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Last month, amid a rapid-fire escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, received an unexpected invitation—to meet President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. The diplomatic…

Last September, two Cuban government handlers took me to a neuroscience-research institute in Havana to meet with Mitchell Joseph Valdés-Sosa, a jovial scientist who emigrated to Cuba from the United States when he was eleven.…

Iranian soldiers take part in the "National Persian Gulf day" in the Strait of Hormuz, on April 30, 2019.ATTA KENARE | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Iranian nuclear deal looks all but dead just one year after the President Donald Trump…

By Jamie Ehrlich | CNNSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the United States is “considering a full range of options” regarding rising tensions with Iran, including military options, but emphasized that President Donald…

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda on Saturday protested an incursion by Rwandan soldiers on its territory that it said resulted in two deaths, a development that could inflame already tense relations between the neighbors. Two Rwandan soldiers…

The Libyan National Army (LNA) on Sunday conducted airstrikes as part of its deadly military offensive towards Tripoli which aims to bring the country "back to the international community" despite western condemnation, a spokesman for…

The ISS uses an external sensor to keep an eye out for dangerous space debris   WASHINGTON: The U.S. failure to speak out publicly and more forcefully against India’s anti-satellite (ASAT) tests may backfire, former U.S. government…

Earlier this month, President Trump welcomed another American hostage home. In an Oval Office ceremony, Danny Burch, an oil-company engineer who had been held captive by a criminal gang in Yemen for eighteen months, sat beside the…

In his new book, “,”(https://www.amazon.com/Back-Channel-American-Diplomacy-Renewal/dp/0525508864) William J. Burns, a career diplomat and foreign-service officer, makes the case for American diplomacy in a very undiplomatic age. Burns,…

Choe’s principal foil in the Trump administration is National Security Adviser John Bolton, who prompted her outburst against Pence in the first place by calling on the North Koreans to ship their whole nuclear program to the United…