Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that could prove costly in the long term.
A former U.S.A.I.D. worker talks with the columnist Lydia Polgreen about enduring the second Trump administration.
No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls still held captive by the Islamist terrorists. Instead, their fates depend on a ragtag army of activists, relatives and armchair detectives.
He and his team are treating the government like hostile territory to be conquered.
Moscow wants victories before its Monday holiday.