Newly released documents provide additional insights about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's successor as leader of the Islamic State.

For the ethnic Kazakhs caught up in China’s brutal repression campaign in Xinjiang, their national government, once a source of some hope, offers little support.

Beijing has implemented a sweeping, top-down electoral overhaul in Hong Kong, which will further constrain the region’s increasingly limited autonomy.

Tools developed to combat terrorist financing over the past two decades can be adapted to the growing transnational threat.