A three-member Taliban technical team arrived Tuesday in the Afghan capital to monitor the release of their prisoners as part of a peace deal signed by the Taliban and the U.S., a spokesman for the insurgent group said.
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The European Union warned Monday that economic policy disagreements among member states in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic risked splitting and dooming the European project.
Read moreNorth Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea said, calling it “very inappropriate” at a time when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic.
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Leaders of the world’s most powerful economies will convene virtually Thursday to try to coordinate a response to the fast-spreading coronavirus, which has shuttered businesses and forced more than a quarter of the world’s population into home isolation.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Afghan capital Monday amid a lengthy political crisis, a raging Taliban insurgency and rising coronavirus cases — all of which threaten an already-floundering peace process.
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Badly strained ties between the United States and China are deteriorating further with the two sides hurling harsh accusations and bitter name-calling over responsibility for the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and career diplomat who during the impeachment hearings of President Trump offered a chilling account of threats from Trump and his allies, has a book deal.
Read moreThe U.N.-supported government in Libya said Tuesday it has suspended its participation in talks in Geneva aimed at salvaging a fragile ceasefire in the North African country after an attack on Tripoli’s strategic port.
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A Turkish delegation will travel to Russia Monday to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib province amid a humanitarian disaster there, Turkey’s foreign minister said.
Read moreIn a speech at an annual gathering in Munich where world leaders and foreign policy experts chew on the state of the world, a tone deaf Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to dispel European misgivings over the trustworthiness of American leadership and dismiss notions that the power of the West is in decline.
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President Trump said Thursday that he might end the long-running practice of letting other administration officials listen in on presidential calls with foreign leaders. That’s after Trump’s impeachment was triggered by his July phone call with the president of Ukraine.
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Some of President Trump’s top foreign policy priorities stand at pivotal moments as the secretaries of state and defense head to an annual security forum in Germany. Strains in the trans-Atlantic relationship have cast doubt on whether they can count on much help from European leaders in advancing Trump’s agenda.
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The Taliban have issued an ultimatum to Washington after weeks of talks with a U.S. peace envoy, demanding a reply to their offer of a seven-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan, or they would walk away from the negotiating table, two Taliban officials said Wednesday.
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The Philippines notified the United States on Tuesday it would end a major security pact allowing U.S. forces to train in the country, in the most serious threat under President Rodrigo Duterte to their 69-year treaty alliance.
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French officials Tuesday were scrambling to find a solution for dozens of French fishermen cut off from waters around the Channel Island of Guernsey since Britain quit the European Union on January 31.
Read moreThe countries Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited on a five nation-tour over the past week varied from longtime ally Britain to former Soviet republics in Central Asia. But the message he conveyed stayed the same: Beware of China.
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A federal judge punted to Washington on Thursday a privilege dispute over several iPhones turned over to the House Intelligence Committee by one of the indicted associates of personal Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
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Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah will join forces Tuesday in a rare meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah against President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan, officials said.
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As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial unfolds, Courthouse News will be gathering interviews with senators, members of Congress, attorneys and other newsmakers in the corridors of the Capitol for this regular feature.
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