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But international donors—and Bashar al-Assad—aren't playing along yet.

The Islamic State has a newly expanded geographic focus—and the results will be worse than the original.

In a first since 1945, the country is sending self-defense forces to a non-U.N. mission abroad.

Chinese students marched into Tiananmen Square 100 years ago in a movement that is still shaping attitudes in the country today.

It is time for the United States to start thinking about systemic risk in its next-generation networks.

The Burning Sun investigation has exposed horrors against women—and men getting away with it.

Researchers must stay aware of how easily AI work can be turned to repressive ends.

Fears of crony capitalism in the United States are misplaced.

Iraq’s Yazidis struggle with the future of the children of rape by Islamic State fighters.

The country has assembled one of the largest stockpiles of weapons in the Western Hemisphere. Here’s how to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Britain’s partnership with the United States always depended on its usefulness—and that’s starting to fall off a cliff.

The Sri Lanka attacks should put the region on alert.

Talk of clashing civilizations reveals the racist, and dangerous, lens of the new U.S. statecraft.

As Seoul targets Japanese businesses, hopes that pragmatism would prevail seem all but erased.

The United States is committed to protecting freedom of expression abroad—but in far too narrow terms.

Taking back control sounded good in 2016. It won’t be so easy in the Trump era.

Venezuela’s opposition leader has failed to gain enough military support to oust Nicolás Maduro, and Washington’s policies aren’t helping him.

Why Japan clings so tightly to its traditions—including the monarchy.

Chinese finance is attractive for good, practical reasons.

That’s what the CIA said when it had Osama bin Laden in its sights after 9/11. Instead, America veered off into Iraq, and the result is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who appeared in a new video this week.