A satirical op-ed about the merits of invading Disney's Agrabah.

Chris Hassaan Francke is annoyed that “F*ck ISIS Punch,” which comes with an optional bacon garnish, is his most famous invention.

Islamic State militants in Raqqa, the group’s operations center in Syria, are succumbing to the flesh-eating parasitic disease leishmaniasis.

Texans, lawmakers and “friends of Afghanistan” gathered Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill to honor Cold War-era mavericks Charlie Wilson and Gustav “Gust” Avrakotos, both dead, together with the very much still-alive Joanne Herring.

Intensive multi-day coverage of events surrounding the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, January 2015.

The Australian government has an elaborate campaign, including a 600-page bureaucratic handbook, to build its international image using koalas.

As a blizzard brought snow to Moscow on Thursday, the usual Central Asian migrant street-cleaners were missing — the latest sign of the Russian economy’s woes.

The self-styled Muslim cleric at the center of the Sydney siege is eccentric and extreme, but apparently not affiliated with ISIS, according to multiple Australian outlets.

Régis Debray, a French philosopher and political activist, has demanded that the United Nations General Assembly vote to move the organization’s headquarters to Jerusalem, “the cradle of the world’s civilizations,” calling New York a seat of Western economic and military hegemony.

A Wonkistan discussion of food and privilege.  View on YouTube.

Why Arabic phonetics makes transliterating Qaddhafi’s name so complicated. View on YouTube.