Whether Kobani falls or stands, it has become a defining moment of nationhood and identity for Syrian and Turkish Kurds.

Egypt’s hard-line Islamist party is looking for female candidates. There’s only one catch: They can’t be seen or heard.

Aspiring African American homeowners are still deep in the recession. From 2013 to 2014, foreclosures increased by 50 percent in Maryland’s Prince George’s County, which is majority black. The erosion of the black middle class, just as it was starting to come into its own, is one of the greatest social policy failures of American history.

Earlier this year, Keystone was the hottest energy policy debate in town. Why has attention to the pipeline project faded in the run-up to November’s midterm elections?

Are U.S. combat operations unduly hampered by legal oversight?

Putin denied reports that the Russian government’s budget is being threatened by dropping crude prices, but the data tells a different story. Petrostates around the world are watching a bearish oil market with increasing concern.

Putin and Poroshenko have separately announced that they worked out the bones of a deal for getting gas flowing into Ukraine again for the winter. That’s good news for beleaguered Ukrainians, but it’s certainly not a win for anyone but Vladimir Putin. He is getting what he wanted all along, a lever he can pull on and get western money.

“It is hard to believe, but there are worse shortages in Venezuela than there are in Syria.”

Two German hostages are safe from beheading after Germany paid their ransom. But European ransoms are now a huge source of funding for terrorists.

Japan released the figures on how many Russian air incursion there have been over its northern region in the last six months. The numbers are way up, even as the Kremlin looks to Tokyo as another potential gas buyer.