Steven Erlanger
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:26
For a European Union shaken by the British exit, cooperation on security, a major concern of voters on the Continent, was an obvious focus of last week’s summit meeting in Bratislava, the Slovak capital. The meeting was the first to exclude a British leader in more than 40 years.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 06:29
Six weeks before a critical summit meeting aimed at bolstering NATO’s deterrence against a resurgent Russia, the alliance is facing a long list of challenges. The first is to find a country to lead the last of four military units to be deployed in Poland and the three Baltic nations. But that, analysts say, could be the least of its problems.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 05:45
The British Parliament on Wednesday authorized airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State, in a vote that became a wider test of British willingness to play an active role in international affairs, and British warplanes made their first attacks hours later.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 07:22
Claiming it had achieved most of its objectives and pressured by Western allies to stop causing civilian casualties in Gaza, Israel moved to wind down its operations there on Monday — either unilaterally or through a new Egyptian-brokered cease-fire announced late in the day.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 07:24
With the election of a relatively moderate president in Iran and the rise of radical Sunni fighters in Syria and Iraq, Britain is pressing ahead to improve relations with Iran and reopen its embassy in Tehran.
Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 09:50
The American official agreed with Mr. Araghchi that “significant gaps” remained after three days of talks. “Iran still has to make some hard choices,” the official said. “We are concerned that progress is not being made and that time is short.”
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 11:51
Even Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Monday in Tehran that “the nuclear negotiations will lead nowhere,” expressing his well-known mistrust of the motives of the United States and its allies, a mistrust reciprocated in the American Congress.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:20
Mr. Obama has his problems, the prince said, but when a country has strong allies, “you should be able to give them the assurance that what you say is going to be what you do.”
Friday, July 11, 2008 - 00:00
She also is trying to avoid describing the details of her ordeal as an attractive woman in captivity in the jungle, a time when she was often chained, physically tortured and humiliated
Friday, July 4, 2008 - 00:00
PARIS — A jubilant France prepared Thursday to welcome Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician freed on Wednesday after six years of captivity by rebels in the Colombian jungle, while officials in Paris said that that the French government, w