Now Iran’s retaliation against the American and Israeli attacks that began on February 28th has hit the heart of all this—and ...

In a marked shift in France’s nuclear doctrine, the president announced that France would increase its nuclear stockpile. He ...

Even when Britain later failed to back the use of force in the region—when Parliament voted in 2013 against a motion by David ...

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Cuba faces deepening divisions as fuel shortages, power cuts and food scarcity worsen amid America's oil embargo and the state's economic retreat.

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Donald Trump said America would probably not need to put boots on the ground Iran, in comments to NewsNation.

He named a wartime commander, Ali Larijani, to run affairs in his absence. And he readied his followers for what was to come. In his final address on February 16th he invoked the defining tragedy of ...

And can this really be the same Donald Trump who used to ridicule the regime-changing, democracy-building visions of “neocons ...

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W HEN AMERICAN and Israeli warplanes struck Iran this weekend, killing Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, China’s flagship nightly news programme covered the story with notable f ...