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Reuters Has International Intervention Helped or Hurt Bosnia?
The answer matters for world leaders faced with conflicts in countries like Syria and Ukraine.
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Hamid Khatib/Reuters Is Syria Now a Direct Threat to the U.S.?
The jihadist-influenced militancy nurtured by the civil war appears to be spreading—just as diplomacy in Geneva falters.
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Denis Balibouse/Reuters The Syria Talks Are Doomed Without Iran
Excluding Bashar al-Assad's most important ally won't halt a widening proxy war.
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Reuters/Kevin Lamarque Democrats Could Wreck Obama's Biggest Foreign-Policy Success
Derailing Iran negotiations means risking another military conflict in the Middle East.
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Reuters Gates, Obama, and Ducking Difficult Choices in the Middle East
The former defense secretary's new memoir highlights the president's deeply contradictory approach to the region.
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Reuters How Partisan Bickering Sabotaged America's Middle East Policy
Fights in Washington have taken priority over stabilizing the region and securing the United States.
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Reuters/Osman Orsal Pictures That Change History: Why the World Needs Photojournalists
It's never been easier to take photos—or harder to capture ones that matter.
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Reuters The Threat of Genocide in the Central African Republic
Will the international community respond?
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Reuters Why Economics, Not Military Might, Is the Future of Foreign Policy
From Kiev to Kabul, the promise of prosperity is winning hearts and minds.
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Reuters John Kerry Has a Long Way to Go to Reshape the Middle East
We're now closer to diplomatic solutions on the Iranian nuclear program, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Syrian civil war. But the really hard stuff remains unresolved.
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Reuters/Muzaffar Salman An Epidemic of Journalist Kidnappings in Syria
Reporters are being abducted at an unprecedented rate—and their captors aren't even making demands anymore.
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Reuters Why the U.S. Should Wage Its Pakistani Drone War in Public
For the last decade, America has been getting a raw deal: covert strikes in exchange for serving as the Pakistani military's punching bag.
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Reuters A Year After Sandy, New York’s Inequality Is Still Growing
Bill de Blasio, the soon-to-be-mayor of New York, made the rich-poor gap the core of his campaign. He faces a city still torn in two by the aftermath of the hurricane.
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Our Fear of Al-Qaeda Hurts Us More Than Al-Qaeda Does
The government's ever-expanding culture of secrecy is excessive, unnecessary, and destructive.
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Reuters Sanity Caucus vs. Kamikaze Caucus: A Cheat Sheet for the GOP Civil War
With a budget conference forming and a new debt-ceiling hike coming early in 2014, there's more strife to come. Here is who to watch.
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Reuters Paul Ryan's Chance to Reinvent Himself—and Save the Nation
His proposal to the shutdown impasse isn't perfect, but it could provide a way out and deal the Tea Party a body blow in the process.
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Reuters How the Broken Media Helped Break the Government
There's a direct connection between the shutdown and hyperbolic, partisan journalistic outlets driven more by profits than the search for truth.
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Reuters The Six Things That Will Determine Obama's Success With Iran
The president's historic phone call with Rouhani could be a turning point -- or just another failed attempt at diplomacy.
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Reuters Why Obama Should Meet With Rouhani
The president has a rare opportunity to negotiate with a moderate rather than one of Iran's conservative hardliners.
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Reuters Does Syria Represent Obama's Final Pivot Away From the Middle East?
The decision not to intervene may signal a broader strategic shift away from the region.
