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The United States appears set to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan in the latest attempt to get control of the war U.S. generals say is in stalemate. But the Pentagon has not developed any new strategy for how to use those forces.

An American soldier was killed fighting ISIS over the weekend in Afghanistan. NPR takes a look at how serious the ISIS threat is there and how it fits into the wider conflict between American forces, their Afghan allies and anti-government insurgents and terrorists.

"Those responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement Wednesday. Targeted sanctions against Myanmar are a possibility.

The heads of America's top intelligence agencies — including the CIA, FBI and NSA — gave their latest update on the nature of threats facing the U.S. on Tuesday, from ISIS to Russia to China and others. NPR has the latest on what America's spymasters call the biggest dangers of the moment.

Central American communities that have grown used to the remittances sent back from migrants living in the United States often experience a painful readjustment when the migrants are sent home.

One day after he was named in the whistleblower's report, Kurt Volker, the U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, has resigned. Politico's Nahal Toosi joins NPR's Audie Cornish to discuss Volker.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is imposing new limits on who can get asylum in the U.S. In a closely watched case, he said that most migrants fleeing domestic violence or gang violence won't qualify.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations about the Trump administration's Afghan policy now that there isn't a permanent national security adviser.

Factories have added 467,000 jobs in the last 12 months, as production jumped to its highest level since 2008. But manufacturing remains a much smaller slice of the U.S. economy than it used to be.

The U.S. government issues its highest terrorism alert ever for commercial flights from Britain to the United States early Thursday after a terror plot was disrupted in London, with a specific concern for tourist-filled flights to major U.S. cities.