Foreign Affairs

More than 18 years after the U.S. invasion toppled Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Washington on Saturday signed a peace agreement with the insurgents to end the costly war and bring...

The United States signed a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing U.S. troops to return...

Dozens of people pushed aside police barriers on Saturday to protest the closing of a crossing point in the medieval core of the capital of ethnically divided Cyprus. Protesters chanted...

Tens of thousands of people who want the Catalonia region to become independent from Spain on Saturday held a major rally across the border, in southeastern France. Catalan separatists are...

Pope Francis has told the Legion of Christ religious order it still has a long road of reform ahead, making clear that 10 years of Vatican-mandated rehabilitation didn't purge it...

It's been a tough journey for the first-division soccer club from Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the virus outbreak in China. The team came to Spain for preseason...

Thousands of people are marching on a boulevard in central Moscow to commemorate Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader who was gunned down five years ago. The Saturday afternoon march...

The most senior civil servant at the British government's Home Office resigned Saturday and harshly criticized Home Secretary Priti Patel for her treatment of him. Sir Philip Rutnam announced his...

Pope Francis canceled official engagements for the third day in a row Saturday as he battled an apparent cold. The 83-year-old pope, who lost part of a lung to a...

Slovaks are voting in parliamentary elections widely expected to unseat the long dominant but scandal-tainted leftist party that governed on an anti-immigration platform. According to the latest polls, a coalition...

The United States is poised to sign a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing U.S....

The wounded came in waves. First in ones and twos, limping up the steps and staggering through the aluminum doors, and then in wheelbarrows, with bleeding skulls and stabbed necks....

It was bad enough that Deng Xiaoyun's husband, human rights lawyer Qin Yongpei, had been jailed as a subversive. But when the coronavirus started breaking out in prisons, she had...

Turkish border gates are and will remain open for refugees heading to Europe, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, accusing the European Union of not honoring a 2016 refugee...

The United States and the Taliban agreed on a peace deal Saturday that calls for swift reductions in U.S. forces in Afghanistan in return for commitments by the militant group...

Turkey's Defense Ministry said one of its soldiers was killed and two were injured by Syrian government shelling, the latest fatality after 33 Turkish troops were killed in an airstrike...

Japanese sporting events were held without spectators on Saturday in a move aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus. The Chiba Lotte Marines hosted the Rakuten Eagles with...

As the new coronavirus spread rapidly in central China, the country's authoritarian government took a very authoritarian step: It ordered the unprecedented lockdown of 60 million people in the hardest-hit...

Bahrain on Saturday threatened legal prosecution against travelers who came from Iran and hadn't been tested for the new coronavirus, and also barred public gatherings for two weeks as confirmed...

President Nayib Bukele said Friday he has vetoed a national reconciliation bill approved earlier this week by lawmakers, arguing that it would result in impunity for crimes against humanity from...

Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad indicated Saturday that he will reconcile with the former ruling alliance he led with rival Anwar Ibrahim in an about-turn that follows a week of political...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for stronger anti-virus efforts to guard against COVID-19, saying there will be “serious consequences” if the illness spreads to the country. During...

Amusement parks, sporting events, religious gatherings, reality TV shows, even schools. More and more of daily life in a growing swath of the world is being affected by the new...

Guatemalan prosecutors sought Friday to summon Patricia Marroquín de Morales, the wife of ex-president Jimmy Morales, for questioning in connection with possible fraud. Lead anti-graft prosecutor Stuardo Campo filed the...

Cyprus' interior minister on Friday accused Turkey of deliberately channeling migrants for months to the ethnically-divided island's Greek Cypriot south to change the composition of its population. Nicos Nouris said...

Customs officials arrested a man who arrived at Miami International Airport from Varadero, Cuba, on Thursday, with two wild birds hidden in a vitamin bottle. As a Customs and Border...

Russian officials say two people were killed Friday when a large amount of dry ice was dumped into a pool at a bath complex in Moscow. Investigative Committee spokeswoman Yulia...

Martha Beatriz Ferrer, daughter of José Daniel Ferrer, denied accusations made by the Cuban government that his dad abused his ex-wives. … Click to Continue »

The U.S. government on Friday announced the public designation of a former governor of the Mexican state of Nayarit under the Magnitsky Act, accusing him of “involvement in significant corruption”...

The Cuban government vowed that one of the island's best-known dissidents, José Daniel Ferrer, who faces assault charges, would have a fair trial, after activists said the allegations were false...

As heavily armed Haitian police officers marched onto Port-au-Prince's main public square this past Carnival Sunday to protest their low pay and the government's spending priorities, soldiers in the newly...

Women's rights activists protested Friday outside a Paris concert hall where France's film academy is presenting its version of the Oscars and director Roman Polanski's latest film is up for...

Police evacuated a historic Paris train station Friday after a fire engulfed multiple vehicles and sent a large cloud of black smoke over the neighborhood. Police said the fire was...

Playing soccer matches in the long term without fans is unsustainable, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Friday as a fast-spreading new virus caused havoc with sporting events. For the...

A British cruise ship turned away by the Dominican Republic after passengers suffered flu-like symptoms was awaiting approval to dock on the island of St. Maarten on Friday, officials said....

The U.N. envoy for Libya on Friday denounced the near breakdown of a fragile truce between the country's warring sides, citing a “serious violation” over the last 24 hours —...

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting on the escalating conflict in Syria's northwest Idlib region, the last major opposition stronghold in the conflict-torn country. Belgium's U.N. Ambassador...

As the coronavirus gains a foothold in Latin America, Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro added to the conspiracy theories surrounding the fast-spreading virus, suggesting it was a weapon initially aimed at...

As the top anti-corruption prosecutor in Guatemala, Thelma Aldana helped topple a sitting president and most of his cabinet. Her justice crusade garnered praise among the Central American nation's poor....

The landmark Jewish museum in Poland's capital retained its independence and can carry on with its mission now that a new director is in place after a year-long stalemate with...