I ask the kind reader's indulgence to reuse the exact title I previously employed in this space on December 23, 2009. At that time, speaking of the "perplexity" of a superpower like the United States ...

Thomas Tuchel said he did not feel burdened by the weight of history as he bids to lead England to a first World Cup final in ...

Russia and Ukraine stepped up their battle over the Black Sea and key trade routes on Wednesday, with Moscow killing three people in an attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and Kyiv's drone ...

Yemeni Minister of Information Moammar Al-Eryani said on Wednesday that the state will not tolerate any new violations, and ...

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had sentenced an active-duty soldier to five years in prison for sending videos of ...

Was the Russian-Ukrainian war a direct cause for the return of the era of Eastern spies to Europe, at such a high level, for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989? It seems clear ...

An Israeli airstrike killed a man, his wife and their six-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian health officials said as talks to advance the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal ...

Oil extended gains on Wednesday as President Donald Trump reimposed a naval blockade on all Iranian ports and Tehran launched ...

Sudan risks sliding backwards into deeper hunger as conflict, aid funding cuts and rising agricultural costs driven by ...

A senior ISIS security official arrested in Lebanon had been living in the country on a “semi-permanent” basis, Lebanese judicial sources said. Investigators suspect he served as the group’s general ...

A series of high-level meetings between Egypt and Türkiye has culminated in the first visit by an Egyptian defense minister ...

Kuwait’s military said on Tuesday its air defenses are responding to an attack. The General Staff of the Kuwait Armed Forces ...