United Nations
Washington’s Mixed Signals About Core Issues Encourage Islamist Groups to Expand Their Influence and Test Boundaries
Greece Increasingly Punches Above Its Weight at the United Nations and on the World Stage
A U.N. Resolution on Gaza Concedes That a State of Palestine Was Not Legally Worthy of Recognition by France and Britain
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Seeks to Repatriate Its Charges, but It Has Never Faced a Problem like Al-Hol
It Is the Only Rational Posture for a Country That Has Been Fighting an Existential Ideological War with Hamas for Decades
Where Are the U.N. Officials Who Argue They Cannot Be Part of an Organization That Increasingly Fuels Blood Libel and One of the World’s Oldest Hatreds?
Neither the State Department nor Other Foreign Ministries Should Accept the Fiction That U.N. Mandates Are Necessary or Effective
Fear and Lack of Access Explain Why So Many Accept Hamas Health Ministry Statistics
UNHCR Is Among the U.N.’s Most Irreplaceable and Cost-Effective Programs
From Assad’s Palace Perched on Mount Mezzeh, He Could See East Ghouta, a Sprawling Suburb of Multistory Apartment Buildings, and a Slum Which More than a Million Sunni Arabs Called Home
The Remnants of the Still Healthy and Free ‘West’ Today Lie East of the Former Iron Curtain: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovenia
Ankara Undermines Its Credibility When It Relies on Faulty Legal Arguments and Instigates Political Conflict
European, U.S. and U.N. Officials Should Signal to Tufan Erhürman, the Newly Elected President of Northern Cyprus, That He Can Make a Fresh Start
The Guardian Council Approved New Laws Stiffening Punishments for Espionage and Collaboration with Israel or ‘Hostile States’
Iran Has Finally Ratified the Combating the Financing of Terrorism Convention, but with Stipulations That Won’t Satisfy International Watchdogs
European Union Sanctions—Covering Oil and Petrochemical Equipment, Banking, Transport, and Insurance—Also Would Be Restored
Italy and Spain Should Direct Their Warships to Halt Escort Operations Inside Israel’s Territorial Sea
The 1980s Taught Washington a Brutal Lesson: Short-Term Partnerships with Men of Violent Conviction Can Metastasize Into Long-Term Threats
Unlike Gaza, Somaliland Has a Long History as an Entity and Can Actually Trace Its Rulers Back Centuries
He ‘Is a Leader Without a Future, and Many Inside the Regime Know It,’ One Iranian Influencer Said of Iran’s Predicament and Humiliation