Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Sixteen years of U.S. warfare in Afghanistan have left the insurgents as strong as ever and the nation’s future precarious. Facing a quagmire, President Donald Trump on Monday outli...

OSAN AIR BASE, Korea, Republic Of - As North Korea vowed “merciless retaliation” against U.S.-South Korean military drills that it claims are an invasion rehearsal, senior U.S. military co...

WASHINGTON - Laying out his new Afghanistan war strategy, President Donald Trump reissued old demands on neighbouring Pakistan to eliminate militant sanctuaries. Less expected: an entirely new warning...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is vowing to win what has seemed to be an unwinnable war. How he plans to do so is still murky despite the months of internal deliberations that ultimately persuade...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the...

BEIRUT - The Lebanese military is now in control of over 80 per cent of the areas previously held by the Islamic State group along the border with Syria, only days after launching a broad offensive th...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s atomic chief said Tuesday the Islamic Republic needs only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 per cent, a level at which the material could quickly be further...

TOKYO - Japan’s new foreign minister is a reputed renegade, famous for bashing his ruling party’s policies with stands against nuclear power and for stricter checks on foreign aid. Taro Ko...

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives as unconstitutional. The bench, comprising five senior judges of dif...

MOSCOW - In a move that sent a shockwave through Russia’s art community, investigators on Tuesday detained a prominent theatre director famous for his biting satire of Russian officialdom on cha...