Foreign Policy

Estonian parents get two years of paid leave, U.S. prisoners make $.12 an hour, and other statistics to consider this Labor Day.

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After running on an anti-corruption campaign, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari made his assets public this week.

As Germany faces a racist backlash to the influx of migrants and refugees, is the country forgetting its past?

The strange love affair between Indonesia’s speaker of the house, a volcano-fracking tycoon, and Donald Trump.

The reaction to images of Aylan Kurdi says much about the deep tie many see between democracy and chaos.

Monday's grenade attack in Kiev has upended Ukrainian politics -- with unpredictable consequences.

“Many times the Vietnam was called a ten-year war fought one year at a time."

I did a quick interview with Ryan Crocker, the veteran American diplomat.

The ugly truth behind the platitudes of our society.

From its fascist architecture to the 'Puppet Emperor Palace', relics of the occupation linger in the former Manchurian capital.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been a hawk since the days of W. His looming defeat could finally mean an end to one of the most controversial foreign-policy eras in recent history.

It's not about the "icebreaker gap" — it's about business as usual.

India Bonus read: “India and Pakistan’s Dialogue of the Deaf” by Mohammad Hanif (NYT) 10 major workers’ unions go on strike in India Nearly 150 million workers belonging to 10 major workers’ unions in India have gone to strike on Wednesday to protest policies of the Narendra Modi government (BBC, Hindu). The strike seems to ...

By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley The friendly skies. The CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) have teamed up to fly armed drones over Syria, several U.S. officials confirmed to the Washington Post’s Greg Miller. Despite highly-touted plans for the Obama administration to scale back the amount of direct-strike work the CIA performs ...

The CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) are conducting a drone campaign against high-level Islamic State targets in Syria, the Washington Post reports. This clandestine campaign is being run separately from the international coalition’s effort and has targeted senior officials in the terrorist group, especially those working on supporting and expanding the Islamic State’s ...

After a midnight explosion in Tianjin killed dozens, citizen-journalists are pressing the government to do more and share more.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.

In Tehran’s bustling markets, high hopes for sanctions relief may not live up to the reality.

Tom Fletcher says goodbye to all that.