Foreign Policy

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NAIROBI, Kenya — A new report says Kenya’s military has done a brisk business in sugar and charcoal in Kismayo, Somalia, since pushing al-Shabab from the southern port city in 2012, but the trade has become a key financial lifeline for the terrorist group it is there to fight. Published by the nonpartisan watchdog organization Journalists ...

The Israeli prime minister has come to make amends with the United States. At least for now.

Saudi women are running for office in upcoming municipal elections for the first time -- and discovering the rules as they go.

The onetime heavyweight champ has been ousted.

In what appears to be the result of a prank, a Google Maps search for the Islamic State's Russian acronym pinpoints a state-run television station in Moscow.

Liu Yiqian used credit card points to rise to the top of the art world.

The EU published clarifications Wednesday on its guidelines for labeling food made on Israeli settlements. But neither Palestinians nor Israelis seem too happy about it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Manal Omar continue their debate on the Quran, the Islamic State, and how to save the religion.

There are hints that the president of the DRC wants to delay presidential elections. Here’s why that would be a disaster.

Ford and General Motors are accused of using a similar emissions cheat to the one used by Volkswagen.

U.S. officials have long prodded China to open its economy and stop meddling with its markets and money. Will Xi finally listen?

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani sought Wednesday to reassure the United States that he does not condone the sexual abuse of boys by his nation’s security forces — a seamy cultural gap that has long been unacknowledged even as it has plagued the war effort. Ghani issued a statement promising to undertake “serious measures” to prevent ...

The recent stock market turbulence and rising questions about Xi’s competence mean China’s leadership has bigger issues to worry about than cybersecurity or bilateral trade.

Decades of marginalizing countries we don't see eye to eye with has gotten the United States nowhere. It's time to engage.

Putin wants to secure U.N. approval for his leap into the Middle East by couching it as a broad-front fight against Islamic terrorism. The United States is having none of it.

The world's 1.6 billion Muslims all are trying to make it Mecca at least once in their lifetimes. Who decides who gets to go?

A popular blogger argues that China's president is flaunting his country's strength to a city which once violently rejected Chinese people.

As Syrians died en route to Europe this summer, their dictator Instagrammed like all was well back home.

With Yemeni civilian deaths mounting, the Saudi government is pulling out all the stops to head off an independent human rights inquiry.