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Jason Reed / Reuters Is the CIA Ready for the Age of Cyberwar?
Behind the most sweeping reforms in the agency’s history—and their limits
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The Cost of America's Broken Promises
Radovan Karadzic’s story bears a moral for U.S. presidents to come: Beware the empty threat.
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Jim Hollander / Reuters Why Mullah Omar’s Death Could Be a Nightmare for Afghanistan
“If nobody respected the Taliban leadership anymore,” said one analyst, “then you have no one to talk to.”
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Denying Genocide in the Face of Science
The largest DNA-identification project ever conducted provides unprecedented proof of the slaughter at Srebrenica. But 20 years later, too many people claim it never happened.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The United Nations Still Can't Stop Civilian Slaughter
Twenty years after the world body failed to stop two genocides, it’s still struggling with how to enforce its most basic mandate: protecting people.
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Jim Young / Reuters Will Obama's New Hostage Policy Actually Work?
Absent coordination with Europe, the president’s reforms may only help the families of hostages, not the captives themselves.
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Khaled Abdullah / Reuters What the United States Owes Warren Weinstein
The American hostage died in a "signature" drone strike. Those strikes should end.
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Zohra Bensemra/Reuters America's $28-Billion Failure in Pakistan
The U.S. has never convinced the Pakistanis to confront militants. Could that change after the Taliban's school attack?
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Larry Downing/Reuters The Micromanager in Chief
How Syria overwhelmed an overcentralized White House
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Louafi Larbi/Reuters How the U.S. and Europe Failed James Foley
America doesn't negotiate with terrorists. Should it?
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Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Putin's Double Game in Ukraine
The Russian leader is reaching out to his foes with one hand, and striking them with the other.
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thierry ehrmann/Flickr Our Man in Baghdad
How America empowered Nouri al-Maliki—and then failed to keep that power in check.
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Reuters/The Atlantic Bowe Bergdahl and the Impossible Choices Families of Hostages Face
A former Taliban captive explains why we're demonizing the wrong people
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Reuters/Kevin Lamarque How Obama Thinks About Counterterrorism
The president wants to fight militants with partnerships rather than U.S. troops.
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Larry Downing/Reuters The Unraveling of Kerry's Quixotic Bid for Mideast Peace
Will the secretary of state's "strategic patience" with Israeli and Palestinian leaders pay off?
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Brandon Wade/Reuters How America Lost Vladimir Putin
A rupture between Russia and the West, 14 years in the making
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Tim Wimborne/Reuters 7 Million Afghans Just Dealt a Blow to the Taliban
The country's election was full of surprises. Will the euphoria last?
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David W. Cerny/Reuters Can the U.S. Still Confront Autocrats?
On this question, a former ambassador says, "we are kind of confused as a country."
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Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti via Reuters Crimea: The Greatest Challenge to Geopolitics Since the Cold War
As Russia confronts Ukraine, the definition of modern military intervention hangs in the balance.
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Pawel Kopczynsk/Reuters How Should the U.S. Deal With Vladimir Putin?
Russia's wily president has outmaneuvered Western leaders for years. Is Barack Obama next?
