China Chases Indonesia’s Fishing Fleets, Staking Claim to Sea’s Riches
NATUNA ISLANDS, Indonesia — Dedi knows where the fish run strongest in Indonesian waters off the Natuna islands. The Chinese know, too. Backed by armed...
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Crisis in African Region Is Becoming France’s Forever War
AWAGATE FOREST, MALI — For two days, dozens of armored vehicles carrying 180 elite soldiers with the French Foreign Legion lumbered over West Africa’s scrubby...
As Pandemic Rages, Sri Lanka’s President Pardons a War Criminal
Sri Lanka’s president has pardoned a soldier who was sentenced to death for killing eight civilians during the country’s civil war, leading to accusations that...
We Need a Unified Military Command for Disaster Response
President Trump has finally called in the military in the nation’s war against the coronavirus. But precious time was lost in the weeks since he...
How the Promise of American Jobs Became Entangled in a Faraway War
Episode 30: ‘Open Arms’ Producer/Director Alyse Shorland U.S. defense contractors used the promise of new jobs to persuade the government to approve billions of dollars’...
‘This War Is a New Kind of War’
The United States can and should “go big” to fight the coronavirus. It has done so before, at extraordinary speed and scale. It has tools...
German Military Laptop Sold on eBay Included Classified Missile Information
BERLIN — Weighing in at a hefty 11 pounds, with a tiny 128 MB of working memory and a decades-old Pentium III processor, a used...
In Afghanistan, Coronavirus Complicates War and Peace
KABUL, Afghanistan — When the coronavirus began spreading, many Afghans were in denial even after it became an obvious and deadly crisis in neighboring Iran....
Pakistan Builds Border Fence, Limiting Militants and Families Alike
TORKHAM, Pakistan — Above the trucks and travelers lining up at the main eastern gateway between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a glinting new landmark scales the...
U.S. Airstrikes Kill Iraqi Soldiers and Police, Iraqi Officials Say
BAGHDAD — Iraqi military officials gave a scathing condemnation of the United States military on Friday for airstrikes launched overnight that they said had killed...