"Understanding the Middle East requires more than following current events," Patricia Dlamini explains. "To understand the present, we must also explore the deeper layers of the past--how geography ...

The deeply reported account documents a century of El Paso history through the stories of five families from the region.

Huntington wrote all of this in 1996. Thirty years later, the United States is waging war against the Islamic regime in Iran.

In Russia the official Russian Orthodox Church is an accomplice to the state’s aggression. Kyiv Post speaks to the authors of a new book examining Moscow’s religious-political dynamics.

Nearing 80 years of age, I find myself wondering how my partner, Judy, and I ended up spending so many years in western Europe, especially during the ...

In an irony of history, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are, in a probably unintentional way, operationalizing a principle the UN enshrined twenty years ago: the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

The only U.S. officer to lead PACOM and CENTCOM warns in his memoir that America chases short-term wins over strategy—risking repeated failures in future wars.

America’s top diplomat traveled to Hungary and endorsed that country’s far-right prime minister, who is seeking his fifth straight term in office. Viktor Orban has cracked down on the media, civil ...

Cooling their heels in a Venetian jail in 1755, Giacomo Casanova and the prisoner in the cell above him contrived one of the more imaginative escapes in the annals of criminology. It involved ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NATO officially launched its Arctic Sentry mission on February 11 in a bid to improve the military posture of the alliance in the Arctic region. The move follows recent tensions between NATO allies ...