As a war reporter in the 1990s, I witnessed the world’s failure to prevent two genocides—and the struggle to hold ...

In September, the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution establishing the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to curb violence and restore public order in Haiti. The GSF will transform the ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at divisions at COP30 surrounding fossil fuels, Israeli settler violence in ...

But rights groups warn that the president’s anti-free speech crusade reached an alarming and dangerous new level this week, ...

One snowy day in February 2017, I visited Sokolniki Park in Moscow, where a few hundred Russian women were protesting the ...

The highlights this week: Weekend elections in Chile and Ecuador test the power of the region’s ascendant right, city governments have a moment in the sun at COP30, and the United States rolls back ...

Last week, after years of drought and reduced rainfall and snowfall, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s ...

After the exchange of hostages and prisoners, Israel and Hamas now move to the daunting task of establishing a lasting peace.

South Africa landed on the FATF’s gray list in February 2023 due to glaring deficiencies in its protections against money laundering and terrorism financing. The listing followed the hearings and ...

They’re incapable of flight but great for starting fights—including international culture war skirmishes. A few hundred ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a new page in Syria ’s playbook, Brazil hosting the U.N. Climate Change ...

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a Senate-passed bill late Wednesday to fund the federal government ...