A review of Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism.

This year's Eurovision Song Contest was a microcosm of regional dynamics.

This is not an environment in which fraternal reconciliation can flourish.

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

Realism and religion both acknowledge the limits and dangers of humanity's violent tendencies.

Russia’s growing presence in Syria involves a parallel war of information, with the Kremlin dead-set on controlling an increasingly unwieldy narrative.

A report issued by the State Department Thursday repeatedly refers to sex reassignment surgery in Iran as “gender-confirmation surgery.”

Documents published Friday by Wikileaks show that Osama bin Laden's son Abdullah tried unsuccessfully to obtain a death certificate for his father's 2011 death.

Among the historical precedents set by Thursday’s announcement of a tentative basis for a nuclear deal with Iran, government-run television stations in the country broadcast President Barack Obama’s address from the White House in full.

In a press conference on Tuesday, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said they would support nationwide anti-discrimination laws for LGBT people — so long as those laws also respected religious liberty.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has announced a “research and essay competition” at the National Defense University to honor Saudi Arabia’s recently-deceased King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.

Tens of thousands participated in the annual March for Life in Washington on Thursday, commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Mere hours after President Barack Obama promised to veto any new congressional sanctions on Iran, Speaker of the House John Boehner struck back, saying Wednesday he would invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress.

A small Congressional body is gearing up to address the needs of the Middle East’s Christians and other religious minorities, who continue to suffer at the hands of ISIS and other persecutors. Thousands have left their homes and are struggling to survive the winter in flimsy tents, and many in Congress are pushing for America to do more.

I discuss the state of American paranoia for Fare Forward’s “Unfinished Business: 2015 in Preview.” Read on Fare Forward.

Though its government recently attracted headlines for spending a week trying to extinguish an oil tanker fire, Libya continues to struggle through a years-long civil war between rival forces competing for legitimacy.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Sunday that he could try a rarely-used political tactic to pass a nuclear deal with the United States: a direct referendum with the voters.

Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption has reported that 2014 saw a 10-year high in the number of “olim,” or Jewish immigrants to Israel, with 26,500 Jews moving to the country in the past year.

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.

As Christmas approaches on Thursday for the majority of Christians, persecuted communities continue to demonstrate their survival and resilience.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expounded on the sinking ruble, the annexation of Crimea and his love life in a three-hour press conference on Thursday.

On his 78th birthday, Pope Francis is being hailed for his role in a diplomatic breakthrough between Cuba and the United States.

Pakistani Taliban gunmen opened fire in a public school on Tuesday in the city of Peshawar, killing over 130 schoolchildren, and making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan’s history.

It took over a year, but the United States now has an ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

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.

The committee overseeing the federal government’s “Twitter war” against terrorist propaganda admitted on Thursday that despite nearly $1.3 billion dollars in annual programming, it cannot measure the success of those efforts.

Egyptians and foreigners alike criticized a crackdown on gays in a country where homosexuality is legal, following a raid on a public bathhouse in Cairo.

Middle Eastern social media users responded with vehemence on Tuesday to the Senate’s report on CIA interrogation practices, calling America “barbaric” and protesting their own governments’ complicity.