The appearance of four bodies hanging from a bridge in Cuernavaca serves as a grim reminder that Mexico’s drug war is far from over.

An explosion in China’s restive Xinjiang province has once again raised fears of a repeat of last July’s violent riots.

The last US combat brigade has crossed over from Iraq into Kuwait, but many questions still remain over the role of troops left behind and the stability of the Iraqi government going forward.

The US Department of Defense has submitted its annual report on Chinese military power to Congress.

Japan received two pieces of bad news this month: its quarterly GDP grew at the tepid rate of 0.1 percent, and it has been overtaken by China as the second largest economy in the world.

General Petraeus’ announcement that won’t necessarily honor a 2011 pullout date for NATO forces in Afghanistan is aimed at re-taking the initiative on negotiations with the Taliban.

August 13th (Geopoliticalmonitor) - A weak euro has allowed Germany to post its highest quarterly growth since unification.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is attempting to pre-empt Congress defense spending cuts by implementing a round of his own.

Media outlets recently reported that Canada's air force scrambled two CF-18s to intercept Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers off the coast of Newfoundland.

A radical Muslim cleric who was arrested in the wake of the 2002 Bali bombings and then released has once again been arrested on terror charges in Indonesia.