In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would...

A dictator who died serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity in Argentina. The first former head of state to fall subject to...

The Syrian civil war that began more than seven years ago has resulted in the deaths of countless innocents: estimates range from a few...

President Yahya Jammeh told Gambia he would rule for a billion years. But on December 1, 2016, the Gambian people decided otherwise. In a...

When the residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, took to the streets at midnight on July 9, 2011 to celebrate the country’s...

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

The Syrian civil war has been marked by crimes against humanity so undeniable that they could have leapt into existence from a textbook,...

Chris Murphy, the junior U.S. Senator from Connecticut, talks to Brown Political Review’s Henry Knight. Sen. Murphy voted against this...

On September 11 of this year, the American public awoke to news headlines about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York...

In 2000 Chalmers Johnson, a professor of history at UC San Diego, famously co-opted the CIA term “blowback” in order to explain the...

As a rhetorical tactic, establishing a ‘red line’ is pretty impressive. It displays strength by implying that you know both your current...

In discussing the Middle East, media outlets and political pundits alike can’t seem to avoid lame catchphrases, which reduce the complex...

In reading the New York Times yesterday, it struck me that following the news about Syria is becoming almost unbearably frustrating. More...

As a columnist who writes exclusively on MENA (Middle East/North Africa), I’m just going to state the obvious: I don’t usually end up...

Earlier this week, President Obama officially recognized the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the...