Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi, the top government official representing the country’s Sunni minority, on Tuesday denied claims that Baghdad is pressing the Trump administration to directly arm and train the country’s Sunni militias to counter the growing influence of Iranian-backed Shia paramilitaries.

One of Gerald Rauenhorst’s earliest childhood memories was of walking behind the family wagon, loaded down with possessions. The Catholic family of 10 had lost their southwestern Minnesota farm to foreclosure in the 1930s and were now destined to scratch by as tenant farmers.

The Ulysses S. Grant who emerges from Ron Chernow’s new biography, “Grant,” is a man with quite a story to tell. I could easily imagine the pitch for a modern-day memoir: Grant’s struggles with alcoholism, his difficult relationship with his father, his improbable journey to...

Iraq needs "a new national partnership on the basis of the constitution” that could include confederal control of the disputed areas, Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi said at a think-tank event in the United States on Tuesday.

FOR the first time since 1999, there are serious question marks over the PML-N’s future. A key reason is the family equation: can the Sharif brothers maintain their united front going into the 2018 polls? Or will this family bond break?

“What about the Native Americans? They don’t have a problem with it,” contended the Pilot (a white male). “That’s because you people have virtually silenced them …,” I insisted. “You People!?” exclaimed the Veteran (a white male).

Action, patience, and determination, in order to create a peaceful and harmonious world, were the words of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to a group of young leaders from various countries.

The room brimmed with a shade of reconciliation and hope when the delegate from conflict-ridden backgrounds met with the Nobel peace prizewinner and global poster boy for peace, His Holiness the Dalai Lama earlier today.