In an audio interview, Mauro De Lorenzo discusses the political disputes in eastern Congo that significantly predate the Rwandan genocide.

Despite sustained diplomatic attention from the United States, the African Union, the United Nations, and other actors, the civil war and genocide in Darfur show no sign of abating. While Secretary of State Colin Powell's 2004 diagnosis of genocide has been borne out by subsequent events, the local and regional...

The coalition of the willing that goes into Sudan is going to have to be largely organized, sustained and financed by the United States, most likely without a UN mandate.

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.

It's remarkable how Obama kept foreign affairs on the back burner and has racked up political successes. Meanwhile, by concentrating all of his talents on domestic affairs, he's made a colossal political mess for himself.

Mead urges Washington to “enter into deep strategic conversations” with each of these powers, so as to start building effective partnerships.  The problem is, we’ve already tried that, with most of them.

The failure of Kurdish leaders to fulfill their diplomatic agenda extends beyond the latest Turkish incursion. Turkey's occupations, however, provide the Kurdistan Regional Government with an opportunity.