President Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping the 900 U.S. troops in Syria and the U.S. “will always act decisively to protect our people,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby…
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Thursday gave Secretary of State Antony Blinken until Monday to produce key documents on the Afghanistan withdrawal in the…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) this week expressed support for repealing Iraq-related war authorizations, but not the AUMF the one put in place to respond to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) unsuccessfully urged his colleagues Wednesday not just to repeal Iraq-related authorizations for the use of military force (AUMFs) but also the one put in place to respond…
There is no need for China to overreact – or indeed to react at all – to a planned stopover in the United States of Taiwan’s president, National Security Council coordinator for strategic…
The Biden administration on Monday doubled down on warnings that any China-instigated push for a ceasefire in Ukraine that freezes in place the Russian occupation of its territory would be…
China and Russia worked together Monday to stymie a U.S.-led effort to have the U.N. Security Council condemn yet another North Korean ICBM launch. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-…
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby on Sunday underlined U.S. skepticism about China’s claims to be impartial in the Ukraine war, and said if a meeting…
Senators supporting bipartisan legislation to repeal two Iraq war authorizations said on Thursday the move will have no impact on the U.S. ability to respond to Iranian aggression.
Declassified video footage released by U.S. European Command shows an incident over the Black Sea on Tuesday, when a U.S. Air Force drone was downed after being intercepted by two Russian fighter…
The World Health Organization must and will pursue investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak “until we have an answer,” a leading WHO scientist on Wednesday, adding that the agency…
The U.S. military drone downed after a collision with a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea probably broke into pieces and is likely about 4,000-5,000 feet below the surface, chairman of the…
A U.N. event marking the first International Day to Combat Islamophobia largely ignored China’s mass atrocities against minority Muslims, although the U.S. ambassador did raise the “genocide and…
The Biden administration has cautiously welcomed a China-mediated agreement to restore ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said…
Taking aim at GOP lawmakers pushing for military action against Mexican drug cartels, President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that if the drive continues he will call on Mexican and…
The White House on Wednesday upheld Brazil’s sovereign right to host two U.S.-sanctioned Iranian warships, even as it repeated earlier assertions that the vessels “have no business docking…
A House panel on Wednesday heard testimony about a deliberate effort in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak to discount the possibility that the coronavirus may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan…
“The primary reason there has been no comprehensive investigation into COVID-19 origins is the reprehensible actions of the Chinese government,” Atlantic Council senior fellow Jamie Metzl told a…
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday renewed calls for the U.S. to deploy military assets against the Mexican cartels, “to dismantle them, to disrupt them, and to take them out.”
At the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday, the Iranian regime, backed by Venezuela, tried to shut down a civil society representative who drew attention to Iran’s support for Palestinian…
International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi said during a weekend visit to Iran that military attacks on nuclear facilities anywhere are “outlawed.” Recent discrepancies in…
A senior Russian official said on Thursday that Moscow was compelled to halt participation in New START because the U.S. was abusing its inspection rights under the nuclear weapons limitation…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with his Russian counterpart on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in India on Thursday, and said afterwards he had urged Moscow to end its “war of…
President Biden on Wednesday evening hit back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for blaming his administration for two fentanyl deaths that occurred before he took office.
The inaugural hearing of the new House select committee on China heard repeatedly the message that American politicians on both sides of the divide, as well as the business community and others,…