Michael Petrou

The war in Ukraine is the first real test of Putin’s new and improved military. Why its early successes should make Russia’s neighbours nervous.

Why are so many young women from Western countries running away from home to join a genocidal death cult?

How the reluctant German chancellor became the one person capable of stopping Putin and saving Europe. Michael Petrou reports from Berlin

Newsmaker, Feb. 6: The German chancellor reaches out to Putin in a bid to broker peace in Ukraine

Michael Petrou on the expulsion of Islamic State from Kobani, the Syrian town once teetering on the brink

Michael Petrou explains what the world might expect from the new king

A coalition of radical leftist parties seem poised to take power in Greece. Could the troubled country really leave the euro zone?

Newsmaker, Jan 20: The troubled Japanese national now a captive of Islamic State

War is war, and we’ve been in one ever since Canadian forces arrived in Iraq months ago, writes Michael Petrou

The question divides scholars, but there is a rich history of Muslim artists depicting the prophet