Foreign Policy

U.S. presidents are currently given a four-minute window to decide whether or not to initiate an irreversible apocalypse. Sad!

Lawyers representing U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen lampooned the Turkish government on Friday, calling Ankara’s allegations that the 75-year-old imam helped orchestrate the failed July 15 coup “absurd” and “crazy.”

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Antonio Guterres encounters first sign of trouble in campaign to succeed Ban Ki-moon as two anonymous members of U.N. Security Council discourage him from pursuing top U.N. job.

Some 400 people have been killed in a massive drug crackdown in the Philippines. Now the government claims to have 500,000 people in custody.

Two-and-a-half years into South Sudan’s fighting, the U.N. might finally make it illegal to sell tanks and attack helicopters to the combatants.

The PLA has emerged from the darkness of 1989 to reclaim the hearts of the masses.

The 2016 race has in many ways become about the military, but in ways no one predicted.

Brazil's Olympics have been off to a messy start, and it seems like they're only getting worse.

Beijing has lashed out at neighbors and the U.S. after losing in a landmark international tribunal.

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Warsaw may have finally thrown a wrench into the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Moscow's controversial plan to double down on its dominance of Europe’s energy supplies.

The tech giant to offer up to $200,000 for developers who find flaws in its mobile operating system.

Vitaly Mutko may be responsible for one of the worst scandals in Olympic history. Here’s why he still has his job — for now.

From key international alliances to endorsing the GOP’s biggest players, the Republican nominee and his vice presidential pick split this week.

The former Slovenian president wins his share of plaudits and criticism, but faces several daunting obstacles in his race to succeed Ban Ki-moon.

The man overseeing the North Korean delegation was not in Kim Jong Un's good graces last year.

Humayun Khan was a devoted patriot. But if he wasn't a devout Muslim, he might not have become a hero.

The United Nations said Thursday diplomats are working overtime to secure a humanitarian pause in the bloody fighting occurring in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and that a deal could emerge in the coming “days.”

Barack Obama is contemplating a revolutionary — and exceedingly dangerous — change to U.S. nuclear policy.