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Equatorial Guinea’s dictator freed two South African oil workers that his regime had imprisoned for years in apparent retaliation for an unrelated legal dispute involving the ruling family’s ...

Deploying the military into American neighborhoods to squash dissent is no different than what truly authoritarian countries do.

A large-scale Iranian refugee crisis could send millions eastward through Afghanistan and into Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, in particular.

That has been Israel’s policy throughout the region, and even presidents who did not share Trump’s proclivity for dictators, such as Barack Obama, have acquiesced to Israel’s preferences.

Trump has threatened the sovereignty of allies and publicly berated their leaders, all while lavishing praise on the dictators and thugs who threaten them. The administration’s radical and peremptory ...

Days before Trump ordered U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s supreme leader warned that American military intervention would result in “irreparable damage.” For more on how ...

In 1979, the West turned a blind eye to Zia's nuclear weapons programme because of the dictator's strategic utility. Pakistan obtained nuclear weapons in the mid-1980s when it was a Western ally.