The Global Atlas

A pro-Russian separatists looks at the crash site. Courtesy Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev. When I looked at my computer yesterday afternoon, I c...

Just over ten years ago, the United States was beginning what would be two lengthy military campaigns in the Middle East. On one hand, in ...

China, long seen as the instigator of Asia and, more broadly, wherever the United States is involved diplomatically, is again posturing in t...

The most recent violence in Iraq did not appear suddenly, as if from nowhere. It’s been brewing since the US troop withdrawal in 2011, and ...

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