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Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters Iraqi Forces Take Mosul
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi flew to the northern city and declared victory on Sunday.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Discusses the North Korea 'Menace' With China's President
On the last day of the G20 summit, the U.S. President sat down with Xi Jinping talk about ending Pyongyang’s missile program.
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Reuters Merkel's Impossible Role at the G20 Summit
With the U.S. trying to step out of some of the most important issues at the meeting, the German Chancellor was forced to play negotiator and host.
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Mary Altaffer / AP 122 Nations Approve 'Historic' Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
While the treaty faces many barriers to implementation, it signifies a profound international statement.
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Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack on Egyptian Soldiers
At least 23 soldiers were killed by gunfire and a suicide bomb in northern Sinai.
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Steffen Kugler / Bundesregierung / Reuters U.S. and Russia Agree to Cease-Fire in Syria
The agreement marks the nations’ first joint effort under the Trump administration to mitigate Syria’s ongoing civil war.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Tillerson Backs Policy of 'Peaceful Pressure' on North Korea
But the U.S. secretary of state warned “we don’t have many good options left” if it fails.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump and Putin's Rashomon Summit
The U.S. claims Trump pressed Russia on interference in the election, while Russia claims the U.S. accepted that the Kremlin is innocent. Who knows what to believe?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Strange, High-Pressure Work of Presidential Interpreters
The people who help bridge the language gap in meetings like Friday’s Trump-Putin summit serve as confidants, fact-checkers, and de facto diplomats.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Meeting With Putin
Officials from the two countries had differing accounts of what happened in the more than two-hour meeting.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters U.S. Fears Dispute Over Qatar Will Intensify
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will fly to Kuwait next week to meet with officials mediating the talks.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Economy Added 222,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Is at 4.4 Percent
The number of jobs added was better than expected.
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Markus Schreiber / AP More Than 70 Officers Injured in G20 Protests
Tensions escalated on Thursday as protesters hurled objects and set fire to vehicles, while officers responded with water cannons and tear gas.
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Axel Schmidt / Reuters Turkish Police Detain Activists on Suspicion of Terrorist Affiliations
Eight human-rights activists, including the local director of Amnesty International, are being held at police stations across Istanbul.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Republican Backlash Against Trump's Vote-Fraud Commission
GOP secretaries of state have pushed back on a request for voter data, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff says it could endanger national security.
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KCNA / Reuters What Can China Do About North Korea?
President Trump says Beijing isn’t doing enough, but it’s difficult to measure the country’s actual influence.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Exit the Government Ethics Chief
Walter Shaub, who became an unlikely star for challenging President Donald Trump’s flouting of norms, will leave office six months early.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How Trump Sows Confusion and Doubt
The president avoids outright denials of inconvenient facts, preferring to cast doubt through innuendo and misdirection.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump, in Warsaw Speech, Criticizes Russia's 'Destabilizing' Role in Ukraine, Syria
The president also reaffirmed his commitment to NATO’s mutual-defense pact.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Weighs a 'Pretty Severe' Response to North Korea's ICBM Test
The president said “something will have to be done about” the Kim Jong Un regime’s actions.
