The Saudi-led coalition forces have conducted air strikes for the second night on Thursday in Yemen's capital and several other cities that destroyed military targets of the Shiite Houthi group and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh who was accused of allying the Houthis to overrun the country.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is in Washington this week in a bid to shore up relations with the U.S., spotlighting a shaky security situation in Afghanistan as the war-torn country is not yet ready for U.S. troops to leave.
The likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's status as the only female contender in the race for the White House gives her a decided advantage over other candidates, as more women than men are expected to vote, U.S. experts said.
A recent editorial by the New York Times (NYT) serves as a perfect example of the sour grapes mentality on the U.S. side about the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
It's no secret the U.S.-Israel relations have soured over the past several years. Much of it has to do with personal animosity between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama.
U.S.-Israel relations are likely to remain strained after Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral win this week, as the Israeli leader and the White House have butted heads for several years now, U.S. experts said.
Jeb Bush topped other potential U.S. presidential candidates within the Republican Party (GOP) in a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday, but he needs to broaden his base of supporters if he hopes to clinch the GOP nomination, experts said.
Despite a petulant and cynical Washington, the three leading European powers decided to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) headquartered in Beijing on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's fresh desire to re-ignite negotiations with Syria's Assad reflects a possible shift in the international approach toward solving the conflict in Syria, analysts said.
As the Syria crisis enters its fifth year with no tangible political solution in sight, Syrian politicians blame foreign intervention for the protracted conflict.
Questions remain over 2016 White House potential contender Hillary Clinton's private server and email account, but the controversy could fade into the background as election season gets fully underway.
Italy's highest court on Tuesday definitively declared Silvio Berlusconi innocent of charges that he paid an under-age exotic dancer for sex and used his influence to cover it up. But don't expect to see the former prime minister and billionaire media mogul formally return to the political arena any time soon.
A reconciliation is only possible if Japan faces its past squarely, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her first visit to Tokyo in seven years on Monday, while asking Japan to be more honest in dealing with its history.
A brief cyber attack on Italy's Tuscan website over the weekend, which was launched by a group claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic State(IS), has raised concern on possible terrorism risks the country is facing with.
The euro's dramatic slide against the U.S. dollar and other world currencies should be good news for the Italian economy, attracting more non-European tourists and lowering the prices for Italian experts. But a closer look at the numbers reveals some worrying aspects as well.
Good behavior is the reason why Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has ended his one-year social duties for a tax fraud verdict earlier than planned, but experts say this will likely not be enough to allow him running for political office again.
The 2016 White House hopeful Hillary Clinton's sole use of a private email account to conduct government business is raising hackles among critics, and experts say it could hurt her run for the presidency.
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