Diplomacy & Crisis News

Following a briefing on Monday on the situation in Mali by UN peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous, the Security Council has stressed that all parties signatory to June’s peace agreement bear the primary responsibility for achieving lasting peace in the country.

Pakistan Suicide bomb near polio center in Quetta kills 16 A suicide bombing outside of a polio vaccination center in Quetta has killed at least 16 people on Wednesday (NYT). According to Syed Imtiaz Shah, a senior official with the Quetta police, 13 of the victims were police officers there to guard polio workers, who ...

Bilateral relations are the most formidable challenge facing the Modi government.

By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley They’re out. Just after dawn broke over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, ten U.S. sailors being held by Iranian forces on Farsi Island got in their boats, and sailed away. The crews of the two Riverine Command Boats — detained Tuesday after sailing into Iranian territorial waters — were ...

Iran has released 10 U.S. sailors who were captured yesterday when their navigational equipment failed and they drifted near Farsi Island, the location of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base. The U.S. Navy personnel were held for several hours and questioned about their intentions, but this morning they were allowed to board their ships and ...

What’s in a name? Pride, honor, and history.

A U.S. fast-attack submarine arrived at Subic Bay on January 12 at an interesting time.

In Thailand and Philippines, it's worth digging into the precise definitions of "terrorism."

Korean Air recently inked a deal with the Korean military procurement agency to mass-produce a new UAV.

Under strain from an influx of asylum seekers claiming to be children, Sweden is now considering instituting mandatory age tests.

Candidates for the U.S. presidency are worryingly ill-prepared to deal with North Korea's provocations.

Analysts are warning of tougher times ahead for the region.

Insight from Lucy Corkin

Bruce Riedel on the forgotten crisis of the JFK administration.

The role of modern airpower in the critical maritime domain

Obama took on Trump and other GOP presidential candidates but conspicuously sidestepped weaknesses in his own foreign policy legacy.

2015 Global Thinker Wai Wai Nu and Fortify Rights executive director Matthew Smith warn that democracy will mean little unless Muslims get a seat at the political table.

It's his final State of the Union.

The Wassenaar Arrangement aims to reduce the supply of spy software for authoritarian states.

Crude oil’s plunge would have been cause for celebration in years past. But falling prices today are hammering many of the states that enjoyed oil-fueled economic boom years.