A single incident in the air war against the Islamic State offers a lesson in its character.
Washington hoped for a clean getaway from the two countries it invaded in the early 2000s. The Taliban, like the Islamic State, has other ideas.
Behind the flux of conflict on the ground in Syria-Iraq, all sides are digging in for a long war.
The international media spotlight follows the US politico-military agenda to the Middle East but potentially transformative developments to the west in Africa deserve much closer scrutiny.
A vast blood-red memorial in London evokes war's victims. Behind it stand the weapon-makers that could create millions more.
The US wants Turkey to join the military effort against Islamic State at Kurdish-dominated Kobane, across the Syrian border—but Ankara’s focus is the Kurds within its own.
The strength of the new jihadi movement is to link ideology and combat experience. The failures of its western enemy add fuel to its cause.
A second letter from an Islamic State adherent operating in the part of Syria controlled by the movement.
Chemical weapons are banned, aren't they? Well, maybe not quite all of them are ...
The world would be a much safer place without nuclear weapons but nuclear-armed states’ belief in the efficacy of “deterrence” continues to stymie progress at the UN.
The International Criminal Court is often presented as "racist" in Africa because of its focus on indictees from the continent. But the problem lies elsewhere.
