“There have been specific initiatives,” Anne-Marie Slaughter said, “but I think [the] most important is the elevation of development.”

If there's not an escape or a successful rescue effort, Western governments whose citizens are held by ISIS have only the options of either a negot...

As Russell comments, these “forgotten kingdoms” remind us of our own ignorance about them and also provide their own eloquent witness in a religiou...

Under Obama, the US has certainly pulled back considerably from the megalomaniac policies of the Bush administration. This reflects a profound war-...

U.S. security officials warn that the United States is at risk of similar attacks to those that occurred in Paris. Attorney General Eric Holder tol...

As the global investor community circles, Egypt has once again become a part of the emerging markets conversation. The real test will be how that f...

Four months later, that strategy is on pause — and its success in doubt.Since mid-September, the U.S. has conducted just three drone strikes in Yem...

Nigerian villages destroyed, hundreds killed

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“It’s just useful when we see today the narrative of conflict to remember that it was actually possible for faiths to coexist quite remarkably,” sa...

Gerard Russell shows in his new book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms that this tradition can in fact be driven back much further to early roots in Baby...

Foreign fighters are travelling to Syria and Iraq on an ‘unprecedented scale’ according to a recent United Nations report, which finds that 15,000 ...

Salafism is an ultrafundmentalist branch of Islam that is particularly prevalent in Saudi Arabia. Salafism is intolerant of what its adherents cons...

Tara Maller shares her insights

Al-Awlaki was an influence on the two Tsarnaev brothers, who are alleged to have killed three people at the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.

The risk a returning fighter poses will depend on the reasons for his or her return, as well as the way he or she is treated once back.

The cartoons of the prophet had become a particular obsession of al Qaeda. In March 2008, Osama bin Laden denounced the publication of the cartoons...

In “Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East,” former British diplomat Gerard Russell documents the...

There have been good studies of individual parts of the process, but Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, Russell’s brilliant and constantly engaging accou...