From Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Policy:  Of course the relationship between such big countries can never be cloudless. And we have some things which still divide us. Missile defense is one case in point.

Something President Obama said in his speech to India’s parliament in 2010 gladdened lots of Indian hearts.

Two thirds of the U.N.'s countries recently signed a communique expressing support for Iran's nuclear energy program and rejecting, what they termed, the United States' unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Has the Syria crisis finally reached the tipping point for intervention? In Aleppo, Human Rights Watch reported that Syrian aircraft have been deliberately bombing breadlines.

Barbara Slavin, Atlantic Council senior fellow with the South Asia Center, co-authored a piece with Laura Rozen in Al-Monitor which features an interview with Iran's Ambassador to the UN.

Atlantic Council managing editor James Joyner appeared on "BBC World News" to discuss the escalating Syrian civil war, the impasse with the UN observer mission there, and NATO's Article 4 deliberations over the Syria-Turkey plane downing incident. 

On May 8, 2012, the Atlantic Council hosted an on-the-record members’ conference call with Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist at the Financial Times, on the repercussions of the French and Greek elections, as voters in both countries delivered a stinging rebuke to political parties which called for continued austerity and fiscal retrenchment.

WASHINGTON, May 7 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tonight escalated the pressure on the international community to stop the violence in Syria, lamenting a “deficit of leadership,” while announcing a new deployment of observers to the country.