The Latest Breaking News from Jimmy Carter

The former president and first lady sparked divorce rumors when Michelle failed to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral and President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January

The Trump administration’s decision to bomb Iran dramatically marks the now nearly half-century of hostility between the United States and Iran, which began in 1979 with Iran’s takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the taking of 52 diplomatic hostages.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

Who said the biggest tragedies of human history can't be funny?

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a terrible friendship. How did Merz's predecessors cope with the respective men in the Oval Office? Euronews checks out some of the key pairings through time.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the enduring roots of Middle Eastern conflict, the rise and fall of cultural panics, and why Texas may be the blueprint—and battleground—for America's future.

Republican voters yearn to be subjects. Donald Trump understood that instinctively

US international affairs scholar who pointed to soft power as a complement to military and economic might

Democrats were once the party of progress — but in the 21st century, they seem paralyzed. Let me explain

Former presidents don’t criticize their successors in public.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish-born rival of Kissinger, is the subject of a highly readable biography by Edward Luce