A key goal for Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has been disarming Iraq’s militias, including those backed by, and serving, Iran. The Trump administration endorses that goal, but its economic pressure on Iran is making it harder to attain.

Iran and Oman on Tuesday discussed a proposal to establish a jointly managed shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.

The world largely moved on from the Rohingya crisis. But the exodus has not stopped, aid is shrinking and a generation of refugees is growing up with little prospect of going home.

Colombian President Abelardo De la Espriella ordered police and immigration authorities to begin to identify and deport migrants without legal status.

Former senior Russian diplomat says U.K. factories making drones for Ukraine "could be attacked - not by Russia, but from unknown sources."

Liberia’s former vice president has been sent to prison to await trial on drug trafficking and other charges. A court on Tuesday denied Jewel Howard-Taylor's request to be released on

CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in Moscow on Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said, for a rare visit by a U.S. spy agency chief as Russia slogs through its fifth year of war in Ukraine. U.S. officials had not announced Ratcliffe’s trip,

The Kurdish-led Syrian ⁠Democratic ⁠Forces has been ⁠dissolved, the armed militant group's leader said on ​Tuesday, a major step in the integration plan agreed on earlier ‌this year with the ‌Islamist-led government in Damascus.