The holy site has been the symbolic flashpoint of the broader Israeli-Arab struggle since at least 1929.

President Erdogan uses a permanent "state of emergency" to destroy Turkish democracy

China for the past two decades has been displacing U.S. influence in Asia. Belt and Road is an evolutionary step in this strategy.

Right around now, the president is probably asking himself whether firing the FBI director was the right decision. And if he isn't, he should be.

The removal from office of South Korean President Park Geun-hye is a remarkable outcome for a relatively new democracy.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholding a nationwide freeze on Donald Trump's immigration executive order is a powerful rebuff to the administration — and to the president personally. The court went out of its way in its opinion ...

If Trump really wants to make America great again, he's going to have to change his foreign policy approach. Shaking up the world is going to make America weaker and poorer.

The world's most dangerous flash point got much more dangerous last Wednesday when China sent its lone aircraft carrier into the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan scrambled fighter jets in response. This is how accidental wars start: provocation and counter-provocation in an environment with too ...

The big question for 2017 is whether the U.S. and China will let their troubled relationship unravel further.