Order from Chaos

A man cycles past a military truck in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde SEARCH "BAMA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

As conflict intensifies in Nigeria’s North East, so too does a reliance on troubled militias

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit sprays disinfectant at Grand Bazaar, known as the Covered Bazaar, to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo

Turkey and COVID-19: Don’t forget refugees

Kemal Kirişci and M. Murat Erdoğan

Monday, April 20, 2020

New Taipei city government conducts a drill against community acquired infection of the new coronavirus CIVID-19 in New Taipei city, Taiwan on March 14, 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, showing the evidence 150,000 people infected with the coronavirus illness in over 130 countries and territories around the world on March 14. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

After COVID-19, Taiwan will have to navigate a world that will never be the same

Monday, April 20, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front) visits the Taesongsan General Hospital being built by the People's Army in this picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in Pyongyang January 20, 2013. KCNA said the hospital covering a total plot of more than 100,000 square meters has three sick wards. KCNA did not state expressly the date when the picture was taken. REUTERS/KCNA (NORTH KOREA - Tags: POLITICS) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS

How US support for North Korea’s dire medical system could help build trust

Annika Betancourt

Monday, April 20, 2020

Europe and the existential challenge of post-COVID recovery

Douglas A. Rediker and Giovanna De Maio

Monday, April 20, 2020

Healthcare workers watch for Palestinian labourers, who sneak back into the West Bank from Israel as they do not have permits, to test them for coronavirus infection, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 7, 2020. Picture taken April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

Israel’s changing regional landscape in light of COVID-19

Eyal Tsir Cohen

Friday, April 17, 2020

Members of the medical staff at UNRWA prepare prescription medicines to deliver to Palestinian refugees in their homes at Amman New camp (Al-Wehdat camp) amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Amman, Jordan April 15, 2020. Picture taken April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Jordan’s unique coronavirus challenge

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Sheik Muktar Robow Abu Mansur (2nd R), spokesman of Somalia's Islamic al-Shabab, leaves a news conference after vowing to step up attacks against government soldiers and foreign troops in Mogadishu December 14, 2008. Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf sacked his prime minister on Sunday after they disagreed on a new cabinet demanded by donors, throwing his Western-backed interim government into disarray. Hassan Hussein Nur Adde was the second premier fired by Yusuf and had been in the job for only about a year. The fragile administration is fighting Islamist rebels who control the south and are camped on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA)

Hot and troubled: Somalia’s militias and state-building

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives to attend the plenary session of the Parliament ahead of a vote to grant the government special powers to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis in Budapest, Hungary, March 30, 2020. MTI Zoltan Mathe/Pool via REUTERS

Coronavirus is also a threat to democratic constitutions

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

U.S. military personnel wearing face masks arrive at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Extending soldiers’ assignments may help the military maintain readiness

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A picture taken on March 5, 2020 shows the headquarters of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, in Geneva, Switzerland. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

No winners, only strange bedfellows, from the new OPEC+ deal

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Vice President Joe Biden speaking at a Brookings-Biden Institute event, May 8, 2018 (Paul Morigi photos)

If Biden wins, he’ll have to put the world back together

Thomas Wright and Kurt Campbell

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Armed Houthi followers ride on the back of a truck outside a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Saudi Arabia wants out of Yemen

Monday, April 13, 2020

Women are painting the names of victims of femicide in front of Mexicos National Palace before a massive march to protest gender-based violence and inequality on International Womens Day at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico on March 8, 2020. According to government statistics, at least ten women are murdered every day in Mexico, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for girls and women. Femicides rates have doubled in the past five years in Mexico. Impunity is a major problem, 90 percent of cases go unsolved. After a series of brutal femicides, activists called for a national womens strike. On March 9, thousands of women and girls across Mexico are expected to stay home from works, schools and social media sites, in a mass strike called "A Day Without Us" to protest a rising wave of violence against women and what many call an unresponsive government. (Photo by Bénédicte Desrus/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women

Vanda Felbab-Brown

April 10, 2020

NORTH KOREA.- In the photo released on March 13 by the North Korean KCNA agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seen as he watches his troops fire rockets and artillery shells. There is one thing in particular that differentiates North Korean leader Kim Jong-un from his officers: he is the only one who does not wear a coronavirus mask. Kim has overseen multiple military exercises in recent weeks, as Pyongyang is organizing its response to stem an outbreak of the new coronavirus that has spread from China to the rest of the world. (PROHIBITED TO RESALE)

A tale of two Koreas in the age of coronavirus

Monday, April 13, 2020