We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.

Today's attack indicates that the policy of appeasing the Taliban has failed. Diplomatic engagement with the Taliban will not produce any results until the terrorist group is defeated militarily. One-sided engagement policy is not an exit strategy but a recipe for failure.

What if the peaceful hijackers are losing their bid to take over the religion? That certainly seems to be the case in Pakistan.

How can we keep saying that Pakistan is moderate, when they continue to spill blood in the name of religion.

The murder of a young journalist has caused the international press to cast Iraqi Kurdistan as a region of insecurity, criminality, and repression, and has undermined the stability Kurdistan needs for success.

Russia may be developing stronger ties with South America, but this is only because it could not do so in Europe.

A successful US strategy in South Asia would involve continuing the bipartisan consensus on deepening ties with India while devising a new, more robust approach toward Pakistan that presses it to combat radical Islamist militancy more effectively.

Against this backdrop--Pakistan careening from one crisis to the next and the U.S.-Pakistan relationship at its lowest point in years--come two contrasting books from experts on the country.