The covert aid program initiated under Carter became the backbone of the Afghan insurgency, setting the stage for the Soviet ...

U.S. lawmakers honored Jimmy Carter on Tuesday, as the body of the nation's 39th president arrived to lie in state in the U.S ...

Ties between China and U.S. ally the Philippines have soured in the past few years, with spats frequent as Manila, under ...

Lieutenant John Vanderstar, a New York City firefighter, received the Medal of Valor for rescuing a mother and child from a ...

U.S. President Joe Biden awarded the nation’s second-highest civilian honor to 20 people at a White House ceremony Thursday ...

Syrian new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa recently met with the Mideast nation's Christian leadership after a string of menacing attacks on religious minorities The war in Gaza has intensified the ...

'We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia. [...] We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,' he told Azerbaijani state television.

If there’s a global trend, Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer said at a summit in Canada in June, it’s that 'people are tired of the incumbents' Burkina Faso's military regime, in power since ...

2024 was a big year for elections. More than 70 national elections were held throughout the world, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Among the countries holding elections were ...

But as VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson reports, Trump’s plans could be complicated by a complex global interdependence on oil and gas supplies. A landmark hearing into ...

By VOA Fact Check estimates, top Russian officials made 135 public nuclear threats between February 2022 and December 2024. Vladimir Putin made 27, ranging from direct threats to ordering nuclear ...

The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has announced cooperation strategies with countries in the region to address the causes of migration. Meanwhile, however, a new migrant caravan is ...