Democracy is Drowning in the Maldives
The islands' first democratically elected president is planning a return home, but home may not be welcoming.
The islands' first democratically elected president is planning a return home, but home may not be welcoming.
Five years after its viral video broke the internet, Invisible Children is on the front line of a covert war against the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Before she died in prison, 'Sister Ping' smuggled thousands from an obscure middle school to U.S. shores. Some now wish they'd never left.
South Sudan’s president has outmaneuvered his opponents politically. Now he has carte blanche to crush them militarily.
Chinese authorities speak of terrorism as an ideological problem, but treat it as an ethnic one.
With the passing of Fidel, a young generation of Cubans worries that the nascent rapprochment with the U.S. may be stalled or worse. Some worry that their future is bleak.
France is rolling out an experimental center to de-radicalize homegrown extremists. The problem is no one really knows how to stop a terrorist before he picks up a gun.
Ebola is not over. Neither is its stigma.
Rwanda wants to create a culture of entrepreneurship. But can it really be done by decree?
In Assad-controlled regions of Syria, the Lebanese group is making friends, influencing militias, and developing a new model of asymmetric warfare.
Meet the khat-chewing, rifle-toting volunteer army that forms Kenya’s first line of defense against the Somali terrorist group.
Impoverished young men have menaced the city of Zinder with rapes and murders. Now Boko Haram wants to turn their ultra-violence into a weapon of war.