by Brian Michael JenkinsThe last bastions of the Islamic State's so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria—Mosul and Raqqa—could be liberated within months.... But they will remain perilous places, and in some respects, the fall of Raqqa will complicate the conflicts that swirl through the region. How might the United States have to adapt to ISIS after Raqqa?... Even while pummeled and pushed back by Iraqi, Kurdish, and other ground forces backed by coalition air power, ISIS demonstrated its capab

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Russian asylum seekers, left, warm up at the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Ariz., on Dec

After learning that his wife had cancer, Yang Maodong, a prominent democracy activist in China, rushed to get a visa and air ticket to join her in the United States. But Mr.... Yang had written in an open letter to Chinese leaders a day before his planned flight.... He wrote that his wife “ has given everything for me, and today it’s my turn to give everything for her.” But after Mr....

FOR years and years, as he roamed the political wilderness and drew sustenance from the media’s oxygen, Imran Khan had kept on insisting he aimed at changing the fundamentals of governance.... ‘Better’ means improving on the old; ‘new’ means out with the old.... The tempered iconoclasm ingrained in his promise of absolute change fanned doubts among the hardened cynics — of whom there is no shortage in the republic — but it also triggered an avalanche of hope and expectancy among those who were

the U.S. Capitol in the building’s first breach ofthe Jan.... 6, 2021, riotwas sentenced on Friday to

the U.S. Capitol in the building’s first breach ofthe Jan.... 6, 2021, riotwas sentenced on Friday to

He was a former Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development who had

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