Foreign Policy

Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva was briefly questioned by police Friday. Here's how he may factor into the Petrobras scandal.

Can we trust Trump's latest reversal?

Donald Trump has changed course on his widely-condemned promise to bring back torture and kill families of terrorists.

Trump has tapped a powerful vein of nationalist isolationism. A President Hillary Clinton would have a hard time persuading Americans that global leadership still matters.

To protect the Constitution under a Trump presidency, the U.S. military must refuse any orders to torture.

Ted Cruz is cashing in on Marco Rubio's yoga joke by selling yoga mats.

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Washington was also trying to protect Tunisia — and help keep the Arab Spring’s only success story from going off the rails.

The fracturing of Afghanistan’s body politic looms. Can anyone stop it?

Two unnamed complainants asked a German court to reverse a ban on animal sex. The court threw out the claim.

A court order compelling Apple to help the FBI unlock one of its phones has sparked a heated debate over privacy and national security.

These obscure Kurdish fighters just took responsibility for the this week's Ankara bombing.

Once dismissed as an out-of-touch technocrat, Alain Juppé has reinvented himself as France's voice of moderation — and the French love him for it.

Turkish authorities have released Rami Jarrah, a Syrian journalist based in Gaziantep, but have not yet provided a reason for his arrest.

Wrong movie, wrong focus group, wrong century.

From climate change to the Islamic State, from Russia to China, we asked scholars who they want tackling America's biggest problems.

Bowe Bergdahl thought the Army was failing him and other soldiers, but one incident pushed him over the edge

The Chabahar port agreement is set to be finalized in the upcoming trilateral meeting in Delhi. With all players slated to benefit, Chabahar looks like a win-win for all parties.

Hitler’s Romanian ally led an utterly barbaric regime — that while often protecting Jews inside Romania's borders, murdered them indiscriminately just outside those borders.

A New Zealand minister had a dildo thrown at his face. Good thing he thought it was funny.