Foreign Policy

A new oil field near Venezuela could be the miracle Maduro was waiting for. There's just one problem — it's in territory claimed by Guyana.

In a country that brooks no dissent, Nasrin Sotoudeh's remarkable solo protest keeps finding unlikely allies.

If the IMF wants to keep Beijing in the tent, it's time to reward China's progress on making its currency more free market-friendly.

China isn’t ready to supply the rest of the world with RMB. So why does it matter if the currency gets the IMF's stamp of approval?

Obama's massive Asia trade deal lives to see another day. But its ultimate fate is still a mystery.

South Africa just let the dictator of Sudan fly home — that's bad news for the International Criminal Court.

The White House nominated Daniel Rubinstein, America’s special envoy for Syria, as ambassador to Tunisia on Monday, putting the thankless job of dealing with the raging civil war in Syria up for grabs.

A new U.N. report describes a regime built on torture, domestic spy networks, and mass conscription.

The families of two men mistakenly killed by a U.S. drone want Obama to apologize. But U.S. law doesn't require the U.S. government to do anything to acknowledge it.

The “pincer” tank strategy has returned to the battlefields of eastern Europe.

Another U.S. government site goes down for the count.

China has been the world’s worst environmental offender for years. That could change a lot sooner than expected.

It’s time for Aung San Suu Kyi to stand up for her country’s persecuted Rohingya minority.

President Barack Obama said the United States and its allies must accelerate the training of the Iraqi security forces whose recent setbacks at the hands of Islamic State militants have raised questions about the broader U.S.-led effort to beat back the Sunni extremist group.

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President Obama waded into the eurozone crisis. But a Greek official made clear Athens was no closer to giving in to European demands.

India Bonus: “Bangladesh and India finally give people a nation,” Syed Tashfeen Chowdhury (Al-Jazeera) India and Bangladesh sign agreement to swap border enclaves India and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to swap more than 150 land enclaves along their 4000 km (2485 miles) border, in an attempt to resolve decades old disputes between the two ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson Judge not… The nominee to be the next chief of staff of the U.S. Army might have a Bergdahl problem. The lawyers for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier charged with desertion after walking off his post in eastern Afghanistan in 2009 and then spending five years in ...

Turkey’s dominant Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority in elections yesterday. Though it retains a plurality of seats after receiving 41 percent of the vote, the election marked its worst showing since 2002. Analysts say it may struggle to form a coalition government — already, three opposition parties have said they will ...

In a surprising result, President Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has failed to win a majority in parliament. But can the opposition capitalize?