Foreign Policy

Another American citizen believed to have been an ISIS fighter has been transported back from Syria to the United States where he is to face trial for his alleged involvement with the group, two U.S. […]

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Tehran has fired back at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “hypocritical gesture” to visit the country and address the Iranian people, AP/Fox News informed. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif replied to the top American […]

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Just one week after similar tests, North Korea has again fired two short-range missiles into the waters that separate it from Japan, according to South Korea’s military, NPR reported. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff […]

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Syrian rebel commanders and rights groups said on Monday Russia and its Syrian ally are stepping up aerial strikes on heavily populated cities, in a new and bloodier phase of a three-month-old assault on the […]

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Video released Monday shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces warning a British warship not to interfere as they seized a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, New York Post reported. The […]

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Guatemala has yielded under pressure from the Trump administration, signing an agreement with the United States to serve as a safe-third country for asylum seekers from Central America trying to reach the U.S. The deal […]

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday that the war in Afghanistan between Taliban forces and the U.S.-backed government, which has gone on for almost two decades, would have continued for another 19 years should […]

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China said on Wednesday that the U.S.’ unilateral policies and “power politics” only served to undermine global stability, at a time when the Defense Ministry issued the first comprehensive outline of its policies since President […]

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President Donald Trump clashed with a top Senate Republican on Tuesday, during a White House closed-door meeting over the extent of Turkey’s punishment for the country’s purchase of a Russian antimissile system, officials with knowledge […]

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The U.S. military said Sunday that a Venezuelan fighter aircraft had recently made an “unsafe approach” to a U.S. Navy aircraft thus “endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing” the aircraft’s mission. According to […]

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The relations between the United States and Iran are pretty tense ever since President Donald Trump pulled out of the Obama-era nuclear deal. Recently, Iran took down a U.S. spy drone and seized a couple […]

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Another oil tanker has been seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. This is the second vessel seized by Iran in one week. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement on […]

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The United States is sending hundreds of troops to Saudi Arabia in what is intended as the latest show of force toward Iran, two Defense Department officials said Wednesday, The New York Times reported. The […]

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The State Department is looking into redirecting funding initially meant for Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, or the Northern Triangle as they are known, to Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido, a spokesperson for the department […]

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U.S. sanctions on NATO-ally Turkey might deter future arms deals with the likes of Moscow, but it could also play into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hands, CNBC writes. Turkish dollar-denominated bonds and the lira have both […]

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that Iran appeared willing to negotiate over its missile program “for the first time,” in what he and Presiden Donald Trump presented as evidence that sanctions and […]

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President Donald Trump says Turkey will be banned from purchasing American F-35 fighter jets after it acquired a Russian air defense system but made no mention of sanctions that the United States is legally required […]

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he hoped both North Korea and the United States could “be a little more creative” when the two sides restart talks aimed at ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons […]

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday Japan’s reported accusations that South Korea had exported banned goods to North Korea posed a “grave challenge” amid a growing dispute over Japanese export curbs, Reuters informs. […]

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Venezuela’s opposition said on Sunday it will return to Barbados to continue talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro as part of efforts to resolve the South American nation’s political crisis, Reuters informed. The […]

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Recently leaked diplomatic cables sent by former UK ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch show him saying that the Trump administration was “set upon an act of diplomatic vandalism” when it decided to pull out […]

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Senior U.S. officials are considering possible retaliation over China’s defiance of U.S. sanctions on Iran, said three U.S. officials. Last month, China imported over a million barrels of crude oil from the Islamic Republic, prompting […]

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A new team established by the global chemical weapons watchdog to attribute blame for the use of banned munitions in Syria will investigate nine alleged attacks during the country’s civil war, including in the town […]

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South Korea’s acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets will force North Korea to develop and test “special armaments” to destroy the new weapons, North Korea’s state media said on Thursday, citing a government researcher, […]

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