In light of recent events, it’s evident the threat of terrorism is growing. Western countries, insulated for so long from the chaos in...

On the eve of the Holocaust, Hitler addressed a gathering of Wehrmacht commanders at his home in Obersalzberg, just a week before the...

The first round of elections for the Majlis, Iran’s national parliament, changed the dynamic for political reformists throughout the...

On March 13, a car bomb exploded in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, killing an estimated 32 people and injuring over 100 others. This attack...

In March 2013, among the overcrowded chaos of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, American psychiatrist Dr. James Gordon watched as...

In August of 2015, the Islamic State brutally destroyed the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, one of many such attacks on cultural...

In 2006, a teenage girl in Saudi Arabia was blackmailed, held at knife point and gang raped by seven Saudi men. As a response to this...

More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in...

It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about...

Trying to stop human-caused climate change is like trying to stop a speeding bus; you need to slow it down first. Carbon dioxide already...

While the Arab Spring uprisings ignited simmering discontent across many nations in the Middle East, Western media was quick to celebrate...

Since the start of 2016, ISIL has fought a sophisticated, multi-front battle for Libyan oil industry infrastructure from its stronghold...

Corruption in Afghanistan may not come as much of a surprise, but the country is far from the only one in the developing world afflicted...

It has become increasingly clear that the effects of the Arab Spring are still reverberating across the Middle East four years after the...

“Climate change was once a bipartisan issue,” according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in an email interview with BPR.  In the...

Since January, an estimated 710,000 migrants and refugees have entered the European Union. This number is about two and a half times the...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a global organization, enlisting followers from around the world to join its fight in...

In 2008, some 85 million people in the Arab world tuned in to watch the final episode of the breakthrough Turkish television show Gümüş....

Amidst the overthrow of governments in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

With a KGB history, a penchant for repressing criticism at home, and a growing tendency for military aggression abroad, Russia’s...