The entire Washington establishment, from intelligence analysts to journalists, was until very recently predicting that Putin wouldn’t be sending troops into Ukraine. Will this crisis rip the blinders off?

Resurgent populist parties are set to make gains in the European Parliament in May. And with their rise, the EU-U.S. trade pact may be in trouble.

President Putin is making his move in Ukraine’s Crimea, and once again the West is caught flat-footed.

Hezbollah, in conjunction with the Syrian Army, just claimed a major victory in an ambush of Syrian rebel forces. Is the Iranian-backed Islamist group winning Assad’s war for him?

Russia is in the process of securing agreements to build military bases in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, some of Latin America’s most autocratic and anti-U.S. regimes.

Two new reports are savaging Germany’s Energiewende as a massive blunder that is costing Germans billions while doing nothing to protect the climate.

Years on, the Syrian civil war is no less thorny than when it began, with various ethnic groups, antagonists, and volatile battle lines. Our series of maps illuminates some of these complicated dynamics.

Ethno-religious violence in northern Nigeria and the Central African Republic is getting worse by the day.

A synagogue in southeastern Ukraine was firebombed last night. It is too early to tell whether this represents an isolated act or a sign of things to come, but unfortunately anti-Semitism is one of the few few things that bind the east and west of Ukraine together.

A top general from the Filipino military is accusing the Chinese Navy of water-hosing Filipino fishermen around the disputed Scarborough Shoal. The Game of Thrones is heating up.