North Korea needs international life support aid again. So, once again, North Korea waves sabers and calls for death.
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Syria’s Nusra Front and al-Qaeda in Iraq have merged, making it likely that US and EU aid to anti-Assad rebels will inadvertently strengthen Sunni terror groups in the Syrian–al-Qaeda civil war to come.
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When it comes to environmental destruction in China, recent headlines about air pollution in major cities tell only part of the story.
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Richard Royal wrote to us objecting to the representations made by Michael Weiss in his recent article about the Conservative Friends of Russia. We invited Mr. Royal to pen a rebuttal.
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The UN’s special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea is only the latest to urge the body to take action against the regime’s widespread abuses and crimes. But will anything really be done?
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The UN moved last week to reappoint Syria—the same government it accuses of war crimes—to oversee a special human rights post. Is the UN intentionally trying to discredit itself?
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Western countries can help North Africa's long term democratic and economic prospects by trusting that region's citizens will hold their elected leaders accountable in future elections, and not play favorites in the near term.
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As North Korea’s systemic human rights abuses get a hearing at the UN, Curtis Melvin explains how he has used the latest satellite images of the country to report the expansion of the regime’s gruesome gulags.
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As Brunei takes over ASEAN's rotating chairmanship from China-friendly Cambodia, the prospects for a resolution of China's overreaching territorial pursuits could get interesting.
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Egyptian President Morsi vigorously condemns what he considers Jewish-instigated violence. But is Morsi blind to violence within his own religion?
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While global leaders remain fixated on North Korea's missile program and its growing capacity to launch an intercontinental nuclear attack, the Kim regime inflicts horrors on millions of its own people.
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Though complicated, the postwar expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia has been a blot on modern Czech history—and, as presidential hopeful Karel Schwarzenberg discovered, taboo to discuss.
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When Cambodia applies for Western aid, it gets an earful about the country's human rights violations—which are dire and getting worse. Funding from Beijing carries no such baggage.
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Nearly half of impoverished Laos’s children are stunted due to malnutrition. NGOs are doing their part, but the country’s corrupt leaders seem more interested in a dam project to line their own pockets.
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A new Cuban law that allows its citizens to travel abroad will likely create a surge of travel—and political refugees—to the US. And Washington appears oblivious to the consequences.
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President Morsi is a lonely man these days. As protesters rally against him, he’s depending on a security apparatus he barely trusts—and that might not trust him either. Will the center hold?
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The recent Gaza fighting—and the concessions Israel granted to end it—have shown once again that the terrorist group Hamas holds nearly all the cards in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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After the Gaza cease-fire, the US-Israeli relationship looks stronger, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority look weaker, and Egypt remains an unknown quantity.
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An annual rate of seven million abortions—most of which are likely forced by the state—is just one of the horrors of China's ghastly one-child policy. Europe has a different problem.
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Despite the negative ripple effects austerity measures have on economies, the European Union is still relying on such policies as it enters its third year of debt crisis.
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Bacevich, Diehl, Hayden, Perle, Rieff, Wolfowitz, and others debate the lessons of Iraq. Juan de Onis on Latin America’s divide, Riviera on China’s pollution, and Michael Zantovsky on “Iron Curtain.” Plus Scottish independence, and more...
