Foreign Affairs

Israel struck Hamas military targets after further explosive balloons were launched from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said early Sunday. The Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, tweeted that Palestinians...

They emerged dazed, shaken and in tears from the detention center in Minsk, to be met by waiting relatives. They displayed the black-and-blue bruises on their bodies, saying police had...

Circuses in Peru are built around clowns, providing work for more than 500 of the characters. But the shows have been struggling in recent years, their patrons lured away by...

Japan on Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, with Emperor Naruhito expressing “deep remorse” over his country's wartime actions at a somber annual ceremony...

Circuses in Peru are built around clowns, providing work for more than 500 of the characters. But the shows have been struggling in recent years, their patrons lured away by...

Northeast Asia doesn't so much repeat history as drag it along like an anchor. The bombs stopped falling 75 years ago, but it is entirely possible — crucial even, some...

The U.N. Security Council on Friday resoundingly defeated a U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran, with the Trump administration getting support from only the Dominican...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to use this weekend's visit to the inauguration of Dominican Republic President-elect Luis Abinader to show U.S. support for the country and to...

President Donald Trump chastised Iran on Friday for its continued attempts to ship fuel to Venezuela, confirming that the cargo of four Iranian tankers had been successfully seized and moved...

Ruhama Fernandez, a 21-year-old Cuban “YouTuber,” announced on Aug. 3 that she had been denied a passport to receive an international award and visit her parents in the United States....

Belarusian authorities have released about 1,000 people detained amid demonstrations contesting the results of the presidential election, in an attempt to assuage public anger against a brutal crackdown on peaceful...

The United Arab Emirates' decision this week to normalize ties with Israel divided the region and the larger world on Friday, with much of the West praising the move, while...

NEW YORK – A U.S. effort to extend an expiring arms embargo on Iran was voted down at the United Nations Security Council on Friday evening, setting the stage for...

Lebanon's judicial investigation of the Beirut port explosion started with political wrangling over the naming of a lead investigator, military threats to jail leakers and doubts over whether a panel...

Iran's Foreign Ministry strongly condemned an historic deal establishing full diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, calling it a stab in the back to all Muslims, state...

The few, the brave — those were the people returning this week to movie theaters in Mexico City that had been closed for four months due to the coronavirus pandemic....

Mauricio Claver-Carone, President Donald Trump's candidate to control a key multilateral financial institution in the hemisphere, is hoping that his vision and experience —and not his hardline position on Cuba...

In the middle of a pandemic, the United States suspended private charter flights to Cuba as a measure to increase pressure and cut off funds going to the Cuban government,...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of...

Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the catastrophic Aug. 4 explosion, granting the military sweeping powers amid rising popular anger...

Not two months after battling back the coronavirus, Spain's hospitals are beginning to see patients struggling to breathe returning to their wards. The deployment of a military emergency brigade to...

Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai said his arrest on Monday took him by surprise and that he has been overwhelmed by residents' subsequent support despite the...

The Israeli army damaged a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in an airstrike carried out overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. The...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, the man dubbed "Europe's last dictator," seems to have badly underestimated at least two serious threats to his 26-year rule. One is a microscopic contagion, the...

Twenty-four European countries lodged a complaint with the U.S. State Department this week over President Donald Trump's expansive use of sanctions to help influence American foreign policy goals, according to...

The United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to work toward establishing full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt, for now, Israel's controversial plans to annex occupied...

In the southern Lebanese town of Haris, a newlywed couple is living in one of Safy Faqeeh's apartments for free. He's never met them before, and they aren't on a...

Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus. Initial research has already...

Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than 1 million Japanese war dead are scattered throughout Asia, where the legacy of Japanese aggression still hampers recovery efforts....

Puerto Rico's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the votes cast in Sunday's botched primary election will be counted, and ordered the election to be continued this coming Sunday for precincts...

The damage caused by earthquakes is well documented, but a newly recorded “boomerang” quake can hit once, turn around, then hit harder and faster the econd time, a new study...

Hundreds of women rallied across Belarus' capital Wednesday to protest a brutal police crackdown that left hundreds injured and thousands detained while challenging election results extending the 26-year rule of...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand on Thursday reported 13 new cases of COVID-19, with health officials linking them to one Auckland family. Health officials expected further cases to be...

An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl's sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as...

It started as a Saturday trip to Belgium's coast, a chance to escape a heat wave and coronavirus restrictions for a while. As the tide came in, the beach got...

When the huge explosion ripped through Beirut last week, it shattered the glass doors near where 3-year-old Abed Achi was playing with his Lego blocks. He suffered a head injury...

In a summer of protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the accusations of corruption and calls for him to resign could be accompanied by another familiar refrain: “I've never...

Mauricio Claver-Carone, an adviser to President Donald Trump who is running to be the head of the Inter-American Development Bank, accused a “minority” of Latin American countries led by Argentina...

Voters in oil-rich Trinidad and Tobago have returned to power the government of Prime Minister Keith Rowley for five more years in Monday's general elections amid the coronavirus pandemic. But...

The shattered city of Beirut on Tuesday marked a week since the catastrophic explosion that killed at least 171 people, injured thousands and plunged Lebanon into a deeper political crisis....