
Ms. McKay is a war and humanitarian-focused international correspondent and…
The Persian Gulf powerhouse and host to U.S. Central Command plays a pragmatic game as it shuffles for regional and global influence.

Some loyalists see the president’s increasing focus on Israel, Ukraine, Venezuela, and China as distractions from the movement’s ‘America First’ agenda.

Investigators are now asking how far the gang’s global footprint is expanding — and what threat it poses beyond the region that spawned it.

The popular mayor of Istanbul faces a potential sentence of more than 2,000 years on charges that independent analysts see as politically motivated.

The paramilitary force has grown richer and more institutionalized, yet lost the mythic leadership, strategic agility, and regional awe that once defined it.

Despite progress, a practice that America condemns elsewhere as a human rights abuse remains legal under some circumstances in 34 states.


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