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Chinese People Are Also Horrified by the James Foley Video

Even on the country's raucous Internet, users are mourning the journalist's death and criticizing media outlets who do not.

Assad Is America's Strange Bedfellow and the Price Is 190,000 Dead

Call Sign 'Rogue': Pentagon Says One Chinese Commander Responsible for Spate of Air Confrontations

Mission Leap

5 signs your "limited" Iraq intervention is spiraling
out of control.

A White Shining Lie

Putin's 'humanitarian' convoy is simply a pretext for the war the
Kremlin's been planning for months.

High Times in Beijing's Bus Bar

Manic bartenders, midget bouncers, and snorting ketamine off tables: remembering Beijing when it was still cool.

The World This Week in Photos

Ferguson protests; Liberians face the spread of Ebola; and the pope visits South Korea.

Why Obama Should Get Congress to Back the Fight Against the Islamic State

With Russian Convoy in Ukraine, Defiant Putin Stays One Step Ahead

Did China Just Re-Enact the Famous 'Birdie' Scene From 'Top Gun' With U.S. Plane?