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 Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly joined fellow British Overseas Territories in celebrating Overseas Territories Day on 2 June 2025, highlighting the strength, diversity, and common values ...

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.

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.

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 ...

American Democracy Versus Chinese Governance: The ... the IOR underscored the complex interplay between France’s global strategic ambitions and the local realities of its overseas territories.

They are a British Overseas Territory with fewer than 50 residents, who manage their local affairs while remaining connected to the UK. American Samoa This U.S. territory in the South Pacific has ...

The Foley Foundation, set up in memory of the journalist James Foley who was brutally murdered by ISIS in 2014, advocates for the return of Americans being held overseas. Its most recent annual ...