Diplomats still have time to plan their next major engagement on the global sports stage: the 2026 World Cup in North America ...

When Muriel Bowser took office Jan. 2, 2015, as mayor of DC, nobody had yet heard of Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, DOGE or AI.

The life of Mir Hussain, chronicled in the documentary “My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan,” feels distant and foreign yet at the same time deeply relatable and personal.

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United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson shakes hands with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon at Villa Somalia in 2013. (AMISOM Public Information / Flickr) Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is ...

Somaliland's representative in Washington, D.C., Bashir Goth, sits between the flags of Somaliland and the United States in his office in Alexandria, Va. (Washington Diplomat) On one of Bashir Goth’s ...

At left: Guatemala, Czech Republic, Cambodia, Zaire, Australia (Queensland), Albania, Bosnia, Zambia, Algeria. At right: David Mack, former US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, holds up the ...

“An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis” is on display at the Phillips Collection through Feb 12 (Photo by Lee Stalsworth). A major, must-see exhibition exploring an underappreciated ...

Many in the United States look beyond their borders and see a dangerous world with raging wars, surging violence and deepening instability. But a new report by the Eurasia Group, a leading political ...

Mosaic glass tiles, dated 100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution) Tucked in a corridor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, a small and exquisitely arranged display ...