Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima after being captured by the US military. In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Caracas residents awoke  to explosions, low‑flying aircraft, and the realization that the United States was attacking their capital. By sunrise, then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was on a US aircraft, bound for a jail cell in New York. What Washington calls a surgical extraction mission is, for Latin America, a reminder th

The sun sets on Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland and home to 1.2 million people. The city, largely rebuilt after being destroyed by the Barre regime, has made considerable progress but faces serious challenges due to limited access to foreign capital. Somaliland is a relative beacon of stability and state-building in a region where violence and poverty have become the norm, despite decades of foreign aid and intervention. The success of Somaliland stems  from its rejection

Burundi peacekeepers prepare for next rotation to Somalia. For decades, international policy toward Somalia has been framed around the single objective to defeat  Al‑Shabaab, an al-Qaeda aligned terrorist group that emerged from Somalia’s civil war and has fought the Somali government and international peacekeeping forces since the mid-2000s. From mass casualty bombings to attacks  on aid workers, the group’s violence poses a profound threat  to Somali civilians and instituti

Residents flood the iconic La Rambla to protest overtourism and its effect on their home city of Barcelona, Spain. On July 6, 2024, an unexpected splash of water punctured  the postcard image of a sunny day in Barcelona. Around 2,800 anti-tourism protesters filled the city’s streets, hoisting  “Tourists Go Home” banners and aiming  plastic water guns at visitors dining along the crowded boulevard of Las Ramblas. What appeared at first to be a theatrical stunt quickly drew  in

Obama and Medvedev sign the Prague Treaty, 2010. On February 5, 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between Russia and the United States expired  after sixteen years of operation. The treaty, modeled after previous arms deals dating back to 1991, limited  the number of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles to 700 and the number of nuclear warheads to 1,550. The deal also placed  restrictions on Russian submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). The

A U.S. banknote. While families gathered outside to watch fireworks at the end of our block every Fourth of July, my family stayed indoors and watched them on TV. The sharp cracks of the fireworks reminded my parents of the bombings they encountered during the Vietnam War. Growing up as a child of Vietnamese refugees, I heard my parents’ stories of bombs dropping at midnight and families rushing into basements to escape the impact. It has been fifty years since April 30, 1975

Swarms of students unite in a peaceful protest, calling for an end to long-standing government corruption and impunity in Chitwan...

U.S. Coast Guard personnel patrol and practice boarding in the Gulf of Mexico. The Trump administration has made  its opinions clear on...

A tribute mural in remembrance of the 75,000 people killed during the El Salvador Civil War and archbishop Oscar Romero, who Salvadorian forces assassinated for criticizing the Salvadorian military’s human rights abuses. Before the rise of President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s failure to address political violence has remained an undeniable and embedded part of its reputation. Despite ending  the Salvadoran Civil War (1972-1992) with the armed leftist guerrilla group Farabund

Trump’s suspension  of the PEPFAR program, despite a limited waiver, has severely disrupted HIV/AIDS prevention and other critical...

President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov shake hands, symbolizing their growing political alignment...

President Trump poses with NATO leaders at the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium in 2018. NATO has been an ever-present security...

Trudeau rebuffs Trump’s trade talk criticism US President Donald Trump faced  ridicule for his impulsive proposal to buy Greenland during...

Nestled in the northwest portion of Gwangju, a designated metropolitan city within South Korea’s South Jeolla province, is the...

On August 28, 2024, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced  that the government and banks in Colombia reached an agreement to invest...

As the Russians began to encircle a Ukrainian pocket southeast of Avdiivka, Oleh, a Ukrainian soldier, received this order : "There will...

In the United States, many citizens equate their educational journeys with five-day workweeks, six to seven-hour shifts, a plethora of...

“South Korea is our nearest neighbor and has been judged as the most hostile state,” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared to the...