Armed groups have proliferated in the Iraqi security vacuum, in some cases supported by Iran. After three US soldiers were killed, the Americans have hit back. How will the militias react now?

With an election now looking likely at some point this year, how are the two candidates likely to approach 2024, and can anything stop what looks like Labour's inevitable victory?

For hundreds of years, Morocco has been a key link in the world maritime order between the global north and the global south. It is now turning its attention to the West.

From Ukraine to Russia, South Africa to India and Taiwan to the US, elections gain added significance in a turbulent world

No stranger to a world in flux, the West's alliance has grown since the Cold War. It has fresh challenges from an old foe and a new global power to address.

Bretton Woods set up global financial institutions in 1945, but making them fit for the modern world is overdue. Now is the time to start by speeding up and evening out the main means of help.

Narratives rooted in violent history are being used to shape our present, leading to a future shrouded in uncertainty

Both Moscow and Kyiv have several moves left to alter the war's outcome. The ability to do so largely depends on the commitment of resources and the will to fight.

The deep divisions within British politics in 2024 suggest it will add to the instability of the Western alliance as it grapples with major challenges from mass migration to the Ukraine war.­

In election-year India, the ruling party knows that discontent among the poor is a threat to its chances