Türkiye’s Erdogan Postpones Tentative White House Visit, Sources Say

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan postponed a White House meeting with President Joe Biden, a source familiar with the situation and a Turkish official said on Friday of a visit that had been ... Read More

US, Japan, and Philippines reached agreement on defense

President of the US Joe Biden, President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida have announced a series of agreements between their countries, concluded ... Read More

Campus protests: Pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread as some schools crack down

Columbia protestors agree to dismantle some tents. Gaza war protest encampments spread across U.S. universities. Columbia says 'alternate options' would be considered to clear the encampment. Read More

Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over

Police are removing anti-Israel protesters from Yale’s campus early Monday after a week of demonstrations calling for the university to divest from military weapon manufacturers. Students at Columbia ... Read More

Biden praises Kishida’s leadership and Japan’s growing international clout

Kishida’s official visit, which concluded with a glitzy state dinner at the White House on Wednesday evening, completes the Democratic administration’s feting of the leaders of the Quad ... substance ... Read More

US Says It’s Reviewing New Information about Israeli Unit Accused of Abuses before War in Gaza

The US has determined that an Israeli military unit committed gross human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza began, but it will hold off on any decision about ... Read More

Muslim leaders are 'out of words' as they tire of the White House outreach on the war in Gaza

As publisher of the Arab American News ... that the White House has nurtured at a time of anger at the Democratic president over his support for Israel. Such informal contacts have become more ... Read More

Japanese Prime Minister addresses Congress amid skepticism about US role abroad

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed U.S. lawmakers at the Capitol on Thursday, underscoring the importance of keeping a strong partnership between the two countries at a time of tension in ... Read More

Japan’s leader warns Congress of Asia-Pacific tensions

Kishida is in Washington this week visiting President Joe Biden as the White House completes hosting each leader of the Quad — an informal partnership ... said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in ... Read More

A Dangerous Game Is Underway in Asia

The new alliance structure Washington is pursuing in Asia won’t guarantee peace and stability — and may raise the risk of stumbling into a conflict. Read More

Japan’s Kishida to address Congress as its military role expands

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s address to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, along with the White House’s red-carpet welcome ... on Indo-Pacific countries. Other leaders of the ... Read More

Trilateral statement a firm commitment to troublemaking in the Asia-Pacific region

Tellingly, the trilateral statement tries to pin the blame on China for "dangerous and destabilizing conduct" at Huangyan Island. And it calls on China to abide by what the latter has repeatedly ... Read More