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Hope was brief for easing a long troubled relationship after Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif traveled for the May inauguration of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister. Sharif, who won in a 2013 landslide victory, now confronts protests from the opposition as the Pakistan military and agitators thrive on the notion of India as a permanent enemy, with many even condoning terrorist activities directed at...

Policy proposals to end the flow of children streaming across the southern border of the United States too often focus on enforcement, including increased military presence along the border or warehouse-like detention centers in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras – the three nations that so many try to flee. Such proposals miss the major challenge behind many border crises, that is, minimal...

In striving for a caliphate, the self-declared Islamic State has managed to provide a “common adversary for Saudis and Iranians, Turks and Kurds”; “united many of Iraq’s Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish politicians behind an inclusive new government; and “ forced a reluctant President Obama to come halfway off the bench in authorizing airstrikes for ‘limited military objectives’ in Iraq,” writes David...