Energy is a weapon in wartime and a key to prosperity in peacetime. As the world moves towards greater adoption of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to ensure that America’s...
Yesterday, the United States’ State Department’s Rewards for Justice program placed a $5 million bounty on Musa Baluku, the emir of the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province in the Democratic Republic...
The United States announced yesterday that it conducted a special operations forces (SOF) raid on a hideout of the Islamic State’s branch in Somalia. During the raid, the SOF troops killed Bilal al-Sudani,...
Meeting with African leaders, Biden avoids the pivotal issues
“We’re fighting the war out of our pickup trucks,” stated a Ukrainian soldier when reflecting on Ukraine’s slowing counteroffensive in Luhansk region. While Ukraine has a large inventory of tanks...
On May 15, 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan. The Soviets, who had been slugging it out for 10 years with Islamist fighters, finally threw in the towel. The withdrawal was immediately hailed...
On Aug. 10, jihadists belonging to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the local name for the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (ISCAP), raided the central prison in the eastern Congolese city of...
Biden resists a serious boycott, hoping to reform the UN from within.
On March 24, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted its second resolution addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both this and the first resolution, adopted on March 2, symbolically demonstrated...
Islamic State emir Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi died during a daring overnight raid conducted by U.S. special operations forces in Idlib province in northeastern Syria on Thursday, according to the...
The evidence doesn’t establish that it’s ‘the existential threat’
It will take an all-out diplomatic blitz to block the director-general’s impending reelection.
The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally
Bashar al-Assad recently celebrated two election victories. In Syria, he claimed 95.1 percent of the vote in his run for a fourth term as president. The government reported that more than 14 million...
The CCP is using its increased U.N. peacekeeping presence to shift international norms about human rights.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reportedly covered up sexual assault allegations involving senior agency officials, while Italian prosecutors are investigating another top WHO figure for making false...
With a bit of history, a few memories, and some lessons
They are key drivers of deforestation and environmental degradation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order on Tuesday detailing new public health measures in response to outbreaks of Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
The ICC was created as a court of last resort for prosecution of the most serious international crimes, in cases where countries were unable or unwilling to investigate themselves. However, the current...