The government's retreat from the Bab el-Mandeb area hands the Houthis greater leverage over the maritime chokepoint, creating a potent ‌pressure point on global shipping while Iran ‌continues to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.

President Donald Trump has had a lot to say about his thinking on the way ahead in the Iran war since Republicans were trounced in last week’s midterm elections.

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “suffering and humiliation” endured by African enslaved people as he made a tangible show of remorse in Peru following his historic apology for the Holy See’s own role in legitimizing the African slave trade in the Americas.

A coalition of 57 countries seeking to accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels is pressing ahead despite the withdrawal of founding member Colombia. Ireland and the Pacific

An explosive device placed inside a car in a suburb of the Syrian capital exploded Saturday evening, killing two people, state TV and the Interior Ministry said.

Pope Leo XIV is putting the spotlight on Afro-Peruvians during a visit to a hub of their community. Leo will lead a prayer meeting at the sanctuary of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo in Zaña, where

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the planned meeting in Shenzhen must not echo 1945’s Yalta Conference, with great powers carving up the world between them.

Police officers stand at the scene of an armed attack in which Guatemalan lawmaker Julio Cesar Portillo Paz was seriously wounded and three police officers were killed, before Portillo Paz was taken to a hospital,