Administration misunderstanding of leverage continues.

History is made by those who show up, and if the U.S. continues to vacillate in Syria, we’ll pass on much of our ability to shape the post-Assad settlement.

EU calls for emergency summit on Monday. Terra incognita, here we come.

Our bills are not just means of exchange, but memorials. Leave Alex where he belongs.

Latest Iran cave renews worries that negotiations have become their own end, and a bad deal is seen as better than no deal at all.

Sub-Saharan Africans are heading to Europe via Libya, making a dangerous but right now very rational decision.

Billion dollar tech startups are more common, but still rare, in a Continent stuck in old ways.

As the latest talks between Greece and its creditors broke down in just 45 minutes, one European official is quoted to have said, “On July 1st, [Greece] will become a disaster zone.”

A Kurdish push in northeast Syria offers hope of linking up different Kurdish pockets into a unified territory.

The increased resemblance of our planning process to the run-up to the Vietnam war needs to give those making the decisions in D.C. pause.