John Hayward

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar announced on Tuesday that he is officially a candidate for the presidency of the government he tried to overthrow by force less than two years ago.

On Monday evening, even as Chinese President Xi Jinping was holding a virtual summit with President Joe Biden, Chinese warplanes once again entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).

Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of deposed and slain Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi, filed the paperwork on Sunday to stand as a presidential candidate in Libya’s presidential election next month.

Al-Musalmi Al-Kabbashi, Sudan bureau chief for Al Jazeera News, was arrested on Sunday by Sudanese security forces who raided his home in Khartoum. The military junta currently ruling Sudan did not give any reason for his arrest.

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on Monday called for a full investigation into the allegations of sexual assault made by Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai against a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official.

Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), on Monday demanded honest answers from Moscow about the “large and unusual concentration” of Russian forces massing along the Ukrainian border.

Former Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) has suggested that President Joe Biden may not seek reelection come 2024.

The Iraqi Embassy in Minsk announced on Thursday it will organize an evacuation flight for Iraqi citizens “wishing to return” home from Belarus amid a migration crisis.

The State Department said on Thursday thatthe Iran-backed Houthi insurgency abducted at least 25 Yemenis who work for the United States. President Joe Biden lifted the Houthis' designation as a terrorist organization as one of his first actions in office.

The U.S. government on Thursday urged American citizens to leave Haiti, warning of the deteriorating security situation and severe fuel shortages.

Chinese state media warned on Friday that high U.S. inflation caused by President Joe Biden’s policies is threatening the prosperity of the entire world.

Patrick K. O'Donnell, military historian and author ofThe Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home,said on Veterans Day that the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on November 11, 1921, was a moment of "healing and

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Chinese state media decided Veterans Day to drop some anti-American propaganda, including posts by the People’s Daily celebrating Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro for outlasting American efforts to dislodge him, and hyping the Vietnam-era Gulf of Tonkin incident as a “clear-cut example of

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The Chinese government has grown concerned about falling birth rates and demographic decline over the past few years, but according to independent demographer He Yafu, China may have actually encountered negative population growth this year.

The U.S. and China released an unexpected joint declaration on climate change at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday, committing themselves to “accelerated actions in the critical decade of the 2020s” and multilateral cooperation to “hold the global average temperature increase

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In a phone conference with reporters on Monday, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West said the Biden administration is considering a “roadmap” to normalizing relations with the Taliban regime.

The Taliban held a military parade for its “Islamic Emirate Army” in the city of Kandahar on Monday, featuring U.S.-made weapons, armored fighting vehicles, and helicopters seized after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The president spoke about gas prices during an event at the Port of Baltimore to celebrate the passage of his $1.3 trillion infrastructure bill.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported three people were arrested for organizing a video game viewing party with over 2,000 attendees in the city of Wuhan, in the midst of China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic.

U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan Thomas West on Monday hoped the Taliban would be “successful” in its battle against the Islamic State, and hinted the new rulers of Afghanistan needed to sever their ties with al-Qaeda if they desire international recognition.