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A top House Democrat said Wednesday that U.S. troops would be following "illegal orders" from President Trump if they used military force against Greenland without congressional authorization.

Critics are off the mark when they claim the Trump administration's foreign and national security policy is centered on the idea of "retreating globally," according to Nadia Schadlow, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute who served as a key ...

U.S. forces in a two-week stretch destroyed more than 70 Islamic State targets in Syria, struck extremists in northern Nigeria and carried out a daring raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from a heavily guarded compound in Caracas.

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it's marketing Venezuelan crude oil for sale and will control the flow of crude from the South American country "indefinitely" as U.S. forces seized two sanctioned tankers in Atlantic waters.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Trump administration is not seriously considering military action to acquire Greenland but is pursuing "diplomatic channels."

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung returned Wednesday from a state visit to China where he had discussed contentious matters, including Yellow Sea territorial issues, Beijing's ban on K-pop and Pyongyang's refusal to communicate with Seoul.

The General Services Administration barred a Hampton Inn in Minnesota from the government's travel and lodging programs this week after the hotel refused to let ICE personnel make reservations.

A U.S. official says U.S. forces have boarded a Venezuela-linked sanctioned oil tanker in the North Atlantic after pursuing it for weeks.

Clashes between Syrian government troops and the Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday left four people dead and others wounded in Aleppo, as Damascus scrambles to integrate the Kurdish-led rebel militia into the regular army.

Iran's army chief threatened preemptive military action Wednesday over the "rhetoric" targeting the Islamic Republic, likely referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that if Tehran "violently kills peaceful protesters," America "will come ...