A poised yet angry Britain heads toward election as police carry out new raids

Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar last year, home of the American-led air war command in the fight against the Islamic State. American forces have important commands distributed across the Arab states.

Fifty years ago, war transformed the Middle East. From June 5 to June 10, 1967—known to Israelis as the Six-Day War and to Arabs as the 1967 War—Israel defeated three Arab armies, gained territory four times its original size and transformed from a …

Technology companies have defended their handling of extremist content following the London terror attack. Prime Minister Theresa May called for areas of the internet to be closed because tech giants had provided a “safe space” for terrorist ideology.

Had it been a painting, the artist could’ve been criticized for failing to imagine a more nuanced metaphor to capture the perils of suburban existence.

A neighbor shot and killed an Oklahoma man who was trying to drown his 3-month-old twins in a bathtub, police said Sunday. The babies were “doing great” Sunday after having been released from the hospital, police in Ada told NBC News.

CNN host Reza Aslan apologized Sunday night for calling President Trump “a piece of [expletive]” in a tweet. “I should not have used a profanity to describe the President when responding to his shocking reaction to the #LondonAttacks,” Aslan, who hosts …

WASHINGTON – Russian President Vladimir Putin says claims about Russian involvement in U.S. elections are untrue, and says the United States actively interferes with elections in other countries.

Donald Trump came to the presidency on a wave of overheated rhetoric about the terrorist threat, the failures of his predecessors, and promises, as he said in his inaugural address, to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which …

SYDNEY – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met here Monday with senior Australian officials, stressing that despite the Trump administration’s withdrawal from key environmental and trade agreements, the relationship …

The rest of the world shouldn’t be telling the United States how to manage its carbon dioxide emissions, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said in an interview Sunday.

Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on iTunes here. | Subscribe via Stitcher. When President Donald Trump addressed NATO leaders during his debut overseas trip little more than a week ago, he surprised and disappointed European allies who hoped—and …

To hold or not to hold? That is the dilemma facing holders of debt issued by the Venezuelan government and its sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities, including the national oil company PDVSA.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – An eastern Kentucky disability lawyer scheduled to be sentenced next month for defrauding the government of nearly $600 million has disappeared, the FBI said.

West African regional group Ecowas has in principle approved Morocco’s membership application despite it being in North Africa, sources tell the BBC.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Midway through their news conference in Berlin last month, French President Emmanuel Macron turned to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and laid out a quid pro quo on strengthening Europe’s single currency project.

In a politically unsettled nation, military communities have long been a rock for the Republican Party, solid and true. But new polling data suggest those places have developed some concerns about President Donald Trump.

The only Democrat candidate running for office in Iowa’s 4th congressional district has withdrawn from the election. Kim Weaver called a stop to her campaign against Republican incumbent Steve King on Saturday, saying death threats at her home and …

Just days after saying he’d skip the Puerto Rican Day Parade for political reasons, Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey missed the Celebrate Israel Parade on Sunday for personal ones – and his primary opponent jumped at the chance to take him to …