
A seventh round of Syrian peace talks has started in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. The Kazakh Foreign Ministry said all participants for the talks had arrived on October 30 for two days of bilateral and multilateral meetings. Two separate series of peace talks are being conducted in an attempt to end ...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called North Korea a “global threat” Monday and said he backed tighter sanctions against it during a visit to Japan, which has been targeted by Pyongyang’s provocations. Stoltenberg is in Tokyo to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other senior officials including defense minister Itsunori Onodera ...