International

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal may be controversial in the US, but in China it appears to be the object of great worry and, in some respects, seems to be driving policy in Beijing…

A bombing raid by Colombia’s army killed 18 FARC guerrillas Thursday, the deadliest attack since President Juan Manuel Santos lifted a suspension of airstrikes against the group last month, an…

The South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-Koo and his Japanese counterpart, Gen Nakatani, will hold talks for the first time in four years to discuss issues including North Korea and the impact of…

China said on Friday it was “strongly dissatisfied” after a US military plane flew over part of the South China Sea near where it is building artificial islands, and called on the US to stop such…

The United States has sent a top official to Israel amid an effort to revive talks on a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons, a central issue of a landmark treaty review conference that some…

Russia offered visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi military and other aid on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have made further sweeping gains in both Iraq and…

Around one third of the 200,000 people living in the Syrian town of Palmyra may have fled in the past few days, during fighting between government forces and Islamic State insurgents, the UN human…

A grand jury on Thursday indicted all six Baltimore officers charged in the case of Freddie Gray, who died of injuries he suffered in police custody, allowing the state’s attorney to press…

The Palestinians and their supporters should capitalize on what will likely be Israel’s growing international isolation, Sharif Nashashibi says in an article for Al-Jazeera.

Islamic State fighters seized the northern part of the ancient World Heritage-listed city of Palmyra in Syria, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition carried out the most sustained bombardment of Yemen’s capital Sanaa in nearly two months of airstrikes on Tuesday night, residents of the city said, hitting…

During a short visit to Washington, D.C. last week and conversations with friends and colleagues across the United States, I noticed very quickly a new strain of political concern, sometimes…

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that his crisis-torn country was fighting a “real war” with Russia that could escalate at any time.

Photographs showing a North Korean missile launched from a submarine were manipulated by state propagandists and the country may be years away from developing such technology, analysts and a top…

Norbert Lammert, the speaker of the German parliament, announced that he is cancelling a planned meeting with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, during the Egyptian president’s scheduled visit to Berlin next…

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the US State Department to produce a plan to release batches of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time there, raising the prospect of months of drip-by-drip…

In a potential breakthrough in Southeast Asia’s humanitarian crisis, Indonesia and Malaysia offered Wednesday to provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrants stranded at sea after weeks of…

Iraqi security forces on Tuesday deployed tanks and artillery around Ramadi to confront Islamic State militants who have captured the city in a major defeat for the Baghdad government and its…

North Korea unexpectedly withdrawn an invitation for UN chief Ban Ki-moon to visit a major cooperation project between the two Koreas. The UN Secretary General described North Korea’s cancellation…

Canadian police arrested 10 young people at Montreal’s airport last weekend for trying to join the Islamic State group, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. Charges have yet to be filed against…

At least five people died after a large explosion struck close to government buildings in the center of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The blast occurred as government workers were about to leave…

A day after a massive anti-government rally in the Macedonian capital, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski told his supporters that he has no plans of stepping down. Gruevski vowed on Monday, In front…

More than 50 people were killed and many more injured in northwest Colombia after flooding and a landslide, triggered by heavy rains. A local mayor said the death toll from the disaster could…

Refighting lost wars has become a cornerstone of American electoral politics. To the accusatory phrases “Who lost China?” and “No more Vietnams” we can now add “If you knew then what you know now…

Teachers across France went on strike against government reforms to the education system, on Tuesday. The government wants to reduce teaching of Latin and ancient Greek, scrap an intensive…