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In a desperate move to head off the armed conflict, representatives of the two Muslim nations will meet to discuss freedom-of-navigation issues in the Abdullah waterway between the two countries. The countries’ shared land border was demarcated by the United Nations in 1993 after Iraq’s invasion of the oil-producing nation, but it did not cover the length of their maritime …

In the wake of a major summit meeting between the United States, Japan, and South Korea, which strengthened ties between these nations, China is trying to cut in on the dance floor. Beijing viewed that meeting in Camp David as a means of raising an attempt by the U.S. to increase the pressure against China at a time of intensifying …

A tentative, bilateral agreement between the United States and Kenya would send troops from the East African nation to Haiti and additional American military support to Kenya. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Kenya’s Defense Minister Aden Duale signed the accord at a meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The agreement guides the countries’ defense relations for the next five …

The federal government agreed to reimburse Guam for most of the $56 million it spent cleaning up a World War II/Vietnam War-era toxic waste dump. The settlement represents the U.S. government’s “fair share of remediation costs” for Ordot Dump, a 23-acre landfill opened prior to World War II and operated by the military for decades before being passed to the …

For the first time ever, a rail line will connect longtime frenemies Iraq and Iran. Conductors might yell “All aboard!” by the end of 2024. Builders will lay a little over eighteen miles of track between Iraq’s southern city of Basra and the Iranian border town of Shalamja, linking nations with ties that have deepened since the 2003 U.S. invasion …