Hot Spots

Russian / U.S. / NATO attitudes

The threat of nuclear war between Russia and the U.S., courtesy the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

Explanation of the Sunni-Shia divide.

Thoughts on the decline of the European Union.

Figures on foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria

Broad brush on Obama's foreign policy by Bret Stephens

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Middle East

Chinese government opinion on the South China Sea controversy

Michael Auslin / American Enterprise Institute, on the state of U.S. foreign policy and the growing risks.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on the commemoration of the end of the war with Japan.