On January 5, Bangladesh celebrated the first anniversary of the 2014 general election. The election resulted in victory for incumbent...

Certain moments in history transcend the time and place at which they occur: think the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the release of Nelson...

December 17, 2014: the day President Obama ended the 53-year suspension of diplomatic relations with Cuba, that tiny Caribbean island of...

Civilians in Mexico and the United States have taken to the streets in recent weeks, protesting injustice and demanding reform On...

There are few gay male icons to look up to on the global political stage. But on November 6, the small, yet trailblazing group of gay...

Of all the countries affected by the Arab Spring, Tunisia has long been lauded as the movement’s one success. When Mohammed Bouazizi, a...

Last month, a group of nations led by the United States agreed to extend important negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear program....

The narrative about Islam fed to the American public by the media and politicians revolves around the volatility and violence in the...

A new chapter of Mexican history began in 2006, when former President Felipe Calderón declared war against the country’s powerful drug...

In her radio address to the nation on November 17, 2001, First Lady Laura Bush declared, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for...

Somalia, a conflict-torn nation on the Horn of Africa, has seen over a decade of terror and destabilization at the hands of various...

On September 9, 1999 shortly after midnight, an apartment complex exploded in southeast Moscow, killing 94 inside. This was just one...

Recruitment within terrorist organizations was long considered a homegrown issue, where groups attracted new members within the countries...

A national Pakistani hero, for whom more than a dozen academic institutions have already been named, spent five years under house arrest...

They attacked at dawn, descending on a police patrol in the remote Sukma District of Chattisgarh, a state in central India. Emerging from...

They cross over during the Hajj. Dressed in white like the pilgrims to Mecca, representatives of fundamentalist Islamist organizations...

Burma may be small, but it has withstood the longest ongoing civil war in the history of the modern world. Since its independence from...

There is something rotten in the seas of Sweden. An unidentified swimming object was confirmed mid-November, nearly a month after Swedish...

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced in 2009 by the Special Criminal Court of Peru’s Supreme Court to the maximum...

The 7,000 illuminated balloons winding through Berlin this November 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite...