SINGAPORE: After all the hype, all the vows to tackle what’s perhaps the world’s most urgent crisis, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean...
WASHINGTON: The State Department unit overseeing the fight against Daesh (ISIS) will stay in business for at least six more months, reversing an...
WASHINGTON: Fourteen years after Moqtada al-Sadr’s militias fought American troops, the United States is preparing to work hand in hand with the charismatic...
WASHINGTON: Just as U.S. President Donald Trump reached one hand out to North Korea, he yanked the other back from Iran. The president’s dramatic...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration sought to distance itself from Rudy Giuliani’s dramatic public statements about Iran and North Korea, saying that U.S....
WASHINGTON: When the Stars and Stripes is hoisted over the new U.S. Embassy in occupied Jerusalem next month, it will be a physical milestone in a broader,...
WASHINGTON: It landed with a thud on newsstands at Walmart and rural supermarkets last month: Ninety-seven fawning pages saluting Saudi Arabia, whose...
WASHINGTON: In ordering the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats ever, the U.S. and its allies have upped the ante in an East-West spy game that dates...
WASHINGTON: When the ax fell on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his spokeswoman was half a world away, a distance he and his inner circle preferred and...
WASHINGTON: Under the best of circumstances, a Mideast peace deal is the holy grail of diplomacy, a goal that has eluded American presidents for generations....
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump wants to bring feuding Gulf leaders to Camp David for a show of solidarity with the United States. But there are...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is opening talks with Saudi Arabia on a potentially lucrative atomic energy agreement that’s inextricably linked to an...
WASHINGTON: For the last few years, the United States could neatly sum its objective in Syria in a single, uncontroversial bullet point: fighting Daesh...
WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s mission was delicate but not unfamiliar as he phoned President Donald Trump last week: Persuade the boss...
CHARLESTON, S.C.: Chris Allen’s phone started buzzing as word broke that invisible attacks in Cuba had hit a U.S. government worker at Havana’s Hotel Capri....
WASHINGTON: It sounds sort of like a mass of crickets. A high-pitched whine, but from what? It seems to undulate, even writhe. Listen closely: There are...
WASHINGTON: When Americans started falling ill last year in Havana, the victims of eerie, invisible attacks, investigators seized on a key question: Who had...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Friday abruptly warned Americans not to visit Cuba and ordered more than half its Havana embassy personnel to leave the island in a...
WASHINGTON: There must be an answer. Whatever is harming U.S. diplomats in Havana, it’s eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence analysts scouring for...
HAVANA: Raul Castro seemed rattled. The Cuban president sent for the top American envoy in the country to address grave concerns about a spate of U.S....
WASHINGTON: The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He...
WASHINGTON: Sanctions on North Korea have been tried, and failed. Serious negotiations seem like a pipe dream. And any military strike would almost surely...
WASHINGTON: Never tip your hand to the enemy. No timelines for military operations. No free pass for a neighbor who tolerates extremists or enables U.S. foes....
WASHINGTON: Just when President Donald Trump’s strategy for North Korea was finally starting to show dividends, he threw it a curve. At long last, his...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is pushing for inspections of suspicious Iranian military sites in a bid to test the strength of the nuclear deal that...