Michael Petrou

America’s strategy to destroy the radical group in Iraq and Syria has failed spectacularly. There’s a way to turn the tables—but Obama wouldn’t say yes.

Kosovo owes its existence to the West. Its capital even has a statue of Bill Clinton. But even here, Islamic State is taking root.

Despite his policy and pronouncements about gender equality, Narendra Modi makes a bad gaffe

Toronto-based filmmaker convicted of ’gathering and collusion against national security’

Turkmenistan’s leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who famously fell off a horse, is busy building his personality cult with a new statue of himself—riding a horse

Since 2008, Saeed Malekpour has been serving a life sentence in the infamous Evin prison after he says he was tortured into a false confession

Four years after the revolution, Egypt has finally erased whatever meagre progress was made

Michael Petrou on the resignations, victories and conflicts that may lie ahead following Thursday’s vote

Maziar Bahari tells House committee that while there may be progress on the nuclear file, human rights abuses must not be ignored

The Nigerian bishop on the impact of Boko Haram, religious crises masking economic issues—and his hopes for reconciliation