The world continues to grow more violent and disorderly. According to CFR’s annual conflict risk assessment, American foreign policy experts are acutely concerned about conflict-related threats to U.S ...

What the Gulf crisis reveals about concentrated energy risk, and why the investment case for the transition has become harder ...

What is happening in Syria? When the civil war ended in Syria in 2024, the country entered into a period of transition and recovery. Nearly a million former refugees have returned to Syria, and 1.9 ...

For more than a decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist has accurately predicted 85-95 percent of the countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian ...

Sudan is facing one of the largest humanitarian disasters in recent history. Thousands are dying in a conflict that’s been burning for decades. Treaties have been signed and alliances have shifted, ...

President Donald Trump speaks about Israel, Lebanon, and Iran in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2026. As the Middle East conflict drags on, so do its political and economic ...

For the past week, oil and gas traders have watched as a long-feared “worst-case scenario” played out in energy markets, said Bloomberg. Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a ...

The conflict in Sudan is evolving as Ethiopia becomes more involved. Regional tensions are rising and the situation is becoming more complex. Multiple interests are now at play. The outcome remains ...

27 February 2026 - For millions of young people living through war and displacement, the end of active violence in their immediate surroundings rarely equals the end of fear, stress and grief. The ...