[escenic_image id="55211101"]On 13 June 1971, Alexander Haig, then assistant to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, called President Richard Nixon for the daily brief. Nixon’s initial…

[escenic_image id="55209599"]The 19-20 November heads-of-state summit in Lisbon devoted much attention to the alliance’s troubled military campaign in Afghanistan. In the eyes of many, NATO’s failure…

[escenic_image id="55207000"]In just over a month, Southern Sudanese voters will decide if their region should be an independent nation, separate from the government in Khartoum. The 9 January…

[escenic_image id="55206208"]Barack Obama’s political fortunes suffered a devastating blow at the election polls on November 2—and since then, whether on domestic policy or in the international arena…

[escenic_image id="55200282"]The Lebanese civil war that started in 1975 was concluded with the ratification of the Taif Accord in 1989, engineered by construction tycoon and billionaire Rafik Hariri…

[escenic_image id="55198220"]With economic success at home, Turkey’s government has been flexing its muscles on the world stage and Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems likely to win a third term as prime…

[escenic_image id="55198164"]Since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq there have been numerous ethical debates concerning the nature of the US’s involvement in these countries…

[escenic_image id="55192751"]In the early 1980s, Dr. Sima Samar made her debut on the feminist stage, becoming the first Hazara woman to receive a medical degree from Kabul University. But the young…

[escenic_image id="55194060"]A controversial Egyptian television series, Al-Gama’a, was broadcast daily at prime viewing time during Ramadan this year. It depicted the foundation and early…

[escenic_image id="55193031"]In a speech this October at the national conference on “soft war” in Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emphasized that, “there are many interpretations of Islam, but …