Foreign Policy

Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate

CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack

Libya |  WASHINGTON (AP)—The CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was…

Romney (left) and Obama make points at Tuesday night's debate.

The second debate

Politics |  In form, President Obama came back strongly in Tuesday's debate with Mitt Romney, but substantively he continues to lag behind the Republican candidate.

Clinton: I'm responsible for consulate security

Clinton: I'm responsible for consulate security

Libya |  LIMA, Peru (AP)—U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated on Tuesday her statement taking sole responsibility for security at all of America's…

Mitt Romney at Virginia Military Institute.

Needed: A new foreign policy

Foreign Policy |  On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He…

A Syrian boy, who fled his home with his family, stands near his tent at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, in Azaz.

Globe Trot 10.10

International |  The global economic recovery is “on the ropes,” according to a report from the Brookings Institution, with growth dissipating “in nearly all major…

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi

Who needs reform most: Egypt or America?

Egypt |  NEW YORK—Prior to leaving Egypt for the United Nations General Assembly, Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi told The New York Times the United States…

President Obama addressing the UN General Assembly

UN-clear

Religion |  President Obama’s UN speech sends muddled message, as momentum for international blasphemy laws grows

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Globe Trot 09.24

International |  Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—in a weekend interview with The Washington Post ’s David Ignatius, ahead of this week’s start of the UN…

Sri Lankan Muslims protest by burning effigies of President Obama and U.S. flags.

Our burning embassies and our president

Foreign Policy |  There have been riots and burnings from England to Indonesia. Islamist radicals murdered our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. All this, we are…

Lebanon
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Deadly politics

Politics |  It's a new season, and reality has overtaken rhetoric

Tunisian protesters break into the U.S. embassy in Tunis
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Mideast madness

Middle East |  Provoked or premeditated, the latest round of uprisings put the United States in its sights

Sri Lankan Muslims burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Globe Trot 09.19

International |  The State Department has reversed itself, admitting on Tuesday that it did hire a private British security firm to handle security inside the American mission…

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