The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States on Saturday confirmed that the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea fall under the scope of a security treaty between the two countries.

A Russian-brokered deal has silenced the guns in Nagorno-Karabakh, the region disputed for decades by Armenia and Azerbaijan. It falls short, however, of a clear, sustainable peace. The parties and foreign stakeholders should work to ensure that the new arrangements have benefits for all concerned.

Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement to end six weeks of heavy fighting that killed thousands of soldiers and hundreds of civilians on both sides. Crisis Group expert Olga Oliker says while it ended the bloody fighting, the deal is not a comprehensive peace treaty. Azerbaijan, which sees …