Russian military buildup in Syria leaves U.S. in quandary
WASHINGTON — Russia’s recent military buildup in Syria has perplexed the Obama administration and left it in a quandary as to how to respond, complicating Washington’s efforts to both combat Islamic...
View ArticleU.S. mulls abstention on U.N. vote condemning Cuban embargo
WASHINGTON — For the first time, the United States may be willing to accept a United Nations condemnation of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba without a fight, The Associated Press has learned. U.S....
View ArticleEurope, U.S. split over Syria talks
UNITED NATIONS — Nine nations or five? In speeches at this year’s U.N. gathering of world leaders, major powers are increasing calls for multilateral negotiations to end the war in Syria. But Europe...
View ArticlePutin takes on Syria, U.S. coalition wants to focus on Islamic State
PARIS — The presidents of Russia and France, which both started bombing Syria this week, held talks Friday about their military operations as they tried to overcome differences on whether Syrian...
View ArticleDanger abounds as multiple air forces crowd Syrian skies
WASHINGTON — The skies over Syria are increasingly crowded — and increasingly dangerous. The air forces of multiple countries are on the attack, often at cross purposes in Syria’s civil war, sometimes...
View Article10 things to know, Wednesday, Oct. 28
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. Who enters third GOP debate with momentum The Republican candidates for president will gather...
View ArticleIran taking seat at the table for Syria talks
BEIRUT — Iran takes part in international talks on Syria for the first time this week, giving it a voice in the effort to find a resolution to the more than 4-year-old civil war that has so far defied...
View ArticleAfter year of detente, Cuba’s psychic landscape changes
HAVANA — An American flag whips in the wind above the reopened U.S. Embassy in Cuba. Tens of thousands of foreign visitors have strolled down the cobblestone streets of Old Havana in recent months,...
View ArticleAs relations between U.S., Cuba continue to warm, baseball defectors teach...
HAVANA — Some of Major League Baseball’s biggest Cuban-born stars put dozens of boys through batting, pitching and catching drills in a sunny Havana ballpark, part of a three-day mission meant to warm...
View ArticleRegular U.S. flights to Cuba could go a long way toward improving business ties
HAVANA — The United States and Cuba are on the verge of a deal to restore regular airline flights, jumpstarting economic relations that have languished despite a year of rapid progress on the...
View ArticleJapan, wary of outsiders, keeps doors closed to refugees
TOKYO — For Mohammed, the perils of staying in Damascus crystalized when a sniper’s bullet whizzed past his head while he and his cousins were on his rooftop, watching the Syrian air force bomb rebel...
View ArticleIran accused of testing rockets near U.S. warships, commercial traffic
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near U.S. warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the American military said...
View ArticlePakistan, China, U.S., Afghanistan meet to seek roadmap to peace
ISLAMABAD — A key gathering opened on Monday in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad in which four major countries — Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States — hope to lay the roadmap to peace...
View ArticleU.S., Iran relationship thaws; prisoner swap sending some Americans home
WASHINGTON — Diplomatic triumph or travesty, America’s relationship with one of its most intractable foes took two giant leaps forward this weekend when Iran released four Americans in a prisoner swap...
View ArticlePrisoners freed from Iran land in Germany; all doing fine
LANDSTUHL, Germany — U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee says Michigan’s Amir Hekmati, who was just freed from Iran in a prisoner swap negotiated with Tehran, is in good shape and spirits, and looking forward to...
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Twitter disruption silences parts of U.S., Europe
Some Twitter users had to do without early Tuesday after sporadic outages knocked the social media site offline in the U.S. and Europe. The icon for the Twitter app is shown on an iPhone in San Jose,...
View ArticleRussia, U.S. at odds over Syria talks
MUNICH — Russia has proposed a March 1 ceasefire in Syria, U.S. officials say, but Washington believes Moscow is giving itself and the Syrian government three weeks to try to crush moderate rebel...
View ArticleObama administration approves first factory by U.S.-based company in Cuba...
HAVANA — The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small...
View ArticleAmerican Reform rabbis warn of alienation from Israel
JERUSALEM — A recent gathering of American Reform rabbis in Jerusalem was meant to celebrate the small gains the liberal Jewish movement has made in Israel in recent years. But a series of comments by...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s office disputes ‘surprise’ of canceled trip to U.S.
JERUSALEM — Israel on Tuesday disputed a White House claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”surprised” the Obama administration by cancelling a planned visit to Washington, saying that the White...
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