His differences with US President Donald Trump may have helped win Moon Jae-in the presidency of South Korea. Now he and Trump need to focus on what unites them. During the campaign, Moon took issue with the U.S. administration’s approach to North Korea. In the past, he’s called for engaging economically with the North and restarting joint development projects, rather …

US President Donald Trump has approved to directly arm the Syrian Kurdish forces in the fight to wrest back Raqqa, the self-declared capital of IS group. But Turkey, a US ally and NATO member, has criticized US plan as unacceptable and a threat to Turkey. Ankara says Syrian Kurds are linked to PKK militants in the country and supporting them …

Bloomberg State-led Russian hackers remain a “major threat” to the U.S. government and will keep up their attacks after seeking to influence the 2016 presidential vote, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in an annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment.” Coats, in a statement prepared for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, stood by past intelligence community assertions that only …