With Monday’s deal between Russia and the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, Putin has managed to take over a Russian-speaking piece of a neighboring country’s sovereign territory. Sound familiar?

The surprise aerial attack will be seen as a sign of a tacit alignment between the U.S. and the Butcher President of Syria.

As competing governments square off, Libya increasingly looks like it may have broken into pieces that won’t be reassembled.

The Senate’s third-ranking Democrat now thinks Democrats made a mistake in pushing Obamacare through when and how they did. But his reason is odd: that rising health care costs didn’t affect Americans.

China and Russia argue that the West would be hypocritical not to grant them their “spheres of influence.” Here’s why they’re wrong.

Dov Zakheim says Chuck Hagel was this administration’s “sacrificial lamb,” and argues Obama’s foreign policy agenda has been handled “very poorly.”

The Turkish President’s critique of a recent court ruling reveals his authoritarian streak.

Tourism is making a recovery in Egypt, bolstering the Arab world’s third largest economy. But the return to normalcy is threatened by the growing risk of renewed political instability.

Several recent stories show Pope Francis pursuing a reform agenda that is more nuanced, and more in continuity with the work of his predecessors, than many realize.

Russia’s finance minister said that the combination of sanctions and falling oil prices will cost Moscow up to $140 billion a year. Of that, oil prices are by far the bigger factor.