France has established a standing force in Western Africa to counter terror threats. That’s likely to be helpful to both the region and the United States.

In response to a 2003 strike, then-President Hugo Chávez fired some 18,000 employees from Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm. The effects of that decision are still visible in the country’s flagging oil production.

The tragedy of MH17 should be a wake-up call to Western leaders to stop dragging their feet and take decisive action now.

Libya’s Foreign Minister entreats the U.N. Security Council for non-military aid, warning that the country is dangerously close to becoming a “failed state.”

ISIS has ordered Christians in Mosul to convert or pay a tax—or die. Christianity in the Middle East is becoming increasingly imperiled.

They both resent American power, and they both have Marxist roots. But can China and the Latin American lefties play nice? Negotiations may be bumpier than expected.

The International Energy Agency’s chief economist warned that “thirty million jobs are in danger” in Europe, as petrochemical manufacturers eye greener grass in shale-rich America.

China has eased its one child policy, but few people are taking advantage of the change. Without the expected baby boomlet, the country’s demographic problems look even more serious.

President Obama and Europe’s leaders must take this opportunity to explain to their publics that Ukraine’s choice of a pro-Western orientation deserves our support simply because it is in our interest.

UK Cabinet shuffles are normally anodyne affairs. PM David Cameron’s latest move, however, has been a bloodbath.