The Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be administered across the executive branch, aimed at uncovering leaks to the press. As someone who has taken roughly a ...

Pseudo-scientific polygraph tests may discourage internal candor and divert investigative energy while failing to stop leaks.

The Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be administered across the executive branch, ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades ...

The Council today appointed Ralf Schröder as new head of mission for the European Union Advisory Mission in Iraq (EUAM Iraq).

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Iraq and considered and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting on a lapse-of-time basis ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 12. On July 12, Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, held an expanded meeting with ...

President Donald Trump has demanded a record-breaking 300 basis point interest rate cut and announced steep new tariffs on 16 nations.

Since re-entering office, President Trump has announced a barrage of tariffs to try to rewire the global economy.