President Trump said Saturday he would like to see North Korea participate in next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, saying it could lead to a lowering of tensions on the peninsula.
An American citizen detained overseas by the U.S. military has asked the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the Trump administration for holding him as an enemy combatant.
Demonstrators burned large photos of President Trump in Pakistan on Friday, while the Pakistani foreign minister accused Washington of being “erratic in its approach” to the region following the Trump administration’s suspension of aid to the South Asian nation.
Seoul says North Korea has agreed to hold high-level talks with South Korea next Tuesday.
Salvadorans living in the U.S. are, by most accounts, devoted workers with high workforce participation rates and better-than-average education levels compared with their countrymen still living in El Salvador.
One of the most problematic symptoms of Ukrainian corruption is the influence those with money and power have over the criminal justice system. After writing a series of articles on the subject and its implications for continued aid from the West, I’d like to highlight a chilling event that happened earlier this week which dramatically underscores my point.
The Trump administration on Thursday suspended nearly all bilateral security aid to Pakistan and called out the Islamabad government over its record on religious freedom, sending an already troubled relationship to a new low in a clash over how to conduct the war against terrorists.
The U.S. State Department threatened Thursday to take punitive action against Iranian officials who’ve killed anti-government protesters or engaged in violence and other aggressive tactics to crush demonstrations that swept the Mideast nation over the past week.
Russian officials have urged the U.S. not to interfere in the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked Iran for the past week.
Amid renewal of direct communications between North and South Korea, President Trump agreed with South Korea’s leader Thursday to keep up “the campaign of maximum pressure” against Pyongyang and its nuclear program.
Iranian hackers are poised to pursue targets including U.S. infrastructure if and when tensions worsen between Washington and Tehran, experts warn in a new report.
The Iranian town of Doroud should be a prosperous place - nestled in a valley at the junction of two rivers in the Zagros Mountains, it's in an area rich in metals to be mined and stone to be quarried. Last year, a military factory on the outskirts of town unveiled production of an advanced model of tanks.
A Houston-area couple who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to forcing a Nigerian woman to work nearly 20 hours taking care of their home and five children without pay for two years was ordered Friday to pay her more than $121,000 in restitution.
California's top elections official says there are enough signatures to hold a recall election for Sen. Josh Newman.
The salacious dossier detailing President Trump's alleged ties to Russia isn't bogus simply because he said it is, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Two top House Republicans have introduced a resolution supporting the Iranian people and condemning the regime in Tehran after a week of street protests that have resulted in more than 20 deaths across the country.
The top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela urged authorities Friday to ensure transparency in the case of a jailed American whose trial has become another sore spot in relations between the two nations.
Members of Massachusetts' congressional delegation are supporting a renewed bid to award the Medal of Honor to a Civil War soldier who was widely credited with capturing the eldest son of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the waning days of the conflict.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday on four senior Venezuelan military officials for alleged corruption and repression, in a bid to raise the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government.
Up to $2 billion in U.S. aid could be affected by President Donald Trump's suspension of security assistance to Pakistan, which is accused of failing to crack down on Taliban militants targeting U.S. personnel in neighboring Afghanistan, a senior U.S. administration official said Friday.
The Latest on talks between the rival Koreas (all times local):
The rival Koreas will sit down for their first formal talks in more than two years next week to find ways to cooperate on the Winter Olympics in the South and to improve their abysmal ties, Seoul officials said Friday. While a positive sign after last year's threats of nuclear war, the Koreas have a long history of failing to move past their deep animosity.
The United States announced Thursday it was suspending security assistance to Pakistan for failing to take "decisive action" against Taliban militants targeting U.S. personnel in neighboring Afghanistan.
