During his nostalgia-laced visit to the Republic of Ireland this week, President Biden evidently mixed up the name of one of the world’s leading rugby union teams with a notorious police unit…
Brazil’s leftist president began a visit to China on Thursday by taking a swipe at the U.S. dollar and asking why the group of leading emerging economies known as BRICS could not use a currency…
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraweicki said on Thursday that European “strategic autonomy” – the concept being championed by French President Emmanuel Macron – amounts to Europe “shooting into…
“Nuclear warming” is a far greater threat to the world than global warming, “and all it takes is one madman and you’re going to have a problem the likes of which the world has never seen,” former…
Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin on Tuesday reaffirmed that the 72-year-old U.S.-Philippines mutual defense treaty applies to armed attacks on U.S. and Philippines armed forces, aircraft and…
Asked about the leak of apparently classified documents relating to South Korea and Israel, a State Department spokesman said on Monday that U.S. officials were engaging with allies “to reassure…
As China’s People’s Liberation Army continued wargames near Taiwan including simulated attacks against the island, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voiced concern on Sunday that believes Beijing may…
The United States needs to ask the Europeans if French President Emmanuel Macron speaks for them, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Sunday after Macron was reported as saying after a visit to…
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul said Thursday that members of his bipartisan delegation visiting Taiwan had received “threatening texts” but shrugged off attempted “…
Amid a furor over skirmishes between Israeli security forces and Muslim young men who barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, the Palestinian representative at the U.N. expressed…
Russian officials on Wednesday rejected allegations that thousands of Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia during its invasion, characterizing their transfer as a humanitarian “…
Iran’s supreme leader lashed out Tuesday at the United States and Israel, charging that a fast-declining U.S. has had a succession of presidents each weaker than the one before, and that Israel’s…
As he launched Russia’s month-long presidency of the U.N. Security Council, Moscow’s U.N. ambassador said on Monday he would not relinquish the chair when Ukraine is on the agenda, arguing that…
A Republican lawmaker raised concerns at a congressional hearing this week about the fact that Russia and China are developing and testing sophisticated new nuclear weapons, and asked senior…
The U.S. Senate voted 66-30 Wednesday to repeal two Iraq-related war authorizations, with Republicans divided on the question at a time of stepped-up attacks on U.S. troops by Iranian proxies in…
A month after Russia informed the U.S. that it is suspending participation in the last remaining nuclear pact between the two countries, a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that Moscow is…
China and Russia pose significant challenges to the United States, but the U.S. cannot focus on those issues to the exclusion of cooperating with them on climate change, according to U.S.…
Only holders of IDs issued by member-states of the United Nations may enter the U.N. headquarters in New York City, a spokesman for secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Monday when asked why…
A Russia-led bid for a U.N.-mandated international investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines last September failed on Monday. Russia raised again claims by an investigative…
CENTCOM commander U.S. Army Gen. Michael Kurilla told lawmakers last week that, since the beginning of 2021, U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq have been attacked by Iranian proxies, using drones or…
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…