It also excludes the places that are still territories of the United States—Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

More than 40 U.S. citizens are being held hostage, wrongly detained, or otherwise unable to leave a foreign country.

The American origin story of a country born in revolution only applies to a small piece of the country. ... The U.S. expanded ...

At this point in history, the United States is the world’s only superpower. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the number of troops the U.S. has deployed to overseas bases in nearly 30 countries.

The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), from the financial powerhouse of the Cayman Islands to the untamed beauty of South Georgia, are often recognised but not fully understood. Are these ...

If we want to better understand Trump’s neo-imperial foreign policy, we’d be best to place it in the context of the history of American overseas imperialism.

Falklands Government London Office Representative, Richard Hyslop also underlined the significance and merits of UK Overseas Territories Day in a brief speech. “I’m here at Westminster because ...

So will the British Indian Ocean Territory—a U.K. overseas territory that (thanks to a mid-century ethnic cleansing) is depopulated but for military personnel and contractors at the island's ...

French overseas territories have become countries in their own right – at least in the list of naughty nations to tax published by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, April 2. French ...

As US President Donald Trump's widest-ranging tariffs to date took effect Saturday, the White House said it had lowered planned levies on two French overseas territories. Trump's move has already ...

How precisely Donald Trump could make good on his threat to annex Canada can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent in American history.