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Cuba and the United States have dramatically reduced the rate of human trafficking since reaching a landmark accord in January but risk losing those gains if the two neighbors fail to resume high-level talks, Cuban Interior Ministry officials said in an exclusive interview. During bilateral talks in the final days of former U.S. President Barack […]

On Thursday, President Trump appeared before NATO leaders in Brussels to once again urge the organization’s members to meet their financial obligations to the alliance.  Each NATO member-state is mandated to devote two percent of their gross domestic product to defense, but only five of the 28 members are currently doing so. The American President […]

The 2018 budget proposal as presented by the Trump administration today calls for significant cuts to federal spending across the board, and features only a modest request to begin construction on the controversial “Trump border wall” along America’s southern border. The wall, which became a source of controversy during the campaign, has long been a […]

The forces of the Syrian Army have claimed to have taken parts of a Damascus suburb away from Syrian rebels. Syrian state-run television has reported the Army has taken a major suburb on the east side of the city, driving out the rebels. The opposition Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels remain in […]

President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House today, a highly-anticipated meeting between the two leaders of a critical relationship in the Global War on Terror that has been hindered lately by policy decisions from both countries. Certain to be at the top of the list for […]

MOSCOW — In their first publicly announced conversation since the United States launched a Tomahawk cruise-missile strike in Syria last month, President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the humanitarian crisis in Syria in a phone call Tuesday, with both countries expressing interest in working toward a cease-fire in the region. The two men […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is beefing up his military forces in the Arctic on a scale that hasn’t been seen since the days of the USSR and the Cold War. He’s reopening closed bases and opening new ones in a bid to control the cold but natural resource-rich region One such base holds the 80th […]

When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sat down with leaders in Saudi Arabia last week, a top White House official traveling with him offered up a new label for the Pentagon chief, who is well known as a combat-hardened former general: “favorite of the president.” The depiction from deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, however lighthearted, […]

American Secretary of Defense James Mattis visited the headquarters of NATO’s Operation Resolute Support in the Afghan capital on Monday, and took the opportunity to reaffirm American support in the fight against terrorist organizations like ISIS and the Taliban who were responsible for an attack that claimed the lives of over a hundred Afghan soldiers […]

Now it’s really on: Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed Saturday at a “Patriots Day” rally in Berkeley, the third time the groups engaged in violent confrontations on city streets in recent months. Fistfights broke out near Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, where Trump supporters had scheduled a rally. Fireworks and smoke […]

In his toughest assessment yet of the escalating North Korean ­nuclear crisis, Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Friday that a conflict could erupt “at any moment” – and whoever provoked it would pay the price. Analysts said Wang’s warning reflected the danger of an imminent threat. “Tensions have risen … and one has the […]

In a meeting with the NATO Secretary General, President Trump voiced strong support for the historic alliance, causing many in the media sphere to label it a “major reversal” in the President’s opinion. Citing the strong critiques Trump made of NATO during the 2016 presidential campaign, saying that NATO was not doing enough to fight […]