Tuesday’s terrorist attack in central Istanbul has confirmed Turkey’s precarious position on the frontline of the escalating confrontation...

South Sudan has been hijacked, looted and betrayed by irresponsible and venal leaders and must be placed under international management if the total...

What a difference a war makes. Twelve months ago, Vladimir Putin was on the menu at the G20 summit in Brisbane. Western leaders queued up hungrily...

The Bangkok bombing, the most deadly in Thailand's recent history, poses a major challenge to the military junta that seized power in May last year,...

Like a tragedy unfolding in slow motion, impoverished, landlocked Burundi appears to be slipping inexorably towards another of the apocalyptic crises...

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Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani make an unlikely double act. But as negotiators from the United States and Iran race towards the March 31 finishing...

Jordan's willingness to free a prisoner who helped kill dozens of civilians in return for the release by the Islamic State of a captured Jordanian...

It would be far-fetched to describe the United States' and Britain's long-term relationship with Saudi Arabia as a love affair, although elements of...

The longer the international standoff over Iran's suspect nuclear programme continues, the more dangerous and volatile the situation becomes. All...

Western countries are "at the gates" of a new cold war with Russia, sparked by the Ukraine crisis and a failure to grasp the depth and seriousness of...

The dramatic warning by Turkey that the United States-led coalition will fail to stop Islamic State (Isis) fighters overrunning the strategic Syrian...