The knife-wielding terrorists that have been appearing in our social media newsfeeds with alarming regularity over the past months do not...

In Libya, the Islamic State yet again rears its head. Though the opening of this new frontier does mark a threatening expansion of ISIL,...

On December 17, 2014, Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United...

The notoriously hermetic and isolated country of North Korea closed its borders to tourists last fall due to concerns about the threat of...

Seven years ago, 18-year-old Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez Aldana was rushed to the hospital in her home country of El Salvador. Vasquez had...

As Alexis Tsipras and his victorious Syriza party try to make good on the promises that put them in power, world leaders are struggling...

Shockingly, Beverly Hills is no longer the place plastic surgeons want to be. That dubious honor instead goes to Dubai, the young...

On January 25th, Greece headed to the polls and gave an astounding victory to Syriza in what might constitute the biggest slap in the...

Since its establishment in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has heard 22 cases and indicted 36 individuals, all of them from...

Half a century ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a decision that still haunts the American memory today. In February 1965, Johnson...

On most days, Central is Hong Kong’s swarming business district: Thousands of suits and pencil skirts transform its streets into a sea of...

On December 14, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda, announced the shelving of the Sudan case, and...

The Human Rights Watch World Report recently condemned Australia’s “draconian new policies” towards asylum seekers and refugees. The...

Call it the luck of the Irish. Shares of Dublin-based airline Aer Lingus plummeted this February on speculation that the Irish government...

Since President Obama’s much-publicized visit to India in January, analysts have heralded the advent of strong US-India relations. The...

Perhaps the greatest lesson to emerge from the saga of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United States Congress...

On February 9, the world was shocked by revelations of a wide array of illicit and questionable activities connected with bank accounts...

In early February, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a recognized terrorist organization, released a video that depicted...

On February 16, conflict in Ukraine escalated as pro-Russian rebels ignored the internationally brokered cease-fire determined after “16...

2014 was a tough year for the People’s Republic of China and its claim over territories. Last spring, the terrorist attacks in Xinjiang...