Dispatch

The Turkish president is shutting down a university to punish former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu for leaving the AKP and starting a new party, but he risks alienating precisely the voters he claims to champion.

Here’s why they want to replace the dictatorship-era document.

Lebanese protesters are reappropriating roadblocks—long a mark of civil war-era division—as a symbol of unity.

With killings, beatings, and disappearances, the Iraqi government is growing more authoritarian in response to the protests.

Ethnic tensions are coming to the fore, but many minorities find solidarity with activists.

Since India revoked Kashmiri autonomy in August, local villagers have been living in fear amid cross-border gunfire and unexploded shells.

Colombia’s culture of machismo has created a backlash in the form of a new women’s political movement.

Seeking to form a government, Benny Gantz is meeting with the Arab Joint List. What does that mean for the political future of its constituency?

Many demonstrators see Tehran’s hand in widespread violence and support for the embattled prime minister.

A member of Congress wrote to the State Department calling out Ukraine’s Azov movement as terrorists. It backfired.

The military is turning its focus to domestic research and development and seeking to become a major arms supplier, and that is scaring North Korea.

This latest battle could be the army’s undoing.

With Washington’s policy in chaos and Erdogan moving into Putin’s orbit, Moscow has come out on top.

Fed up with decades of economic mismanagement and corruption, most demonstrators just want the government gone.

Still, if the new agreement fails to gain approval, the public may not blame Johnson at the polls.

The debate over how to best marshal the country's alternative energy sources may affect a new independence referendum.

The Law and Justice party is tapping into divides that have split the country for centuries—and will probably win this weekend’s elections because of it.

The PiS government is rooting out, relocating, and demoting political critics in the name of judicial reform.

With the repeal of Article 370, India has opened the way for fierce competition over scarce government jobs.

The party is likely to win the vote, but it may eventually lose the broader cultural fight.

Repression in Xinjiang leaves tens of thousands of children without parents.

But the Russia-China flirtation may not last forever. As in the classic novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” the Chinese can be calculating about alliances.

Ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in China has forced an exodus to Istanbul—and a desperate effort to keep their culture alive.

Hindus left stateless in Assam think Modi will save them. Muslims fear the worst.

Cut off from the outside world, Kashmiris are digging trenches, starting strikes, and preparing for a long fight ahead.

A Belgian fighter captured in Syria was transported to Iraq to face trial. He's now on death row.

The Arctic island offers a harrowing reminder of the environmental damage, and political dangers, already imposed by climate change.

The youth vote is becoming increasingly important in Argentina, but the leading presidential candidates are deliberately avoiding the issue that matters most to them.

Even if President Juan Orlando Hernández were to leave office, the country’s problems would persist.

Witnesses say travel is nearly impossible and communications have been severed.

Esper’s visit is designed to send a pointed signal to Mongolia’s neighbors: Russia and China.

Sudan’s protesters wanted to overthrow their president and his regime. They were only half-successful.

Ukraine’s president now has an unprecedented level of parliamentary support. What will he do with it?