The Apprentice

Donald Trump's decision to declare victory in Syria and pull US troops out of the country is shocking on many levels. Perhaps the greatest shock is that it undermines one of the few, hitherto unshakeable, principles of how the world works: there are no friendships in diplomacy, only national interests.

United States President Donald Trump did it again. His unpredictability has just become a norm when shaping U.S. foreign policy. Although he denies it was not a surprise move, Trump's sudden decision for a complete pullout of all U.S.

All of the U.S.'s roughly 2,000 troops in Syria will be leaving, President Donald Trump said Dec. 19 in a major policy departure for Washington.

In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over funding for his promised border wall and offered a grim preview of life in Washington the next two years under divided government.

U.S. President Donald Trump has backed plans to request $750 billion from Congress for defense spending next year, a U.S. official said on Sunday, signaling a Pentagon spending hike at a time of potential belt-tightening elsewhere in the government.

Whatever the current state of the US-China trade war, Asia's geopolitics are fast becoming more contentious.

Donald Trump met Tuesday with executives of Germany's three top auto manufacturers, amid efforts by Washington and Brussels to resolve the US president's complaints about imbalanced trade in the sector, reports AFP. 

After the talks, the executives sounded optimistic about averting Trump's threat to impose tariffs on auto imports.

President Donald Trump said Monday he doesn't believe his own government's report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked, reports AFP. 

"I don't believe it," Trump said at the White House, adding that the United States would not take measures to cut emissions if the same was not done in other countries.

The chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, has told President Donald Trump that there are no Obama judges or Trump judges and instead what he calls "an extraordinary group of dedicated judges."

U.S President Donald Trump has said extraditing a Turkish-born Muslim cleric blamed by Turkey for engineering a 2016 military coup attempt is "not under consideration."