Foreign Policy

Pakistan Investigators raid offices of fake diploma company Pakistani investigators raided the offices of Axact, a software firm in Karachi that has reportedly been running a network of fake online schools (NYT, BBC). Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ordered the investigation following a report by the New York Times that linked Axact to at ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson The taking of Ramadi 1-2-3. While the Islamic State keeps liberating U.S.-made military equipment from fleeing Iraqi troops, the Air Force and Navy are just as intent on bombing them into component parts. Over the weekend, we again saw the Islamic State in Iraq add to their American-made motor ...

Lebanese news publication NOW has published a trove of documents, including more than 3,000 emails, leaked from the Assad regime. The official correspondence illustrates the Assad regime’s use of public relations firms and pliant journalists to try to maintain its image while coordinating its brutal crackdown in the early months of the war. A subset ...

Why Obama’s bet on letting our friends and enemies slug it out in the Middle East is so risky.

Why did al Qaeda keep two Western hostages in the same compound as a top terrorist leader?

International mega-sporting events like the Olympics have become the playthings of authoritarian regimes. Is it too late to shine the spotlight on human rights abuses?

The Islamic State moves to consolidate power in Anbar.

And anyone should be able to see the U.S. strategy to defeat the Islamic State is failing.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) is a free trade champion. But he's introduced a measure that could kill a massive Asian trade partnership.

A top U.S. military officer said Tuesday that an emerging nuclear deal with Iran will not affect U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Europe, despite strong objections from Moscow.

Laureano Márquez is not just a comedian. A political scientist by training, he uses his act to unmask the absurdity of the Venezuelan regime.

Forget Beijing and Shanghai. The fates of flicks like Age of Ultron will be decided in places like Changzhou.

A reverse-NIMBY protest is sweeping a city in southern China.

Iraq’s Shiites were an oppressed people. Now they are not. So why am I not happy for them, rejoicing in their rise?

From Malaysia to Cuba, how religious minorities use rituals — from simple prayer to violent penance — to create a sense of community.

I am hearing some interesting stuff about the Maryland National Guard’s recent deployment to downtown Baltimore.

A draft law designed to counter the influence of foreign organizations may choke Chinese civil society instead.

I was skeptical at first of his thoughts about writing about certain things causing insomnia, but then remembered that my wife once asked me not to read about My Lai after 4 p.m.

Pakistan Pakistan, Afghanistan sign accord to share intel The spy agencies of Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to carry out “coordinated intelligence operations” against militants operating along the border of the two countries (AP, Reuters). Maj. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa announced on Twitter on Monday that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson Pleased to meet me. What’s there to do for an 11-term congressman who decides that running yet again just ain’t worth it? Open a consulting firm, of course. Buck McKeon, the longtime Republican representative from California and former chairman of the influential House Armed Services Committee, retired in January ...