The U.S. Navy released a photo Saturday of a guided-missile submarine operating in the Middle East, a show of force that comes amid growing harassment of U.S. troops in Syria and attacks on U.S. bases by Iran-backed militants. USS Florida, an Ohio-class submarine that carries 154 Tomahawk...
French President Emmanuel Macron this week paid a three-day visit to China where he gauged if Beijing could play a constructive role in pressuring Russia to resume negotiations in Ukraine, according to an expert. Macron urged his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Thursday to...
In the southern Turkish town of Pazarcik, the epicentre of the devastating February 6 earthquakes, people are focused on just trying to survive. Tens of thousands of residents left the town after the disaster and for the ones left behind without adequate shelter or facilities, holding a...
President Kais Saïed needs to face “real costs to democratic backsliding” in the increasingly authoritarian Tunisia, according to nearly two dozen former U.S. diplomats and academic experts calling for—among other things—economic sanctions and a hold on a controversial US$1.9 billion...
The United States’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and reviewed what the White House called “significant progress” in Yemen peace efforts, the White House said. On a trip aimed at bolstering sometimes strained ties with Riyadh...
