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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent much of this week in Laos, Cambodia, and China in an effort to pressure Beijing to change course in the South China Sea. Returning to Washington on Wednesday, Sec...
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Not so very long ago, during Lebanon’s civil war, the way a person said the Arabic word for tomato was enough to get him or her killed. In at least one instance, Phalangists (Lebanese C...
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The Guantanamo Bay diaspora, on a per capita basis, may be the most widespread in the world. Indeed, as the Obama administration makes a final push towards emptying the detention facility, the number of ...
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Reuters reports that Syrian opposition forces will not attend the Geneva peace meeting unless the United Nations responds to their demands to halt attacks on civilian areas. Although invitations for the ...
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Today is Data Privacy Day, an annual event in which I am — rather proudly — personally invested. Data Privacy Day began with a conversation at my dinner table eight years ago, when Leonardo Cervera Navas...
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During highly-secret negotiations in 2010, Israel offered Syria a land-for-peace proposal. Under the terms, Israel agreed to return the Golan Heights in exchange for specific security guarantees, includi...
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In preparation for the upcoming peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups, set to begin Friday, the United Nations’ special envoy to Syria issued formal invitations for the discussi...
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If there really is another crypto war in Washington, then this week’s podcast features several war correspondents and at least one victim of PTSD.
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This is interesting for folks interested in The Future of Violence—a new report on "Hostile Drones: The Hostile Use of Drones By Non-State Actors Against British Targets." Published by something called t...
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a government-run security checkpoint in the central Syrian city of Homs today. The multiple bombs used in the attack killed at least 20 people an...
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BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon — As I described in the first dispatch “Syria Displaced,” a year ago the Lebanese government all but closed its borders with Syria by changing the requirements so that fleeing viole...
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Twenty-five people were killed in a suicide bombing that shook Cameroon’s Far North region on Monday. The attack, which has been named the most deadly in a series of assaults connected to Boko Haram, occ...
