For Humeyra Pamuk's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The 11th-hour scramble inside the State Department underscores how the United States had struggled to formulate consistent policy toward Myanmar.
It took seven years from the summer's day in 2008 when a top U.S. diplomat first sat down with his Iranian counterpart until the two sides sealed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that aimed to keep Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. No one expects it ...
Biden is expected to make clear that sanctions will remain a central instrument of U.S. power — although it will no longer be deployed with the "America First” bravado.
Evoking the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and vowing the Muslim call to prayer would forever ring out, President Tayyip Erdogan put religion at center stage on Saturday as campaigning for Turkey's parliamentary election entered its final week. Persuading religious conservatives, including pious Kurds and nationalists, ...
