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We ignore the ever-growing global arsenal of nuclear weapons at our peril.

But will weak protections against human rights abuses undermine the treaty’s intent?

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

After fleeing violence at home, Syrians struggle to eke out a new life in Jordan’s cities and towns.

It appears the Tsarnaev brothers were self-motivated. But their Salafist extremism was itself one outgrowth of the brutal Chechen wars of independence against Russia.

With the killing of Awlaki, the president of the United States became judge, jury and executioner for American citizens.

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

The US has managed to turn a post-communist, enemy-less world into a hive of imminent threat.