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West can help aid Iran’s freedom movement, not by vacillating, but by linking the regime’s treatment of its people

South Korea wants to turn the Olympic thaw into more substantive negotiations with North Korea

Democrats must not throw a spanner in the works during the confirmation of the incoming US secretary of state

Trump should know that empty promises are a favourite tactic of the North Korean regime

Shirin Ebadi makes a strong case to reject the very core of the constitution: Rule by supreme leader

Administration hardliners like Bolton are making sure that the US president does not embrace a weak deal

The decision may spur Assange to extradite himself to the US and that is a complication the outgoing president will relish handing over to Trump

WikiLeaks did favour a candidate in the US election. And the candidate it aided is so hostile to the public’s right to information that he won’t even release his tax returns

These days, he’s playing the influence game against insiders who hadn’t even been born when he was Richard Nixon’s secretary of state

Al Abadi rejected a compromise formula that offered joint administration of the Kirkuk military base for both sides with a US general to settle disputes

Without a common enemy to unite them, US allies who fought Daesh together return to fighting one another

Washington will outline a new aggressive approach to countering Tehran’s threats all over the globe and spur US allies to begin to address the nuclear deal’s flaws