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How Europeans are responding to their comically obscure new EU overlords.

Not since Tricky Dick's historic 1972 trip to China has any U.S. president's visit been truly groundbreaking -- but both the U.S. and Chinese media strove to add drama to Obama's recent Beijing foray, in radically different ways.

Why Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh should say as little as possible when they meet in Washington next week.

It's the greatest yearly pilgrimage on Earth. But these days, the annual trek to Saudi Arabia's holy sites is as much about politics as it is religion.

What the four-stars are reading -- a weekly column from Small Wars Journal.

As the Pakistani soldiers moved into South Waziristan, they found something almost as valuable as al Qaeda itself: the diaries and books that explain how militant ideology binds the diffuse world of terrorism together.

Whether it's the chaos in Kabul or the malaise in Brussels, today's headlines are often downright depressing. But it's not all doom and gloom in the world. Here are a few of the best reasons we should all give thanks.

The American Bar Association's new president has ties to some of the world's most repressive leaders.

Pakistan's leader is losing grip on his presidency and the opposition parties are waiting in the wings. As his popularity plummets, his political fate -- as well as that of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the nation -- hang in the balance. 

Will ramping up the war in Afghanistan embolden domestic terrorists?

The world is hounding the Afghan president to crack down on corruption and kick out entrenched warlords. I don't think he's going to do it, and I should know: I’m the man who wrote his autobiography.

Meet the unsavory characters surrounding the Afghan president and his new government.

Why an al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil is still a real threat.

If the former would-be veep’s memoir is any indication, the answer is no.

It's not that the massacre occurred. It's that it hadn't occurred before.

The killing may have subsided, but the mess in the Balkans lingers on.

When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race.

How governments concealed the extent of the H1N1 pandemic and risking the outbreak of a virus that's even more deadly.

U.S. Africa Command was launched to controversy and has been met with skepticism ever since. Behind two years of mixed messages, a coherent mission might finally be emerging. Here's what you need to know about the world's next U.S. military hub.

Why a unilaterally declared state might be the only one that Palestine can get.