In April 2004, as American troops in Iraq were fighting multiple insurgencies, U.S. officials announced a warrant for the arrest of Muqtada... Read More

When President Trump canceled their meeting, Mr. Kim's bid to ease sanctions and rebuild the North Korean economy was thrown into doubt. Read More

Recent events in Gaza demonstrate the growing chasm between reporting and reality. Read More

A brief global history of a tactic that's back in style: toppling other countries' governments. Read More

For months, Mali's president, Ibrahim Boubakar Keita, has been hounded by a short, harsh refrain: Boua ka bla. In Bambara, the West African... Read More

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Voters in the Republic are being asked to decide whether or not to repeal the Eighth Amendment – a part of the constitution which... Read More

Is There Even One Honest Politician In Albania? The Paradox Of The Season. Read More

The only gun shop in all of Mexico is behind a fortress-like wall on a heavily guarded military base.To enter the Directorate of Arms and... Read More

Besides the well-known technical advances that have occurred during major wars of the past 150 years, each one also has produced significant... Read More

Sixteen months into the Trump Presidency, there are no deals, and there are increasingly unlikely to be. Read More

In Pakistan, journalists' woes have been one constant. Whether under civilian or military rule, the multidimensional challenges faced by... Read More

The presidential election is the first to take place after the war's end. Juan Manuel Santos, who succeeded Mr Uribe as president, signed a... Read More

Don't blame the West. Read More

Soggy liberal democracies are in trouble. The age belongs to the world's “strongmen”. As mainstream leaders are washed away by... Read More

Armenia’s new prime minister has so far taken a tough stance on the unresolved Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. The moribund... Read More

The regime and its catastrophic failures go hand in hand. Neither are going anywhere soon. Read More

In 480 BCE, the citizens of Athens were in more trouble than it is possible for our modern minds to fathom. Xerxes, the seemingly omnipotent... Read More

Why southwest Syria is an island of stability. Read More

The cancellation of an iffy summit does not trigger Armageddon. Read More

“I think it's ‘The Art of the Deal' playing out,” national security expert Frank Gaffney says. Read More

The cancellation of the Trump-Kim has not helped the US-ROK alliance. But the deeper fault lines are within the alliance itself. Read More

The muted responses to the US withdrawal from the Iran deal among smaller Gulf Cooperation Council member states reflect careful policies... Read More

South Korean President Moon Jae-In wanted to take an activist approach to peace-making on the Korean peninsula. Read More

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could lose credibility with any number of world leaders who now can't be sure he speaks for the president. Read More

Now that Trump has bailed, North Korea, South Korea, and China might actually be able to make their own peace deal Read More

Trump lies and says nonsense all the time. We need to remember that. Read More

China's leaders are giving up on political hopes of reunification — and considering military options. Read More

Research shows that it's not the far right or far left that is the least supportive of democracy and the most supportive of authoritarianism.... Read More

The elections in Iraq and Lebanon earlier this month present a fragile but important counterpoint to a region in turmoil. Extremists claim... Read More

NAJAF, Iraq — Wednesday marks the deadline in Iraq for reporting incidents of voter fraud. Iraqis from across the political spectrum... Read More

‘Abomination' is not a word I would ever use for any engagement with enemy forces undertaken in a democratic nation Read More

In 2013, Nicolas Maduro succeeded Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela. In the ensuing five years, Maduro relied on populism, much like his... Read More

A distance of more than 400 kilometers separates Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, from Bulawayo, the country's second-largest city and industrial... Read More

The way the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal has consequences, but for the most part I'm less... Read More

Malaysia's political landscape has been transformed by the ouster of Prime Minister Najib Razak and the ruling United Malays National... Read More

An official called Vice President Pence a “dummy” as the country threatened to reconsider Kim Jong Un's attendance at a summit... Read More

The NDP government no longer talks about diversifying the economy. Nowadays, the future of everything is tied Kinder Morgan's oil shipment... Read More

After that surprise second meeting with Xi this month, the North Korean leader suddenly moved back to the dark side in his dealings with the... Read More

The April summit meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was historic, impressive, and... Read More

The full consequences of Britain's vote to leave the European Union were never going to be immediately perceptible. As we approach the second... Read More

Princess Diana once famously observed that there were three people in her marriage, "so it was a bit crowded." The same is true of Israelis... Read More

The text reflected not only the president's signature syntax, but also the clash between his desire for credit and his intuition to walk away. Read More

That's why the administration needs an adviser like John Bolton, who won't tolerate a weak deal just for the sake of a deal. Read More

Jacob Heilbrunn and Harry Kazianis discuss Trump's decision to cancel the summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Read More

Abu Siddique will be counted twice in this year's refugee statistics. He'll be counted once for fleeing Myanmar across the border to... Read More

Early last year, weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, a little known American trade association filed a petition with the U.S.... Read More

But at every stop on this colourful tour, Johnson finds it hard to resist leavening his diplomatic duties with a quip, or an arch remark more... Read More

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday that close cooperation between the two... Read More

The political upheaval of a new government in Italy — led by a partnership of leftwing and rightwing populists, one strong in the... Read More

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left for Russia on Thursday to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin and to attend an economic forum, with... Read More

Recalling that the struggle had taken four years, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi thanked the opposition benches for voting in favour of... Read More