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Opposition National Assembly President Juan Guaido, accompanied by his wife, Fabiana Rosales, greets supporters Jan. 31, 2019, upon his arrival to the Venezuelan Central University for a conference on economic plans for reviving the country.

Venezuela tests Trump — will U.S. return to ‘regime change’ foreign policy?

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s new interim president gained broad international support. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Peru and other countries in...

British Prime Minister Theresa May walks to address the media in front of No. 10 Downing St. in London on Jan. 16, 2019. May's government survived a no-confidence vote called after her Brexit deal was overwhelmingly rejected in Parliament, but an EU exit deadline still looms.

Britain needs a Brexit do-over referendum to get out of this mess

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

Britain’s holiday from history was supposed to end this week. After three years of bitter debate, Prime Minister Theresa May hoped Parliament would back the agreement for Britain’s withdrawal from...

A U.S. soldier stands at the site where a suicide bomber attacked a police compound in the Surobi District of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 21, 2014. The war in Afghanistan has lasted more than 17 years.

Will the never-ending war in Afghanistan ever end?

May 31, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

As 2018 wound down, President Donald Trump reminded his Twitter followers of one of his most solemn promises. “I campaigned against the NEVER ENDING WARS, remember!” The tweet sought to...

A convoy of U.S. forces near the village of Yalanli, on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij in March 2017.

Will Trump’s pulling of troops from Syria prove to be a historic blunder?

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

Against the advice of his entire national security team, President Donald Trump has ordered the full withdrawal of 2,000 U.S. ground troops from Syria. The decision, as usual, was announced...

Activists, protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hold a candlelight vigil outside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 25, 2018. The poster reads in Arabic: "Khashoggi's friends around the world."

How Trump should, but probably won’t, confront Saudi Arabia

May 31, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.

The latest Saudi explanation of what happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi — that his murder was premeditated by his assailants — is no more acceptable an explanation than the earlier...

A man, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, breathes through an oxygen mask in the Damascus suburbs of Jesreen.

How should the world respond toward Syria?

November 3, 2021 at 6:51 p.m.

As the United States contemplates whether and how to respond militarily to the horrific use of chemical weapons in Syria, the question of its legality has again emerged. We have...

How should the world respond toward Syria?

December 24, 2018 at 4:05 a.m.

As the United States contemplates whether and how to respond militarily to the horrific use of chemical weapons in Syria, the question of its legality has again emerged. We have...

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

August 21, 2021 at 11:19 a.m.

There is a word missing in the declassified "Key Judgments" of the terrorism NIE ... Afghanistan. Yet it is in Afghanistan that the true failure of Bush's "war on terror"...

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