Detention and Deportation at the Edge of Immigration Law
A Texas detention center and far-flung deportations are testing the limits of U.S. immigration policy A 19-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo says she wakes each…
Xi Revives Taiwan Outreach With Beijing Meeting
Xi Meets Taiwan Opposition Leader in Rare Beijing Encounter President Xi Jinping of China met on Thursday in Beijing with Cheng Li-wun, the chair of Taiwan’s Kuomintang, in the first…
A Ceasefire Tested in Hormuz and Islamabad
A Fragile Truce Faces Its First Test The two-week ceasefire meant to halt the widening war around Iran was showing signs of fraying almost as soon as it began, with…
Hungary’s Defining Election
A Defining Vote for Hungary, and a Test for Europe Hungary heads to the polls on Sunday in what is widely seen as the most serious threat yet to Prime…
Islamabad Talks Test Fragile U.S.-Iran Truce
The ceasefire that halted six weeks of fighting between the United States and Iran was meant to open a path to wider diplomacy. Instead, as negotiators prepared to gather in…
Islamabad’s Fraught Bid to Hold a Ceasefire Together
Islamabad Becomes the Center of a Fragile Peace Effort Pakistan was moving ahead on Friday with plans to host high-stakes talks between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, pressing…
As Ceasefire Holds With Iran, Israel Keeps Up Strikes in Lebanon
Even as diplomats worked to shore up a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, Israel on Thursday pressed ahead with airstrikes in Lebanon, underscoring how one of the…
Ceasefire With Iran Opens New Battles in Washington and Beyond
A fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran is rippling far beyond the battlefield, stirring a new confrontation in Washington over presidential war powers, prompting warnings of lasting damage…
Britain Warns of Russian Submarines Near Critical Atlantic Infrastructure
Britain said on Wednesday that it had recently tracked three Russian submarines operating near critical undersea infrastructure in the North Atlantic, a public warning from London that reflects a deepening…
Trump’s Third-Country Deportation Push Faces Growing Resistance
The Trump administration is pressing ahead with one of the most contested elements of its immigration agenda: deporting people not only to their home countries, but to nations with which…