Iran isn’t just doing well in the nuclear negotiations—thanks in part to U.S. policy, the situation on the ground in the Middle East is going Tehran’s way, too.

A new ruling by a British court may put an end to lavish divorce payments to non-working ex-wives. America, too, needs divorce settlements that better match the times.

A meeting between the Saudi king and Egypt’s president over the weekend shows further consolidation of a Sunni front in the Middle East.

As common core testing hits states, a small but vocal group of parents and students are choosing to sit the testing out—and they have diverse constituencies behind them.

Hatred of Jews keeps getting more popular worldwide. Europe, despite its governments’ efforts to protect its Jewish citizens, is no exception.

Beijing is targeting charities, non-profits, and other civic groups. This could also signal that its persecution of Christians is about to get worse.

A crash in Asian LNG markets could be sending U.S. shale gas to Europe. Putin won’t be pleased.

Brussels mooted the idea of an energy union this week, a policy that would allow it to kill Putin’s divide-and-conquer gas sales strategy.

Indonesia is working hard to attract tourists from the Middle East. This potential Muslim Asian tiger should be on everyone’s list of countries to watch.

Adding insult to injury, Pentagon officials were forced to publicly back off last week’s ill-judged announcement that an attack on the ISIS-occupied city of Mosul was being planned for the spring. Just what is going on inside the Obama administration?