During a Dec. 28 news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted that Russia’s contributions to Syrian...
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan and removed the Taliban from power, thereby eliminating a key nexus of...
Thursday night, moments after the new government was announced, women rushed to social media to denounce the title of a new Ministry of State for the Social...
With the recent signing of the Treaty of Aachen, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have renewed the Franco-German...
As we mark the passing of 14 years since Lebanon tragically lost one of its greatest statesmen in the most heinous manner, we can’t help but recognize that...
For months politicians have complained about the absence of a platform to air their views and grievances.
For over a decade now, we have witnessed more elections and, simultaneously, less democracy.
President Donald Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “red line” that people may have overlooked...
When Kwame Nkrumah, under whose leadership Ghana became the first African country to claim independence in 1957, was overthrown by a military coup in 1966,...
Syria’s Kurdish forces have had an inauspicious start to 2019.
I recently saw an American play in London called “Sweat,” written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Lynn Nottage.
The support from Italy’s populist leaders for the “yellow vest” protests in France is a sad first in the history of the European Union.
There is not a country in the world that is not grappling with the serious health and environmental consequences of their people’s diets. There has to be a...
On Nov. 19, Carlos Ghosn, the board chair and former CEO of Nissan, was arrested at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on suspicion of underreporting income and misusing...
Whoever explained to then-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump what it meant to be president if anyone did neglected to tell him that on occasion a president...
The World Economic Forum in Davos wrapped up last week with new initiatives and approaches in public-private partnerships, which were in the top discussions...
When U.S. President Donald Trump meets again with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month, he will be staging the second act in a comedy of manners that...
It is time for the European Union to rethink its approach to the Brexit negotiations. Unable to reach consensus, Britain is sliding toward a “no deal”...
The recent signing of the Treaty of Aachen invites us to reflect on how the Franco-German partnership’s role in Europe has evolved since the two countries...
In his speech at the American University in Cairo on Jan. 10, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlighted the inherent connection between academic freedom...
The atmosphere at the 2019 World Economic Forum reflected the global picture perhaps more genuinely than in years past, and the painting was not very pretty....
Worldwide, more than 4 billion people are connected to the internet, spending an average of roughly six hours per day on internet-enabled devices and services.
At the current rate of progress, it will take more than 200 years to achieve gender equality and female empowerment at work.
In March 2018, Syrian President Bashar Assad had himself filmed as he drove his car through the rubble-filled streets of Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of...
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history shows no sign of resolving, and Americans wonder what U.S. President Donald Trump and his team are doing.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos has long been the political and business world’s equivalent of the Vanity Fair Oscar party: By invitation...
At the end of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had completed final testing of an “invincible” new hypersonic nuclear-capable...
For 75 years, the World Bank has been at the forefront of development, helping countries make smart investments to prepare their citizens for the future.
The populist revolts in the United States and the United Kingdom have each reached a critical juncture.