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Millions of people in East Africa, the Horn, and up through the Middle East are facing the prospect of extreme hunger as a plague of locusts spreads in the region.

As rumors spread, Saeid Golkar argues why it's unlikely that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeds his father.

The Chicago Council Survey team provides an update on the COVID-19 pandemic from around the world, including the US, Japan, Brazil, the UK, Italy and France.

After a decade of involvement in Syria, some Russians are eager to withdraw their forces from the country.

Saeid Golkar discusses the belief that Iran wishes to resume open and benevolent relations with the West and the United States.

Despite its small size, Qatar has historically played an outsize role in negotiating with organizations or countries that the U.S. doesn’t have relations with.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is touring Israel and the Middle East, where the U.S. has official ties with nearly every country. Israel has ties to only five.

Should reunification of North and South Korea eventually take place, Americans favor maintaining the alliance but are split on keeping US forces on the Korean Peninsula.