November 2020

While the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan that the Trump administration announced Tuesday gives President-elect Joe Biden something close to what he advocated for as vice president, it may paint him into a corner as an incoming…

Acting Pentagon chief Christopher Miller said Tuesday that the United States will reduce its military presence in Afghanistan to 2,500 troops and 2,500 troops in Iraq by Jan. 15. The United States has approximately 4,500…

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island. IN 2014, THE remaining staff of the…

Syria's civil war is entering its 10th year. It has created this century's worst humanitarian crisis so far. Syria's poverty rate is now over 80%. This leaves many young men with few options besides becoming a mercenary. Some of them are…

Cyprus has been divided into a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek Cypriot south since Turkey’s 1974 invasion | Adem Altan/AFP via Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for a “two-state” solution in Cyprus…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, shake hands during a news conference, in Moscow, March 5, 2020. Photo: Pavel Golovkin / Pool via Reuters. David L. Phillips, director of…

In February 2012, a few days before the Nevada caucuses, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president and most Republicans didn’t care. A Pew survey at the time found that a Trump endorsement would make “no difference” to…

President Donald Trump's national security adviser promised a “very professional transition” to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden in an interview broadcast Monday, even as Trump continues to falsely claim he won the November…

The US State Department said on Saturday that the conference on the return of Syrian refugees, held in Damascus this week, was "mere theatrics" and accused Russia and the Syrian government of "superficial support" for refugees.…

Russia, which is deploying troops to Nagorno-Karabakh to oversee the peace deal, previously said Turkish troops would not be joining them. Residents look at burning houses in the village of Charektar outside the town of Kalbajar.…