A key goal for Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has been disarming Iraq’s militias, including those backed by, and serving, Iran. The Trump administration endorses that goal, but its economic pressure on Iran is making it harder to attain.

While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.

The Kurdish-led force lost most of its territory in northeast Syria to a government offensive in January and then signed a deal to merge with the army.

The world largely moved on from the Rohingya crisis. But the exodus has not stopped, aid is shrinking and a generation of refugees is growing up with little prospect of going home.

Former senior Russian diplomat says U.K. factories making drones for Ukraine "could be attacked - not by Russia, but from unknown sources."

Trump's renewed outreach to N. Korean leader Kim Jong Un is raising expectations that future talks may prioritize a nuclear freeze and arms control.

A prominent Sikh separatist says that the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have warned him that he faces a new credible threat to his life

CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in Moscow on Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said, for a rare visit by a U.S. spy agency chief as Russia slogs through its fifth year of war in Ukraine. U.S. officials had not announced Ratcliffe’s trip,