Foreign Policy

The showdown with Qatar is forcing all Middle Eastern countries to pick sides — and leaving two of them in the lurch.

After the Singapore summit, it isn't just wrong to say the North Korean leader is irrational — it's dangerous.

Zeid Raad al-Hussein serves as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.

Chrystia Freeland is Canada’s foreign minister and the member of Parliament for University-Rosedale.

Beijing is using the region's ongoing woes to solidify its own geopolitical agenda.

Chrystia Freeland said Trump was putting his thumb on the scales with tariffs.

The secretary of state now has to deal with the fallout of the rushed agreement with North Korea.

The firms profiting from China's rights abuses are often backed by Western investors.

Koreans deserve the credit for peace on the peninsula, not Trump.

The G-7 and Singapore summits have put on display breathtaking strategic incoherence and appalling moral vacuity on the part of the Trump administration.

Mari Stull’s arrival at the State Department’s International Organization Bureau is triggering an exodus of top career staffers.

Matteo Salvini is Italy's new hard-line anti-migrant interior minister. But his bark may end up worse than his bite.

The Obama staffer's memoirs depict an administration that wanted to change history, but never got past managing crises.

In the run-up to the G-7 summit, Trump seemed to forget a key lesson from history.

The Nipah virus is awful. Hysteria makes it worse.

North Koreans wanted the renowned scientist Siegfried Hecker to know they could hide their bomb material and the United States would never find it.

Many remain critical, others have repented, but all are shut out from the Trump State Department.

The United States has a moral responsibility and pragmatic imperative to keep rights violations on the table at the Singapore summit.

Japanese prime ministers usually resign at the first whiff of scandal — but this one is breaking the mold.

Diplomats who welcomed the new secretary of state are now feeling let down.