The war on drugs in México has been a campaign marred by setbacks, failures, and tragedy. As a response to the growing violence from organized crime in the country, president…
The 20th Chinese Communist Party’s Congress, held from Oct. 16 to 22, will likely go down as a major turning point in Chinese modern history and foreign policy. The Congress…
Last week Turkey launched a large scale military assault against a Syrian militia largely comprised of Kurdish fighters. The attack comes only days after President Donald Trump announced the retreat of U.S. troops from northeast Syria, where U.S. backed-Kurdish forces were instrumental in the defeat of the Islamic State and the further containment of IS fighters. Some call the retreat and subsequent indifference to Turkey’s attack from the largely Kurdish region an outright betrayal of the Kurds.
Since last August, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims left Myanmar to take refuge in Bangladesh. The issue here is very complex. The Rohingya makeup about 4 percent of…