Ukraine has announced that its troops have taken control of the whole Russian border, and Poroshenko has outlined his plan for peace. Meanwhile, more Russian troops are massing along the border.

Russia can’t tap its massive shale hydrocarbon reserves without Western technology, and that’s led some to speculate that withholding the necessary technical know-how could be a weapon against Putin. But the West looks too divided—and the economic rationale for oil majors to partner with the Russians seems too strong—for us to count this as an arrow in our quiver.

Fearing U.S.-Iran cooperation on a clean-up effort in Iraq, Saudi Arabia is warning foreign powers to stay put and stay out.

China has just added its voice to the amazingly diverse group of countries and people who oppose Scottish independence. Maybe it’s time for SNP to rethink its strategy.

France pays some of the lowest prices in Europe for its electricity, in large part thanks to its massive nuclear energy sector. But a new energy transition law aims to reduce nuclear’s share in favor of wind and solar.

Terrified by the conflagration in Iraq, ordinary Iranians have taken to cheering the Revolutionary Guard—which ruthlessly put down the protests of 2009. As fear sweeps the region, the likelihood of an all-out religious war only grows.

The AMA’s new guidelines for telemedicine are needlessly prohibitive. We need to rethink how we regulate health care in the age of smartphones, instead of importing old regulatory structures.

The conflict in Syria and its increasingly wide-ranging spillover threaten everything going on in the region, including U.S. efforts to forge a serious nuclear deal with Iran.

ISIS and al-Qaeda are CIA plots against Turkey, says at least one well-regarded Turkish journalist and intellectual. Hothouse conspiracy thinking like this helps explain the social and political problems in many countries.

Libya has become the prime destination for smugglers and migrants hoping to make it to Europe, while Italy struggles to deal with the flood of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.