Foreign Policy

The CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) are conducting a drone campaign against high-level Islamic State targets in Syria, the Washington Post reports. This clandestine campaign is being run separately from the international coalition’s effort and has targeted senior officials in the terrorist group, especially those working on supporting and expanding the Islamic State’s ...

After a midnight explosion in Tianjin killed dozens, citizen-journalists are pressing the government to do more and share more.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.

In Tehran’s bustling markets, high hopes for sanctions relief may not live up to the reality.

Tom Fletcher says goodbye to all that.

Will China's decision to devaluate its currency cause Fed chief Janet Yellen to balk on a rate hike?

It's time to end the Iraq surge revisionism.

Yes, some of the potential $150 billion windfall coming to Tehran will help support Assad. But it isn’t quite as dangerous as opponents of the deal are making it out to be.

Secretary of State John Kerry is frustrated and angry about the high-profile leaks coming out of Foggy Bottom, and is hammering his staff to stop. It’s not working out so well.

Major equity markets are a sea of red in the wake of China's falling renminbi.

Swedish prosecutors dropped two charges because the statute of limitations ran out.

Five views on the future of Hong Kong’s democracy movement.

The entire world is talking about ISIS. And we can use big data to find the message amid the clamoring voices.

The best stories from around the world.

This week, Pakistan executed at least 15 people, most of whom had spent years on death row before meeting their end in the Pakistani justice system. For these unlucky 15 and their families, this week’s news must have felt like a cruel joke, when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered the government to suspend executions in ...

The Dominican government’s harassment and scapegoating of Haitian migrants and their descendants has gone on for decades. It’s time for it to stop.

With global deaths from terrorism up more than 4,000 percent in a dozen years, can we really call America’s counterterrorism a "success”?

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn retired and immediately began bashing the administration. Has he crossed a line?

The constitution prohibits Paul Kagame from running again. But many Rwandans want him to stay.

FIFA spent upwards of $30 million to make a biopic. It made $918 in the United States.