Putin’s threat of violence is triggering an appeasement reflex across European capitals: Slovakia’s Fico says EU sanctions on Russia should be lifted.

Squeezing search engines to subsidize news companies will make no one better off.

Turkey has sent tanks and special forces into Syria, ostensibly to punish ISIS, but perhaps more importantly to halt the Kurds. And neither the U.S. nor Russia are complaining about it.

An old lesson for human rights activists: when world order breaks down and refugee flows grow, compassion tends to shrink.

Obama’s passion for democracy in the Sunni world and his tolerance of repression in the Shi’a world both haven’t led to much in the way of progress toward either stability or democracy anywhere in the region.

The endemic corruption in Egypt’s food ministry would make the Bourbons blush.

Two weeks ago, Putin gave a speech where he pretty much demanded Ukraine’s leaders not be included in future discussions of its fate. The Europeans appear to have given in, at least for the next meet-up.

How a political asylee used his special status in Germany as a springboard for political action and armed operations in Yemen.

As U.S. influence in the region wanes, Turkey and Iran may find enough common ground to beat up on the Kurds.

A social scientist draws a link between young men working out and grim economic prospects.