David Rohde

It started as "a new beginning" and ended as "America is not the world's policeman." Between President Barack Obama's historic 2009 address to the Islamic world in Cairo to his...

By all accounts, Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal on Monday to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control was just Kerry being Kerry. The loquacious former Massachusetts senator was...

On Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama boarded Air Force One, departed for Sweden and left behind a looming political disaster. Despite the endorsement of Republican and Democratic House leaders, many...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the last two years, there has been bitter debate in Washington over what the United States should do in Syria. Beneath the surface though, there...

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Documents obtained by U.S. authorities investigating mining corruption in Guinea show Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz's mining company promised to pay millions of dollars in Africa to...

(David Rohde is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) (Reuters) - It is the world's most important organization, yet remains one of the most dysfunctional. In the...

Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch...

The scenes of carnage in Pakistan last week conjured what one senior administration official Friday called the "nightmare scenario" for President Bush's past 15 months in office: Political meltdown in...

UN and private aid workers said Thursday that the pressing need to shelter as many as 3 million Pakistani earthquake survivors before the harsh Himalayan winter sets in is threatening...

At the start of January, Pakistan massed several thousand government troops in and around the town of Wana, near the country's mountainous border with Afghanistan. Using a brutal, century-old British...