In 2016, there were 13,446 terror attacks — a 9 percent decrease from the previous year — but the number of victims kidnapped or held hostage nearly doubled.

Choi Seong-guk has had a knack for drawing since he was a kid when teachers praised him for his sketches of evil American soldiers that he says he made look “as ugly and violent as possible.”

In 2016, Japan received a record number of applications for refugee status. It rejected 99 percent of them.

A year-long investigation by Foreign Policy magazine reveals Israel's secret system for shuffling out African asylum-seekers, via Rwanda or Uganda, into third countries, where they are no longer anyone’s responsibility.

We interviewed one of the Philippine president’s staunchest supporters: Duterte Youth leader Ronald Cardema.

A new report by analytics group IHS Markit finds that in the years since declaring its "caliphate," ISIS has lost control of 60 percent of its territories, and seen an 80 percent drop in its revenue.

Many migrant workers are building stadiums without contracts, which is against Russian law. This practice has left many migrants with few options for holding unfair employers accountable for unpaid wages.

The attack in Germany in 2016 changed the conversation about surveillance in Germany.

Is Italy just lucky? Have the country’s counter-terrorism policies — born out of years of anti-mafia policing and intelligence work and a decade of bloody political violence in the 1970s — given Italian officials an edge in the age of Isis? Or are there other factors at play?

The US has warned Syria that it will pay a heavy price if it uses chemical weapons again. The White House also said Syria's allies, Iran and Russia, would be held responsible. The ratcheting of tension comes as regional powers compete for advantage in a post-ISIS world. The tension carries the risk of war.