As Afghanistan’s government works toward ending discrimination and advancing women’s equality, a new Asia Foundation survey shows entrenched hardline conservative attitudes toward women across society are stagnating progress, write Tabasum Akseer and Fahim Ahmad Yousufzai.

The U.S. government must pay attention to new messaging platforms that allow terrorists to communicate and complicate U.S. national security efforts, writes Marc Nathanson.

This week, Zimbabwe’s military take President Robert Mugabe into custody during an attempted coup; China and ASEAN agree to begin talks on the South China Sea; the fifth round of NAFTA negotiations begin in Mexico City; and more.

A Pacific Council delegation recently traveled to Brussels and The Hague for high-level meetings with officials from NATO, the EU, the IMF, the German Marshall Fund, the ICC, and more. Read about highlights from the trip.