America's strategy for dealing with ISIS has been predicated on the belief that its ravages can be contained to Iraq and Syria. But attacks on a Russian airliner in Egypt, suicide bombings in Beirut and deadly assaults in Paris demonstrate that premise is wrong.

In a move that could cost the EU up to 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product, according to the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, on Oct. 6 the European Court of Justice invalidated the 15-year old EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, causing some consternation among the more than 5,000 European and U.S. firms that rely on the Agreement to transfer EU data to U.S. servers.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul discusses the Obama Administration's decision to send more troops to Syria to fight ISIS.

Condoleezza Rice has openly criticised the Obama administration for signing a nuclear arms deal with Iran calling it a “$100bn pact to destabilise the Middle East”.