Trump’s personal diplomacy has paused the horrors in Gaza and returned hostages. Durable peace will require engagement.

Jacob Lew and David Satterfield set out to highlight problems that have bedeviled humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza. But they misdiagnose those problems’ root causes, and they are wrong to ...

The Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon killed almost 200 people, injured thousands, caused US$10 billion to US$15 billion in damage and displaced 300,000 people. Despite the strong show of... Even ...

Yuval Shany, an expert on international law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said as long as Israel’s blockade of Gaza is “militarily justified” to keep out weapons and the ship intended to break it ...

Sam Vigersky is an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His research and scholarship focus on humanitarian interventions, UN reform, and public-private partnership in ...

Starvation is plaguing Gaza. We hear about why getting food to the half million people who need it is so difficult. Earlier this week, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that Gaza is seeing, ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues, advocates in New Jersey are calling for the U.S. to intervene and force Israel to allow more aid into the region. The Council ...

Failures of the UN Security Council and Western democracies to maintain international humanitarian law has left Palestinians ensnared in genocide, famine, and forced displacement. Despite the clear ...

The case of Somalia illustrates that humanitarian intervention is often laced with political motives, and a more objective criteria is needed for future collaborative U.N. actions. Journal Information ...

President Obama argues that the Unites States was compelled to act in Libya because of Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s brutality against civilians in his own country. Speaking in El Salvador on Tuesday, Obama ...

As the pressure grows on President Obama to take action in Syria, it’s worth going back to re-read the March 2011 speech he gave explaining his intervention in Libya. In it, Obama made clear that that ...

With great fanfare, before a crowd of 800,000, with 1,000 bishops and 150 cardinals in attendance and a TV audience of several millions, the Vatican recently added two new saints... Three years after ...