The Global Atlas

It's been a long week. I wrote two weeks ago about President Obama's new foray into intervention in Iraq, using airstrikes to wea...

Early this morning US time, two 500-pound, laser-guided bombs were dropped by US forces on Islamic State (IS) targets outside of Erbil, Ira...

Three years after the American withdrawal from Iraq, the broken country we left behind has reared its ugly head and threatens to descend in...

In his commencement speech at West Point on Wednesday, President Obama addressed much of the criticism that has been thrown his way recentl...

By Guest Contributor Joel Klein MA Candidate in International Affairs, Boston University Kerry and Lavrov face off Recently my fell...

As the crisis in Ukraine enters its fifth month since ousted President Viktor Yanukovych turned down an EU association deal in November, Ru...

Revelations this week that the US may have monitored the phone calls of up to 35 world leaders have been making significant diplomatic wav...

GHANA—In a remote village hours from Tamale, USAID worker Valerie DeFillipo and her colleagues arrived to a warm welcome from the small ...

While trolling through Buzzfeed’s list of best signs from the July 4th protests and the comments sections of various articles on the NSA/S...

The G8 summit, taking place this week in Northern Ireland, represents a yearly gathering of 8 of the world’s 11 most wealthy countries. Eve...

By Guest-Writer Paul Mitchell Like it or not, the United Nations and the “international community” which it purportedly represents, is ...

On the tail end of Pres. Obama’s trip throughout the Middle East, Secretary of State John Kerry made his first trip to Afghanist...