Foreign Policy

Protests spread to several Iranian cities late on Friday, local media reported, in a rare display of public anger against the government of President Hassan Rouhani and its handling of the economy, Bloomberg reports. One […]

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President Donald Trump expressed dissatisfaction on Thursday with the fact that China approved oil shipments to North Korea, saying he had “been soft” on the Asian country. “I have been soft on China because the […]

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U.S. President Donald Trump allowed the Iran nuclear deal to survive through 2017, but the new year will offer him another chance to blow up the agreement – and critics and supporters alike believe he […]

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Beside Trump’s more aggressive policy against Mexican immigrants, it turns out that the President sent fewer Mexicans back home in 2016 than the former President Barack Obama’s administration, according to data published by the Mexican […]

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The Treasury Department said on Tuesday that new sanctions have been implemented against two senior North Korea officials involved with the development of weapons in the country. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin noted that this action […]

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Before leaving office, former President Barack Obama ordered spy agencies to plan possible responses to cyber threats from Russia, but Trump’s administration has been reluctant to pursue any of those responses, The Washington Post reported. The […]

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South Korea predicted that North Korea would look to open negotiations with the United States next year, Reuters reports. “North Korea will seek negotiation with the United States while continuing to pursue its effort to be […]

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Official Pyongyang said that it was a “pipe dream” for the United States to think it would give up its nuclear weapons, saying that the latest sanctions, approved in response to the launch of a ballistic missile […]

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The Trump administration has recently worsened relations with Russia as a result of a number of moves, including naming Moscow a “rival power,” sanctioning a close ally of Putin’s and providing Ukraine with anti-tank weapons […]

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The United Nations Security Council imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday that significantly cut off fuel supplies and order North Koreans working overseas to return home, in what may prove the last test […]

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North Korea’s foreign ministry said that President Donald Trump’s national security strategy, in which Trump said that Washington had to deal with the challenge posed by Pyongyang’s weapons programs, was a criminal document that sought the total subordination […]

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The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to annul President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The nonbinding resolution declaring U.S. action on Jerusalem “null and void” was approved 128-9, […]

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President Donald Trump threatened to cut off U.S. funding to countries that oppose his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which caused numerous reactions and critics on Thursday’s UN vote, with a […]

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A new investigation shows that the U.S.-led coalition’s campaign against the Islamic State militant group in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed about ten times more civilians than it claims. Between 9,000 and 11,000 […]

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After President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the warning from Washington that it will take names, Arab and Muslim states asked the United Nations General Assembly to hold an emergency […]

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Iran said that United States President Donald Trump cannot cause the collapse of its nuclear deal with six major powers, Reuters reports. “The nuclear deal will not collapse… Those who hope that Trump will cause […]

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A judge dismissed on Friday a Turkish official’s claim that a Pennsylvania-based Turkish cleric is behind a banker’s trial in an Iran economic sanctions conspiracy, saying it was an “illogical foreign conspiracy theory.” U.S. District […]

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A few days after offering to talk to North Korea without precondition, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson changed his mind and said that Pyongyang must stop its nuclear threats and earn its way to […]

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A Long Island woman is accused of laundering bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and wiring the money overseas to help the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, according to the Justice Department. Zoobia Shahnaz, a 27-year-old Pakistani-born […]

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