The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that it intends to sell $10.8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with Bloomberg describing the move as designed to send “a message of support” to Gulf allies known to be increasingly critical of the Obama’s administration’s general...

Turkish diplomats scrambled for a second day to contain the fallout from a Washington Post bombshell published late Wednesday night, as journalists published more details surrounding allegations that top Turkish officials – including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan – deliberately burned 10...

At least 59 people were killed in what Reuters describes as a “spate of attacks” on mainly Shiite communities across Iraq on Thursday, the latest in a spike in violence driven both directly and indirectly by fighting in neighboring Syria. The conflict, which has gone on for more than two...

The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan recently doubled down on its intention to go through with a deal that would see Ankara complete a $3.4 billion missile deal with China, despite very explicit expressions of disappointment from NATO and U.S. officials all the way up to NATO Secretary-General Anders...

Hezbollah’s global branding has for decades rested on the core claim that it is a Lebanese organization defending Lebanese interests. The group and its Iranian sponsors sought to characterize Hezbollah as engaging in what they termed “resistance” against Israel, rather than as being a global terror organization operating at the...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) – the Geneva-based non-profit famous for hosting the annual Davos conference – just issued its first-ever Human Capital Index. The goal of the Index is, per a press release published by the organization, to identify “the most successful countries in the world when it comes...