08/30/2016 4:03 pm ET Turkey's 'hard-powered' move onto Syria's complex battlefield – to push back ISIS and curtail Kurdish ambitions – could ensnare its forces and create growing risk of a backlash.

08/30/2016 10:05 am ET The Ennahda movement has renounced political Islam and fully embraced Tunisia’s secular order, seeking to work within it.

08/30/2016 2:15 pm ET Police unions from Massachusetts to California are rebuffing transparency measures as a growing number of the rank-and-file say privacy is becoming an issue of both personal safety and basic employment rights.

08/29/2016 6:11 pm ET On Monday, the US met President Obama's goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in a year. But it was not a broadly popular goal. 

08/29/2016 6:33 pm ET Some US generals see Putin's moves in Ukraine and Syria as dangerously aggressive. Others see calculated efforts aimed at blunting Western influence but not directly challenging the US.

08/28/2016 8:05 am ET While no ruling party has yet been unseated, the alienation and frustration expressed by a new generation has sent a sharp message in South Africa, Zambia, and even Zimbabwe. 

08/29/2016 3:19 pm ET Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending the outcome of her impeachment trial, which some see as democracy in action but others decry as an attempted coup. 

08/26/2016 4:10 pm ET If Trump is to have a shot at winning, the Republican presidential nominee has to win over college-educated whites. Only about a third of them support his immigration policies.

• Donald Trump's candidacy and the rise of the 'alt-right' movement

08/29/2016 2:34 pm ET Autocratic President Islam Karimov has ruled Uzbekistan for more than two decades. But public reports he has suffered a debilitating illness raise the possibility of a succession battle, complicated by Uzbekistan's own Islamist insurgency.

08/28/2016 7:00 am ET A North Korea-flagged ship interdicted in Panama three years ago gave a glimpse into Pyongyang’s efforts to build up its military and nuclear capacity. Intelligence from the ship transformed how UN member nations are policing North Korea.

08/29/2016 5:44 pm ET After the San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks refused to stand for the national anthem, other athletes and fans called him unpatriotic. But his protests could be the expression of active patriotism common among Millennials.

08/29/2016 4:55 pm ET The demographics of higher learning are changing, but traditional colleges have been slow to adapt. An adult learner-focused ranking hopes to help prompt change.