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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in Tokyo on Monday, starting a four-day visit to the region, highlighting Washington's renewed focus on alliances in Indo-Pacific in the face of assertive China.
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea's leader, warned the Biden administration against "causing a stink at its first step" on Monday, hours after the White House said it had not received a response to its outreach to Pyongyang.
Scott Worden, US Institute of Peace Director Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs, joined Julie Mason to discuss the one year anniversary of US-Taliban Peace Deal.
This week marks ten years since Syria has been mired in a civil war that has displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead.
As it ends its first high-level diplomatic tour of Asia on Thursday, the Biden administration is banking on international alliances in the region to help stem the growing threat posed by North Korea’s ballistic missiles and nuclear capabilities.
One year after the signing of the February 29, 2020 US-Taliban provisional peace agreement, the Afghan group called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops by a May 1 deadline. Any attempt to renegotiate the accord will result in the failure of peace efforts, the Taliban warned in a statement released to the press...
Where the Obama administration spoke of a pivot to Asia, President Biden quickly dispatched his two most prominent Cabinet members to the region on their first overseas trip, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defining the relationship with Japan as vital to containing China in the Indo-Pacific.
When Pope Francis lands in Iraq on March 5 for an unprecedented papal visit to the country, he’ll begin three days of high-level religious diplomacy. In Baghdad, he will meet political leaders and Catholic priests and nuns at the site of an al-Qaeda attack in 2010. The next day, he will travel 100 miles south to...
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin''s India visit will signal the importance of the bilateral defence and security partnership, which has grown over the past decade, a top American defence expert has said.
The State Department has announced negotiations with the Taliban and the Afghan government will resume in Qatar. The Biden administration looks to be reviewing a deal made by the Trump administration while the Taliban has warned any change to a promised May 1st exit deal would ‘doom’ talks...