For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the annual Victory Day celebration on May 9, commemorating the Soviet ...

HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER is a Senior Fellow in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in ...

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

SOPHIA BESCH is Senior Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Between 2021 and 2024, the number of reported recruits rose roughly 1,000 percent, from 36 children to more than 450. This ...

The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the ...

It is not yet clear which group was responsible for the April 22 attack, which killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam, a scenic hill ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

The perception that China likely does not face an existential threat from the United States has had a stabilizing effect on ...

The view that the Chinese leadership was desperate to negotiate a trade deal, to avoid economic pain that could destabilize ...