Prospects grow for Yemen talks in Sweden next week

US Senate advances measure to cut support for Saudi-led coalition, in rebuke to Trump

Trump hits back after rebuke from US chief justice

President’s criticism of judge who ruled against immigration order leads to intervention

US call for Yemen ceasefire should not be judged on face value

Analysis: Washington offer is not even-handed and invites Saudis to expand offensive

International pressure increases for an end to Yemen conflict

US calls for immediate cessation of hostilities in the region ahead of planned UN talks

EU's future in focus 100 years after birth of Czechoslovakia

Macron calls for EU solidarity as Merkel and Mattis also join festivities

Trump marks ‘moment when America fought back’ in Pennsylvania

President visits Shanksville 9/11 memorial site on 17th anniversary of attacks

Donald Trump accuses Google of prioritising bad stories about him

President also criticises Twitter, Facebook, claiming he has had ‘thousands of complaints’

US hails Balkan ties as Russia grumbles before summit

Moscow irked by Macedonia’s Nato invitation and expulsions from Greece

North Korea still poses ‘extraordinary threat’ to US, says Trump

Pentagon ‘indefinitely suspends’ major military exercise with South Korea

Kurdish group in Syria open to talks with Assad regime

Syrian Democratic Council would have to break with US to achieve rapprochement

Trump and Macron: a key test for an unlikely alliance

The French president has worked hard to cultivate his US counterpart, but Iran will show how much influence he really has

UN Security Council meets after coalition attack on suspected Syrian chemical weapons sites

US ambassador to UN says US ‘locked and loaded’ if Syrians further use chemical weapons

Limited bombardment reflects little appetite for engagement

Pentagon appears to have persuaded White House of need for narrowly targeted attack

Britain rejects ‘grotesque lie’ about helping to fake attack

UN inspectors arrive in Syria to investigate last week’s chemical weapons assault

Russia claims Syria chemical attack a ‘fabrication’ by a foreign power

More than 40 people were killed in the strike in Douma last week, WHO says

Analysis: Destroying Syria’s air force is a risky option for Trump

US president keen on sending strong message to Assad, but at what potential cost?

Trump says he will use military to protect US border with Mexico

US president threatens to halt aid to Central America over ‘caravan’ of US-bound migrants

Donald Trump’s curious relationship with the US military

President who was exempted from serving in Vietnam is planning a military parade

Russia warns about jihadi anti-aircraft missiles after jet downed in Syria

Regional powers have supplied shoulder-fired missiles

Transgender people allowed enlist in US army from January

Judge denied request by Trump’s administration to enforce ban on transgender troops

Isis fighters smuggled out of Raqqa by US, UK and Kurds, BBC claims

‘Raqqa’s Dirty Secret’ says 250 fighters with families and arms were given safe passage

Pentagon chief says US goal in North Korea is diplomacy, not war

James Mattis says North Korean nuclear weapons ‘threaten others with catastrophe’

All eyes now on Tehran after Trump’s fiery speech on nuclear deal

Major shift in US policy on Iran alarms America’s allies – particularly in Europe

Prospect of Trump reneging on Iran nuclear deal prompts alarm

For US allies the very real possibility of the deal being reopened is a nightmare scenario

South Korea urges restart of visits for families split by border

Seoul makes plea in overture towards better relations with volatile neighbour

North Korea, Dreamers, Irma . . . a week in Trump’s world

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma took attention from a stormy week in the White House

North Korea: US patience 'not unlimited', UN told

Further sanctions urged after regime claims to have tested hydrogen bomb

UN Security Council to meet over North Korean nuclear test

Trump accuses South Korea of ‘appeasing’ North which has become a ‘great threat’

US considering arming Ukraine to counter Russian aggression

Moscow says military support would worsen fighting that has killed 10,000 in three years

US deepens military ties with Ukraine in effort to end conflict

Washington considers giving powerful weapons to Kiev despite Russian warnings

Nato welcomes Trump’s decision to increase troops in Afghanistan

Trump reverses on campaign pledges saying withdrawal could create vacuum for terrorists

Maureen Dowd: Will Trump the blowhard blow us up?

Can two belligerent leaders living in fantasy worlds taunt us into a nuclear war?

Kim Jong-un: ‘He’s rational, not crazy’

North Korea’s leader is an easy target for jokes but calling him mad underestimates him

US secretary seeks to cool escalating crisis with North Korea

Rex Tillerson uses diplomatic approach after Trump’s ‘fire and fury’ speech

Maureen Dowd: Trump’s sadism leaves him impotent

US president is trapped in a caricature of masculinity that corrodes his judgment

Donald Trump and the limits of the US constitution

The president is pushing up against document’s boundaries - and may reveal its flaws

Trump bans transgender people from US army

US president’s decision criticised by John McCain among others

Trump has put the generals in charge with predictable consequences

UN war crimes investigators accused the US and allied Kurdish-dominated DemocraticForces of being responsible for a 'staggering loss of civilian life' in the battle for Raqqa

Trump thanks China for North Korea help but says it hasn’t worked

Anger over death of US student Otto Warmbier ahead of US-China security talks

Cuba concerned over possible policy changes by Trump

US president’s new policy towards the island could include tightening of travel rules

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