Five CFR experts highlight trends worth tracking in the year ahead.

Faysal Itani examines the jihadists’ threat to Iraq (and Syria). Inside Iraqi Politics offers a roundup of what has been going on in Iraq while everyone else was paying attention to anything else. …

The problem with the “energy weapon” is that it is notorious for backfiring. That fact couldn’t have rung truer than this week when it was reported that Germany, a major natural gas importer in Europ…

This week: Google planning a censored search engine for the Chinese market, taking down a cybercrime ring, Facebook removes "inauthentic accounts," and internet disruptions in Mali. 

For two decades, Europe has followed the United States' lead and advocated for a “free and open” internet. The prevalence of online censorship and disinformation has severely tested that approach.

Charges of foreign power interference in the U.S. presidential election have raised grave national security concerns and touched off multiple federal inquiries that could drag on for months.