Rosh Hashanah is a special festival that celebrates Jewish New Year. It literally means 'head of the year' and it is a celebration of the creation of the world and marks making a fresh start. The…

At the end of May, Prime MinisterBenjamin NetanyahushockedIsraelby calling for new national elections after he failed to form a governing coalition. Commentators dubbed the unprecedented…

In its 2018 National Defense Strategy, the Trump administration announced that “inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism,” is the United States’ main national security challenge. The world’s…

It has been nearly a decade since Libya’s leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was deposed as a result of a popular uprising sparked by similar demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt. After an initial burst…

Iran broke new ground this week by breaching the JCPOA’s limits on enriching uranium. In so doing, it inspired a backlash from the White House, Senate Republicans, and EU foreign ministers. Each…

Turkey’s fraught relationship withthe United Stateshas been in a downward spiral for years. Divided over an ever-lengthening list of issues, from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s…

As cars idled bumper to bumper on one of Hong Kong’s busiest highways, a gaggle of young people clad in black darted into traffic. Cars swerved. Buses braked. Hundreds, then thousands, of teens…

In the 60-plus years since the countries of sub-Saharan Africa started becoming independent, democracy there has advanced unevenly. During the Cold War, many African states turned into Soviet-…

On June 30, 1989, a military junta led by Colonel Omar Al-Bashir removed the democratically elected Sudanese government headed by Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. The…

With each passing day,the United StatesandIrandraw each other deeper into conflict. So far, they have stopped short of war. But the likelihood of an armed conflict increases with every additional…