Why are we at pains to clarify some concepts, including concepts like liberalism? Politics in some of our countries have become so dismal because legitimate and just demands of the people have been met with full-blown warfare by the regimes. These oppressive regimes became parties to a...

Washington is considering how to respond to an Iranian ballistic missile launch that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday, as senators pressed for a strong reaction. "We are now actively considering the appropriate consequences to that...

The European Union must unite in its response to dealing with the huge number of refugees surging into the bloc or else it will fail, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday. Faced with an expected influx of around one million refugees this year alone,...

The Russian man beheaded as a spy by the Islamic State group was a moderate Muslim who had rejected attempts by militants to recruit him to fight in the Middle East, his adoptive family told Reuters on Friday. A video posted online by Islamic State this week showed a man in an...