Foreign Policy

Did you know that private contractors in Afghanistan outnumber U.S. troops three to one?

The Embassy of Pakistan's press attaché responds to Michael Kugelman's piece on the BCCI scandal.

U.N.: A military defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq could scatter extremists around the globe.

The jihadists are on the march in Iraq -- and that's not going to change unless Baghdad gets serious about building a Sunni force to win this war.

Spanish voters are ready to boot the corrupt establishment parties from office. It’s about time.

The White House takes an important symbolic step by removing Cuba from the official state sponsor of terror list.

As Washington debates “fast track” trade negotiating authority, politicians are out of sync with a turn in public sentiment.

The Islamic State's cyber chief calls for lone-wolf attack on Arizona man planning a Mohammed cartoon contest.

A hit TV series has found audiences among Israelis and Palestinians alike with its brutal honesty about the ugliness of war and the complexity of human life.

The veteran former CIA operative recalls the good old days after 9/11: “When I was standing in security lines at airports soon after 9/11, nobody was complaining. Now when I stand in security lines, people are complaining.”

This is a photograph of Texas National Guardsmen engineers helping some Texans in Granbury, Texas.

Nigeria's new president may have a mandate from the voters. But if he can't get the state governors on his side, his ambitious reforms won't stand a chance.

China's biggest index just took a stomach-churning plunge. Is it a sign of things to come?

The military is still facing the same problems in Iraq it has paid billions of dollars to fix over the past decade.

The Pakistani Taliban has published an essay criticizing the Islamic State's aggressive tactics.

The Islamic State is making million selling antiquities to foreigners, including Americans. Here's how U.S. buyers illegally purchase them.

Yang Xiuzhu topped the "most wanted" fugitives list China circulated last month, although it turns out that U.S. authorities had already detained her last June.

The ruling AKP and Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian president are pulling out all the stops for victory in high-stakes elections.

The Pentagon said Thursday it was testing anthrax samples it had sent to as many as nine states after one came up “hot” for live, and potentially dangerous, spores. The scare comes amid an investigation by two top U.S. homeland security experts that raises concerns about government mishandling of chemical and biological agents. Defense Department ...

The Burmese government refuses to acknowledge its responsibility for migrant Rohingya - since the official position is that no such people exists.