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Treasury targets two Chinese shipping firms under North Korea sanctions
Photo: Getty Images Treasury targets two Chinese shipping firms under North Korea sanctions...
Kremlin accuses US of stoking tensions by flying bombers near its borders
© Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty Images Russian President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov ahead of trilateral talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Iran’s President Hassan...
ISIS defeat in Syria enclave a milestone, but the fight won’t end
GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) gather near the village of Baghouz in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on March 20, 2019....
Chief of staff to Venezuela’s Guaido arrested
Photo: FEDERICO PARRA Roberto Marrero (R), pictured with other Venezuelan opposition figures in 2015, was detained by state intelligence officers, the opposition alleged...
U.S. may soon pause preparations for delivering F-35s to Turkey
Photo: Reuters/Axel Schmidt FILE PHOTO: A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft is seen at the ILA Air Show in Berlin...
Iran denies hacking phone of Israeli election frontrunner
Photo: © Reuters/Amir Cohen FILE PHOTO: Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White party speaks to the media in Kibbutz Nir-Am...
Border Patrol says detention centers are full — and starts releasing migrants
© Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS Julian Rodriguez joins dozens of demonstrators outside Bentsen Tower Federal Courthouse, protesting the plight of separated immigrant families, in McAllen,...
Pompeo, in Kuwait, again urges resolution to Gulf crisis
Photo: The Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference in Kuwait, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool Photo via AP)...
Early celebrations as Syria war on IS holdout wraps up
© GIUSEPPE CACACE Fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces make victory signs as they return from the front after delivering a killer blow to the last vestige of the Islamic State...
Battle for last Islamic State enclave edges toward its end
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the last besieged neighborhood in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria, March 18, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer...
John Walker Lindh, American ex-Taliban fighter, to be released in May, hasn’t denounced Islamism
Photo: John Walker Lindh, a former American Taliban militant, is due to be freed in May following his conviction in 2002 for the support of the Taliban.(AP/Reuters)...
Seoul aims to end nuclear deadlock between North Korea, Washington
Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s administration wants to bring its North Korean and American counterparts back to the table to negotiate a...