A single day's armed attacks reflect the intensity of the Islamic State war and are an augur of more to come.
The UK's military focus is shifting to remote-control warfare using armed drones. But the move is surrounded by a wall of secrecy.
A Vatican document links a hot planet to world poverty and the need for change. Its immediate impact may be on the United States presidential race.
Does security mean defence: tanks and barbed-wire fences? Or can it mean building relationships, confronting inequalities and recognising each other's humanity?
The resilience of Islamic State a year after its breakthrough makes an escalation of the current war inevitable.
It seems obvious that human rights must be compromised to guarantee security in the face of armed violence. Obvious but wrong.
The United States military at last shows some awareness of how hard the current conflict will be, and how deep it will have to go.
The five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended without any agreed commitments, unbalanced as ever between the nuclear-armed states and the rest. Time to change the agenda.
The story of a Pashtun hero of peaceful struggle needs to be told, now more than ever. An original new book does just that.
It may be understandable that the UN should clutch at any straws to address the miasma in Libya. But Morocco shouldn’t be one of them.
Islamic State's takeover of Ramadi and advance on Palmyra show that the options facing Washington in Iraq-Syria are ever narrowing.
How do young recruits to Islamic State from the west see their campaign? A fifth personal communication from inside the group.
