The world has turned its back on the Nuba people of Sudan. Despite the critical need for food, none of the organisations involved in helping people in dire need have attempted to deliver aid to them.
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After a major defeat in Mosul, Islamic State seems to have suffered a blow that could end its goal of establishing a cross-border caliphate in the Middle East.
The US is doing so with increasing frequency around the world – most recently with Kurdish fighters in Syria. A scholar explains what can go wrong, and why this approach is likely to continue.
The push for accountability in Syria exposes the challenges of international criminal justice.
While the full details of the much-anticipated Trump-Putin meeting are not yet known, it appears Donald Trump gained little while conceding much.
A foreign policy expert takes a look at how the high-profile exchange between the U.S. and Russian leaders went down.
Denial and obfuscation have always been a part of chemical warfare.
US-backed forces in Iraq and in Syria are in the process of rooting Islamic State (IS) fighters out of their strongholds in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. In the case of Mosul in Iraq, the removal of…
Donald Trump’s predecessor once made an empty threat against Bashar al-Assad – and it didn’t end well.
A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines how US and Russian power and interests compare.
Patrice Lumumba had a vision for the DRC. He believed that a lasting peace could be achieved through good will, not rifles and bayonets. The great man’s vision now lies in tatters.
Everyone has forgotten there were almost as many asylum seekers in Europe in the early 1990s as today.
There are many obstacles to successful prosecution, including obtaining evidence in a war zone and using foreign intelligence in court.
Islamic State has destroyed globally-significant sites in Iraq and Syria, but not as wanton acts of destruction. Instead, they are calculated political and religious attacks.
The country’s religion-based power-sharing political system is straining to accommodate hundreds of thousands of new Syrian Sunnis.
The figures have been taken out of context.
Rules imposed after 9/11 and still on the books are getting in the way of delivering aid to conflict zones. In countries like Yemen and Syria, it could mean the difference between life and death.
President Trump’s erratic decision making is strengthening international law by upping the focus on the legality of his actions at home and abroad
For many centuries, Syrian society has included people of many faiths – Sunni and Shi'i Muslims, Christians and Druze. This past is important to know to understand the present.
America’s relations with Russia and China are now mired in angst, uncertainty and mutual suspicion.
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