Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out. Iraqi border posts along the Syrian frontier are coming under attack, and Syrian...

This week Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a landmark telecommunications bill designed to boost competition in Mexico’s phone and television industry.  This has led to the generalized perception that  the new law — which allows regulators to make dominant...

  The Global Peace Index for 2013 shows how world peace has changed over time - unsurprisingly, the violent conflict in Syria has had a big impact on the findings The world has become a less peaceful place according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. In their annual report, the...

The National Mall was filled with a grisly but starkly beautiful reminder that atrocities are happening around the world. Visitors to Washington, D.C. this weekend saw a National Mall transformed into a mass grave. It took more than 1,000 volunteers, clad all in white, more than four...