Less than two weeks after coordinated attacks by Muslim insurgents in Rakhine State, the Myanmar military has responded with a campaign of violence that the UN secretary general has said is tantamount to ethnic cleansing. On Wednesday, Secretary General Antonio Guterres...

During the morning of November 24 the semi-official Anatolia News Agency quoted “Turkish presidential sources” in reporting that “Turkish jets shot down a warplane believed to be a Russian-type SU-24 after it violated the Turkish air space. The incident...

There is a broad consensus that the United States and the West are losing the messaging war against the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and like-minded terrorists.

It is always dangerous to be optimistic about sagacity and proportionality among the policy makers in Pakistan. Yet the ghastly December 16, 2014 slaughter by the Pakistani Taliban of over 145 people—132 school students, 10 of their teachers, three soldiers and...

More than a decade after 9/11, Western forces in Afghanistan are drawing down and the ability of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) to secure their country remains uncertain.

Three primary factors will define post-2014 Afghanistan: security, governance, and the economy. Security is uncertain at best, notwithstanding the optimistic public projections of the U.S. military leaders.

What for years has been seen as the core of China’s most stable relations—economic exchanges with small and developing states on its periphery such as Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar—has now become counterproductive and a source of China’s...

Because Abe need not face another national election until summer 2016, Japan may finally have a stable government for the first time in almost a decade. But will the July 2013 electoral victory embolden him to pursue his nationalist agenda, or will he remain moderate and...

The January 2013 clash in Kashmir emphasizes the need for a radical new approach: the United States should take the lead in changing the formal status of the Line of Control from a temporary boundary to a legally recognized international border.

An objective assessment reveals that India, simply because it is a democracy, will be no less likely than China as a rising power to pose significant challenges to U.S. interests. While Washington has basically gotten its China policy right, a new approach to India is...

Over the last five years, the U.S. drone program has expanded exponentially to Pakistan and Yemen with little public discussion of the number of casualties, global precedent, the transparency of the program, or the effect on militants, diplomatic relations, or public...