The leader of the international coalition against ISIS said that combating the group’s message online is as important as defeating them militarily. …read more

The number of Ukrainians in favor of joining the NATO alliance has risen sharply during Kiev’s drawn-out conflict with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, a poll showed Thursday. …read more

NATO said Thursday it saw no sign of any significant Russian pullback from Ukraine’s border, despite President Vladimir Putin ordering thousands of troops to withdraw ahead of truce talks. …read more

On Monday 20 October Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will be inaugurated as Indonesia’s seventh president. Australia–Indonesia relations will shift to a new and more mature plane due to differences in character between Jokowi and his...

Americans are divided about whether a single political party should control the federal government. …read more

Agency’s labor-friendly and longest serving chief will step down at the end of the year. …read more

Darth Vader is real, and he ran for president of Ukraine. This spring one of the candidates for President was a masked man, wearing a Darth Vader costume, who was running as a member...

The operation to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State shall be known as “Inherent Resolve.” …read more

31 Oct Invitation Only Research Event The Conflict in Syria and Iraq: A Turkish Perspective 31 Oct 2014 – 15:30 to 17:00 Chatham House, London International Security Department Participants Dr Onur Oymen, Defence and...

On December 2013, two years after its independence, South Sudan plunged into civil war. Rooted in a political rivalry between the President Salva Kiir and his former Vice President Riek Machar, the conflict soon...

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Was it really necessary for Tony Abbott to promise to ‘shirt-front‘ Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Brisbane? Seasoned public servants often blanch when their political masters make populist remarks about other...

On September 30, Myanmar’s parliament approved the government’s proposal to accede to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). read more …read more

In its latest annual report on arms control compliance (released in July 2014), the State Department formally accused Russia of having violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. read more …read more

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has developed an impressive array of land-based anti-ship missile systems, which are part of a robust sea-denial capability. That growing capability is forcing the United States (US) and...

As socially critical dramas inundate the television screens in South Korea, three figures are emerging as the quintessential characters: the police, the judge and the chaebol (family members of South Korean multimillionaire conglomerates). These...

By Anna Kirk, an intern in the Lowy Institute’s Melanesia program. Solomon Islanders head to the polls on 19 November. The new biometric voter registration process has seen 280,000 voters register and 160,000 invalid...

The New York Times has published a story that reports the exposure of 17 American soldiers and seven Iraqi police officers to chemical and nerve agents in Iraq since 2003. The story is important...

The Indian Ocean littoral region’s resources and economic growth are attracting greater political attention. So it’s surprising there wasn’t more press coverage of last week’s meeting in Perth of the 20 member-states of the...

The suggestion that members of Cambodia’s Islamic minority have joined ISIS —a claim vigorously denied by leaders of this community — has briefly focused attention on a religious group in mainland Southeast Asia that...