The Israeli military says it “continues to attack” inside the Gaza Strip as a dispute with Hamas delayed the start of a planned ceasefire ...

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating ...

Gaza truce in limbo as Netanyahu demands list of hostages to be freed - The ceasefire deal was signed off by Israel’s ...

The deadline for the start of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has passed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would not begin until Hamas provides the names of ...

As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China and Russia when the Middle East conflict plunged him back ...

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says she watched America’s leadership diminish in the world during Donald ...

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says she watched America’s leadership diminish in the world during Donald Trump’s first presidency and saw China fill the vacuum.

Senate Democrats appear to be warming up to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), President-elect Trump’s combative and confrontational nominee for envoy to the United Nations, encouraged by commitments ...

The world is entering a new era. Global cooperation must adapt, if we are to confront our challenges and seize the ...

Congress also needs to be involved. The bipartisan Sudan Caucus should be reactivated. The Senate and House must hold immediate hearings on Sudan. The bipartisan Sudan Caucus used to meet almost ...

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Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what ...