[escenic_image id="5547374"]Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has a difficult political history. Since its independence, ethnic and sectarian violence has complicated the tenuous…

[escenic_image id="5526375"]Turkey has astonished many observers with dazzling new directions in its foreign policy. Today, Ankara is considering visa-free travel with Syria and Libya and holds…

[escenic_image id="5544141"]Since 9/11, the eagerness of the US to tackle militancy in Pakistan has traditionally clashed with the position of the Pakistani army. Pakistani authorities always had…

[escenic_image id="5543766"]As the US prepares to send another troop surge to Afghanistan, hinting that a military solution stands to offer Afghanistan stability, Kai Eide has voiced a dissenting…

[escenic_image id="5542814"]Americans think they won the war in Iraq. Scratch that: a significant number of American officials, media pundits, and politicians have taken it upon themselves to…

[escenic_image id="5542272"]America’s top expert on Iran is the only serving US official to have had a face-to-face meeting with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the famously aloof…

When an ideal stands in the moral high-ground as if it were the only one worth fighting for, the notion of the bigger picture can be lost. This might just be the case with the pursuit of justice by…

[escenic_image id="5538492"]Rashad Hussain, a second-generation Indian-American and Muslim, was born in Wyoming and raised in Texas. At a young age he became very interested in politics. As…

[escenic_image id="5535338"]Balloting so far has been marked by acute sectarian polarisation in Shiite-Sunni allegiance. The formation of a cross-sectarian coalition government will ultimately…

[escenic_image id="5533397"]When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to the Persian Gulf in February, high on her list of priorities was gaining support for a new round of sanctions…