British citizens are attempting to travel to Syria to fight. The UK, like the rest of the West, can’t afford to ignore the civil war spilling across borders in the Middle East and beyond.

Puerto Rico’s state-owned energy company is in dire straits, and creditors are getting ready for a tough fight.

The regional struggles in Asia are just getting started, and there are no easy or obvious off-ramps. U.S. policymakers focusing on the meltdown in the Middle East should not lose sight of this other ticking time-bomb.

Who lost Iraq? The longest-serving American official in Iraq paints a detailed and nuanced, but ultimately damning picture of how bad U.S. policy helped the country unravel.

If Narendra Modi’s landslide victory was in large measure due to the failure of the preceding Singh government, he now faces a big challenge and a huge opportunity. Here’s how he might proceed on both the economic and foreign policy fronts.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is amping up his campaign against corruption, as the highest-ranking general ever to be ensnared is accused of bribery. This is another sign that the country is battening down the hatches.

Putin has changed tacks since announcing last week that he’d asked the Russian parliament to revoke his mandate to send troops to Ukraine.

Egypt’s military dictatorship has undertaken one of its first difficult reforms by slashing energy subsidies in this year’s budget. Though the cards are stacked against them, if they pull this off and set Egypt on a more sustainable course, history will do more than dismiss them as a pack of thieves.

Fledgling projects seek to fight Islamic extremism by introducing critical thinking and the scientific method to Arab societies. They may already be influencing education and government-run media.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, published 66 years ago this week, is indeed shocking, but as much for its simplistic and pessimistic account of inherent human evil than for its courage in facing up to reality.