As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become the stage for a reckoning long denied in the Philippines.

The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this ...

US President Donald Trump speaks during the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2026. Photo by Saul Loeb/ President Donald Trump is escalating his ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's predecessor said the country's war on cartels helped trigger more violence. It now ...

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands — Eyes at the public gallery of the International Criminal Court (ICC) immediately turned to ...

President Trump on Saturday announced a new coalition to counter drug trafficking and cartels during the inaugural “Shield of ...

The U.S. and its allies have spilled blood and treasure to kill drug lords and defeat cartels, but the drugs keep coming and the new groups are more violent than ever.

The United States has poured a veritable war chest into combating the sale and abuse of drugs over the past several decades. But in 2026, more than half a century after President Richard Nixon first ...

Meth production and opium poppy cultivation are growing and expanding in Myanmar, according to the UN, with many armed groups using the profits to buy weapons.New data on opium and methamphetamine ...

Has the once ballyhooed U.S. “war on drugs” been put on the policy backburner? Many experts think it has, and also that this might be a good thing. As the Bush administration has turned its attention ...