Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday agreed to a Trump administration deal for a five-day halt in Ankara’s Syria incursion to allow the U.S. to help Kurdish fighters exit a 20-mile border buffer zone, as Congress struggled to respond to White House moves that sparked the crisis.
Some U.S. foreign policy “realists” are cheering on President Trump’s recent course change in the Middle East, saying that despite its clumsy implementation, the move cuts through contradictions at the heart of the American policy and puts the onus of regional powers to resolve Syria’s eight-year-civil war and prevent an Islamic State resurgence there.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday that would rebuke President Trump’s troop pullout from Syrian and slap harsh sanctions on Turkey unless it ends the military action in the region.
Senators fought Thursday over how to try to patch up the mess in Syria, but it quickly became clear that beyond being frustrated with President Trump, there’s little unity on what, exactly, the U.S. should do.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday signaled that there will be a rocky path in the upper chamber for a rebuke of President Trump’s military pullout from Syria.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday said the “greatest insult” from a testy meeting at the White House on Wednesday was the lack of a clear policy from President Trump on how to contain the Islamic State terrorist group, or ISIS.
The USS Constitution is sailing in Boston Harbor to celebrate its 222nd birthday and the U.S. Navy's birthday.
Meir Shamgar, a long-serving former chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, has died. He was 94.
The latest on Turkey's invasion of northern Syria (all times local):
A young man flagged for Islamic radicalism is in French custody on preliminary terrorism charges after threatening a Sept. 11-style plane hijacking and attack, authorities said Friday.
The White House acknowledged that President Donald Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a shifting new explanation about events at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
Russia's foreign ministry says police stopped three American diplomats trying to enter an area of northern Russia where a secrecy-shrouded explosion at a navy range caused a brief spoke in radioactivity levels.
Former Defense Secretary James N. Mattis hit back at his old boss at a white-tie gala in New York, saying that he's not just an overrated general, he's the greatest overrated general.
Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is laughing off an insult hurled at him by President Donald Trump.
A court in Mexico ordered the re-arrest of seven soldiers on abuse of authority charges for the 2014 army killings of suspects in a grain warehouse.
Sweeping election security legislation pending on Capitol Hill has cleared a key hurdle as members of Congress look to prevent foreign interference in the 2020 presidential race.
A U.S. judge has thrown out a federal permit for the Washington state shellfish industry that failed to comply with environmental regulations.
The Senate voted Thursday to sustain President Donald Trump's veto of Democratic-sponsored legislation reversing his raid of military base project money to pay for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Donald Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a shifting new explanation about events at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
