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Canberra’s had enough of trade embargoes and Chinese grievances—and is ready to draw a line.

A new U.S. intelligence assessment suggests women’s rights in Afghanistan face threats even without a Taliban takeover.

Biden’s speech to Congress ignores his dithering on COVID-19 vaccine patents, jeopardizing millions of lives in other nations, critics say.

Brazil’s controversial president is again looking to lean on the military for support amid a political crisis.

The United States is sending medical gear and oxygen but has yet to unleash its vaccine stockpile.

Five decades ago, before the great powers intervened, Afghanistan was on a much better path than today. But the longed-for “decade of democracy” was soon shattered.

Jeffrey Feltman, the new American envoy to the Horn of Africa, faces a cascade of overlapping challenges in the region.

Losing a war has reopened old wounds in a battered nation.

This week’s climate summit offered the Brazilian president a fresh opportunity to engage with the new U.S. administration.

Can European far-right parties overcome their differences and boost their clout in Brussels? 

Moscow could just be strong-arming Kyiv and Washington—or preparing another invasion.

“You face a two-front war where we don’t have a two-front military,” said one former Trump official.

After 9/11, Biden embraced the idea that U.S. troops should leave the country better than how they found it. Now, as president, he’s withdrawing them regardless.

Washington wants to reclaim climate leadership and get other major countries to ramp up ambitions.

The Biden administration takes a novel, broad-brush approach to Russia’s nefarious activity.

Experts and former diplomats want to see Biden pick up the pace on nominations to better compete with China on the world stage.

Chief negotiator Robert Malley begins to forge a compromise with both Iran and hard-liners at home.

Syrian government is using aid deliveries as a weapon, State Department reports.

The move will finally end the United States’ longest war.

Troop buildup near Ukraine’s border is the largest since 2014.