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The half-century-old embargo on most U.S. exports has turned Cubans into some of the most inventive mechanics in the world, technicians capable of engineering feats long lost to the modern world of electronic ignitions and computerized engine calibration.

You must have heard of the famous “Pottery Barn Rule.” It states that in a retail store you are responsible for any damage you cause to the goods on display. In other words: Once you break it, you own it.

The news about the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel came right after it was announced that the nuclear talks with Iran had been extended to the end of June 2015.

Just weeks after his last visit to Turkey, U.S. President Barack Obama’s special envoy for coalition efforts against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, John Allen, is holding talks with top civilian and military officials in Ankara.

The midterm Congressional Elections in the U.S. on Nov. 4 marked a setback for the Obama Administration, as Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 2006.

Congress members returning to Capitol Hill next week will face a debate over President Barack Obama’s new $5.6 billion plan to broadly expand the U.S. mission in Iraq and send up to 1,500 more American troops to the war-torn nation.

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has declared that it would not object to participating in a coalition that aims at battling jihadist militants in neighboring countries.

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has declared that it would not object to participating in a coalition that aims at battling jihadist militants in neighboring countries.

The militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have murdered a second American reporter, releasing another video Sept. 2 showing a masked militant with a British accent cutting the throat of a US captive.

Diplomacy is the business of subtly transmitting your messages. It is always what lies between the lines that matters, not what appears on the surface and at first glance. This is also how the White House’s official readout of President Barack Obama’s phone conversation with Turkey’s newly elected president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday should be read.