WASHINGTON: Despite U.S. support, the Afghan government’s surprising new peace offer to the Taliban is immediately running into a wall. The insurgents show no...
WASHINGTON: China's increasingly icy posture is thrusting Russia forward as North Korea's preferred diplomatic partner, forcing the Trump administration to...
WASHINGTON: Does the ominous rhetoric from President Donald Trump and repeated flights by U.S. strategic bombers over the Korean Peninsula mean Washington is...
UNITED NATIONS: U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat before the world to obliterate North Korea left no doubt about his determination to stop the...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump blasted North Korea after a new report Tuesday said U.S. intelligence has assessed that Pyongyang has successfully produced...
WASHINGTON: Southeast Asia’s militants who fought by the hundreds for Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria now have a different battle closer to home in the...
WASHINGTON: Southeast Asia's jihadis who fought by the hundreds for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria now have a different battle closer to home in...
WASHINGTON: As America’s 16-year-old war in Afghanistan drags on, Russia is resurrecting its own interest in the “graveyard of empires.” The jockeying...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday the U.S. may need "more forceful ways" of dealing with North Korea if it develops an intercontinental...
WASHINGTON: The slaying in Bangladesh of a U.S. Agency for International Development employee has intensified U.S. concern that the strategically located...
The Obama administration says a North Korea sanctions bill that won Senate approval is consistent with U.S. efforts to increase pressure on North Korea over...
WASHINGTON: The top U.S. envoy for East Asia returns to military-governed Thailand this week, hoping for better press than on his last visit a year ago. Local...
WASHINGTON: The United States has expressed deep frustration over the lack of democratic progress in Thailand after last year's military coup, saying a new...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. is ready to negotiate with long-time adversary North Korea as it has with Iran but Pyongyang has to be...
NEW YORK: India delivered a blunt response Thursday to a peace proposal from Pakistan at the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N.: "Give up...
WASHINGTON: The United States has warned that the toughest crackdown in years on Chinese activists threatens to cloud the high-profile state visit by...
WASHINGTON: A major Japanese corporation will offer a landmark apology this weekend for using U.S. prisoners of war for forced labor during World War II,...
WASHINGTON: A pocket watch that stopped at 8:15 a.m. when the first atomic bomb dropped. A sprawling picture of twisted bodies and screaming faces engulfed by...
WASHINGTON: Indonesia's army allegedly committed abuses when it was commanded by the retired general newly appointed as defense minister but he was not...
WASHINGTON: North Korea has built a new testing facility that is probably intended to research how to launch ballistic missiles from submarines or ships,...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday urged North Korea to release two detained Americans to build goodwill with the United States, but ruled...
WASHINGTON: Commercial satellite imagery shows increased activity at North Korea's nuclear test site but not enough to indicate an underground atomic...
WASHINGTON: A U.N. Commission of Inquiry has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and recommends that its findings be...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged Thursday a sharp disagreement with China over how the international community should respond to the use...
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is extending a ban on imports of rubies and jade from Myanmar, reflecting concerns about the powerful military's...