International Affairs

Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi confirmed that Iran's Supreme National Security Council ordered internet service to be suspended amid unrest.

The president publicly backed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the aftermath of the killing despite evidence of his involvement.

North Korea's official news agency said South Korea "will have to face horrible war disasters after getting entangled in the world's hottest issues the U.S. interfere in."

President Donald Trump has consistently argued in favor of ending Middle East wars, while holding on to foreign oil assets— feeding into longstanding criticism about the intention of U.S. intervention.

President Donald Trump has said a force of Americans will remain in the east of the country to guard the oil fields there.

The president has said that a deal to end his long-running trade war with Beijing is close at hand, but has Trump succeeded in his goal of bringing China to heel?

"They said he had committed suicide in jail. However, he was killed because he knew a lot of vital secrets connected with very important people in the British and American regimes," Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said.

North Korea has lodged multiple protests over planned joint U.S.-South Korean war games, and said Wednesday it would respond to force in kind.

The base's commander said the "aviation commandant's office" will allow Russian helicopters to support patrols in the Turkish border region.

The 20th century genocide killed more than 1 million people, and the Turkish government still denies it occurred.

Newsweek is evaluating President Donald Trump's statements made after meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid strained relations over the renewed violence in northeastern Syria.

Richard Haass said Trump's meeting with Erdogan in Washington is further evidence of the president's affinity for authoritarians.

General Mazloum Kobani said the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria has opened up new opportunities for ISIS remnants.

Former U.S. Navy intelligence and counter-terrorism specialist Malcolm Nance suggested, "Putin leads Donald Trump around on a leash."

Erdogan complained Tuesday that neither the U.S. nor Russia has been able to "clean" the Kudish-led forces out of Turkey's invasion zone.

"We don't know these people particularly well," a senior State Department official said of Syrian rebel groups accused of atrocities, adding that the U.S. was "asking the Turks to chase them down."

"Something is happening in the minds of those who normally create the geopolitical agenda," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The 2019 Disaster Management Exchange "aims at sharing experience in and upgrading capabilities of humanitarian rescue and disaster relief of the two militaries."

Baha Abu Al-Atta, a top commander for the Islamic Jihad organization, was killed alongside his wife on Tuesday in an Israel airstrike.

The U.S. is set to deploy some 600 soldiers to guard eastern Syria's oil fields against Islamic State remnants, though Trump has said he wants to bring in a U.S. company to develop the resources.

Assad's forces have used tactics including indiscriminate bombing, chemical weapons and mass disappearances in their effort to bring all of Syria back under the dictator's control.

Dara Khosrowshahi said the murder was a "mistake" and suggested that the Saudi government has taken the fallout "seriously."

President Evo Morales said Sunday he would resign after the military and police called on him to step down following weeks of unrest over his alleged rigging of last month's presidential election.

Syrian Democratic Forces commander says his group "should be part of the general administration of Syria, within the constitution" and must have "its own exclusivity within Syria's general system of protection."

Iranian Army Air Defense Force Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said that the "decisive act of firing missiles came in response to a foreign invasion of our airspace."

The incident is the latest in a decades-long series of troubling events eliciting anger from local Japanese communities toward U.S. military personnel as well as their own government.

Discussing ISIS' new head, a senior State Department official said that "we intend to subject him and any other ISIS leader to unrelenting pressure, using all the tools at our disposal."

A North Korean diplomat hit Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo with a slew of insults, calling him "an idiot and villain" after he criticized a recent multiple launch rocket test.

A day after Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wife, sister and brother-in-law were detained, he said a DNA test proved one of his children was in custody as well.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies said Tehran has established a regional network of some 200,000 fighters.