Foreign Policy

Another U.S. government site goes down for the count.

China has been the world’s worst environmental offender for years. That could change a lot sooner than expected.

It’s time for Aung San Suu Kyi to stand up for her country’s persecuted Rohingya minority.

President Barack Obama said the United States and its allies must accelerate the training of the Iraqi security forces whose recent setbacks at the hands of Islamic State militants have raised questions about the broader U.S.-led effort to beat back the Sunni extremist group.

To keep up with Democracy Lab in real time, follow us on Twitter and Facebook.  Ilya Lozovsky interviews Tunisian activist Amira Yahyaoui, who delivers a sharp critique of the professional human rights community. Thomas Carothers asks six experts on political change to debate why new technologies have not led to democratic advances around the world. ...

President Obama waded into the eurozone crisis. But a Greek official made clear Athens was no closer to giving in to European demands.

India Bonus: “Bangladesh and India finally give people a nation,” Syed Tashfeen Chowdhury (Al-Jazeera) India and Bangladesh sign agreement to swap border enclaves India and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to swap more than 150 land enclaves along their 4000 km (2485 miles) border, in an attempt to resolve decades old disputes between the two ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson Judge not… The nominee to be the next chief of staff of the U.S. Army might have a Bergdahl problem. The lawyers for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier charged with desertion after walking off his post in eastern Afghanistan in 2009 and then spending five years in ...

Turkey’s dominant Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority in elections yesterday. Though it retains a plurality of seats after receiving 41 percent of the vote, the election marked its worst showing since 2002. Analysts say it may struggle to form a coalition government — already, three opposition parties have said they will ...

In a surprising result, President Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has failed to win a majority in parliament. But can the opposition capitalize?

Germany's Angela Merkel is leading the G-7 charge to seriously reform the World Health Organization. But will her campaign actually lead to lasting change?

The G-7 is gathering to tackle the world’s biggest problems. It’s starting with Ebola -- and what the World Health Organization did wrong.

Washington says China is behind the biggest hack of U.S. government servers in history. Proving the case will be much harder.

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Tariq Aziz predicted he would die in prison, and he was right. Weeks after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the top diplomat in Saddam Hussein’s regime surrendered to U.S. forces and spent the rest of his life behind bars. He died Friday in a southern Iraqi hospital, where he was rushed after suffering a heart ...

On the margins of the Oslo Freedom Forum, Tunisian activist Amira Yahyaoui offers a sharp critique of the professional human rights community.

In Turkey’s Kurdish heartland, the rhetoric is getting nasty before a high-stakes election — and many believe it’s spurring a wave of violence.

After years of kickbacks and backroom deals with drug traffickers, Mexicans are finally talking about corruption.

Why the current U.S. plan to win back Iraq only guarantees the Islamic State won’t be defeated.

A German press report alleges widespread corruption in securing the 2006 tournament.