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  • Religious Freedom
    U.S. Religious-Freedom Report Criticizes Russia, Saudis

    The Russian government used laws banning “extremism” to restrict religious freedoms, according to the U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2013. The annual report, mandated by a law that lets the U.S. sanction governments that engage in “particularly severe” violations of religious freedom, said the year saw the “largest displacement of religious communities in recent memory.”

  • MH17
    U.S. discloses intelligence on downing of Malaysian jet

    Senior U.S. intelligence officials cited sensors that traced the path of the missile, shrapnel markings on the downed aircraft, voiceprint analysis of separatists claiming credit for the strike, and a flood of photos and other data from social-media sites.

  • Obama
    Syrian death toll and extremist threat increases, but the U.S. does little

    It’s not easy at this late stage for the United States to intervene in Syria or Iraq in a way that would be constructive. But if one principle seems obvious, it is that moderate forces willing to fight the Islamic State should be aided — and quickly. Foremost among these are Syria’s secular rebels. The independent militia of Iraqi Kurdistan, which faces the Islamic State along a 900-mile front, is another clear candidate. Mr. Obama’s decision to stand back from Syria and Iraq has done much to create the present threat to the United States. Continued passivity will only make it worse.