MUNICH: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of...
MUNICH: A senior U.S.official said Friday the United States and the Taliban have reached a truce agreement that will take effect "very soon" and...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ukraine this week, making his first trip to the country at the heart of President Donald Trump’s...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s weekend tweet canceling secret meetings at Camp David with the Taliban and Afghan leaders just days before the...
WASHINGTON: Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an...
WASHINGTON: With North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump puts on the charm. But with Iran, he cranks up the pressure with economic sanctions and a stronger...
WASHINGTON: There was just one problem when U.S. President Donald Trump walked down the stairs of Air Force One and unceremoniously declared that Daesh (ISIS)...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is closely eyeing efforts in Europe to set up an alternative money payment channel to ease doing business with Iran and...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration was caught between allies at home and abroad and the reality of global economics as it reinstated sanctions Monday on...
WASHINGTON: A battle is brewing between the Trump administration and some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress who are concerned that sanctions...
WASHINGTON: America first? Try America first, second and third. As President Donald Trump prepares for his second U.N. General Assembly, the Olympics of...
WASHINGTON: Despite dire U.S. warnings and fears of a humanitarian disaster, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has little leverage to stop Russia,...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. special envoy is back. The Trump administration, which had steered away from appointing high-level diplomats to focus on particular world...
WASHINGTON: U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” slogan morphed into “Me First” as the president unloaded on the U.S. intelligence community and...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump’s triumphant assertions about the success of the unprecedented Singapore summit are being met with skepticism and...
WASHINGTON: The State Department unit overseeing the fight against Daesh (ISIS) will stay in business for at least six more months, reversing an...
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: 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: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has lost his access to the nation’s deepest secrets. His credibility as a negotiator may be next....
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is opening talks with Saudi Arabia on a potentially lucrative atomic energy agreement that’s inextricably linked to an...
WARSAW: As President Donald Trump declared that “America First does not mean America alone” at a global economic forum in Switzerland, his top diplomat was...
WASHINGTON: For the last few years, the United States could neatly sum its objective in Syria in a single, uncontroversial bullet point: fighting Daesh...