Foreign Policy

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.

South African President Jacob Zuma has faced hundreds of corruption allegations in the past. Now he's been cleared of overusing government funds to ramp up his already lavish private home.

I admit it. I was prepared to scoff, because too many teams I have seen military officers recommend today’s pop favorite biz book. But I found this a surprisingly good list.

When French novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr uttered the immortal words, "the more things change, the more they remain the same," he probably didn't have the military in mind. However, the written works of Admiral William S. Sims, commander of United States naval forces in Europe during World War I, remind us that this dictum, in fact, often holds true in military affairs.

Peter Singer says it is a big deal.

Why deploying an American-led global army against the Islamic State would be a really bad idea.

Event Notice: Contested Terrain: The Future of Afghan Women, Today, 12:15 -1:45 p.m., (New America) Afghanistan Minister of Commerce and Industries submits 100-day plan Minister of Commerce and Industries Humayoun Rasa submitted his policy plan for the next 100 days on Thursday, outlining his strategies for developing the Afghan economy (TOLO). He said that corruption is ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson Deal or no deal? Earlier this week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu claimed Ankara and Washington had agreed in “principle” to provide air support to the Syrian fighters the U.S. is training and equipping to fight the Islamic State. But American officials say they’re not yet ready to go ...

Kurdish forces in Syria’s northeast retook a series of villages that the Islamic State captured earlier this year. The towns’ residents are reportedly waiting to return for fear of booby traps, and approximately 200 Assyrian Christians from the area are still believed to be held by the Islamic State. Farther south, Assad regime forces conducted ...

His most notable achievement as Middle East peace envoy: Moving his offices out of a hotel and into a permanent location.

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter doesn't seem very concerned about the bribery investigation that could knock him from the top of world sport.

A Defense Department laboratory in Utah inadvertently sent a live anthrax sample to a civilian laboratory in Maryland this week, military officials disclosed on Wednesday. The live anthrax had been irradiated at the Utah facility and was presumed to have been neutralized, but an investigation is ongoing as to how the military’s supposedly stringent testing ...

Less than 24 hours after U.S. and Swiss authorities unveiled a sweeping investigation into corruption at the highest ranks of FIFA, including how the 2018 World Cup was awarded to Russia, Moscow is hitting back.

In a hostile world, Pakistani minorities face many threats; each new atrocity brings with it reams of analysis and no shortage of finger pointing towards the perceived culprits. But general public opinion might be just as much to blame as terrorism.