Fighting has broken out or continued in three places in the former Soviet Union - Ukraine, Armenia,Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan - in the last few weeks.    The most recent movements in Ukraine have...

Ebola has become a constant in the Congolese province of Équateur - the World Health Organization recently announced the third outbreak of the disease in the last four years. These outbreaks have been...

For the past two weeks, Peru has been embroiled in a series of violent political protests and crackdowns throughout the country. Peru has become increasingly familiar with protests in recent years - it...

Africa is quite possibly the continent that receives the least news coverage in Western press; rarely do stories about major events on the continent get any attention. This is an understandable pattern...

Kazakhstan's protests are over. After a week and a half of turmoil throughout the resource-rich country, the riots that have rocked the country have largely subsided. For those familiar with Central Asia,...

  2021, like 2020, was certainly an interesting year! The one good thing to come out of these anxious and disorienting times has been the increase in quality music in recent months. The pandemic...

     Voters in Iraq will head to the polls on Sunday, October 10, 2021 in the country’s first elections since a wave of anti-government protests during the last two years forced the resignation of...