It's 40 years this month since the Islamic revolution began in Iran and the regime is still in place, despite strong protests in 2009 and again in the New Year. What does it mean for the Iranian people and their human rights?

International concern continues to grow over Cambodia's planned elections this year. As the country forges ahead in the face of grave criticism, is there any way democracy in Cambodia can be saved?

The long-running, high-stakes nuclear standoff between the US and North Korea threatens to boil over as the two countries' leaders trade insults. With the threat of war, what lessons can be learned from an earlier averted crisis?

The decision that North Korea will send 22 athletes to compete at the Winter Olympics hints at a more positive 2018 after 12 months of threats, weapon testing and hostile tweeting. Could sport prevent nuclear war?

As the holiday season comes to an end, it's a good time to take stock of the books it would have been good to have had on your beach reading list.

This Saturday will mark US President Donald Trump's first year in office. How has the self-proclaimed 'stable genius' fared and what does his future hold?

This time last year, foreign policy officials, commentators and leaders worldwide apprehensively awaited the new administration of a president whose opaque promise to put 'America First' left more questions than answers. A year on, how much more do we know?

The subdued atmosphere that accompanied Trump's inauguration quickly turned to anger for many liberal Americans as protests quickly and repeatedly broke out across the country. So how did it feel to live in a country so divided?

Donald Trump's surprise election has forced America's northern neighbour to adjust to deep policy changes. Its two-Americas policy has failed and Trump's legacy for Canada is a negative one. 

This week's false ballistic missile warning in Hawaii gave the world its first glance of what the first 38 minutes of nuclear war might feel like as political tensions turned to real-life panic. As time ticks away, can catastrophe be averted?