Foreign Policy

They’re soldiers. And we should start showing them the respect they deserve.

The British called them the "Bladensburg Races,” the shattering of seven thousand American militiamen by three thousand British regulars and marines that opened the door to the burning of Washington. James Madison, President of the United States, the Secretary of War and the Secretary of State were among the fleeing refugees that day in 1814. It was not America’s finest hour.

Army Brig. Gen. Sean Mulholland, who had commanded Special Operations in Central and South America (and where I think they had been very busy in counter-drug and counter-terror ops) was removed from his post in 2014, reports the Washington Post‘s Craig Whitlock, who had to pry the information out of the Army.

Our war dog of the week is an Army pup, seen here in maneuvers before World War II.

Afghanistan Afghan Taliban fighting ISIS for territory, recruits Militants who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State or ISIS in Afghanistan are becoming more than a nuisance to the country’s larger militant group, the Afghan Taliban, by claiming territory and attacking Taliban members, the New York Times reported on Thursday (NYT). Throughout the month, ISIS ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson Game on. A group of Chinese hackers — possibly sponsored by Beijing — has allegedly breached U.S. government computer systems and gained access to the personal information of at least four million current and former government workers. The massive data breach, which looks to be the biggest cyber intrusion ...

The leaders of several prominent Sunni tribes in Iraq announced their support for the Islamic State on Wednesday in Fallujah. Their statement condemned the Iraqi government and claimed that the only way to create peace in Anbar province is through support for the Islamic State. The tribes participating in the announcement include the influential al-Jumaili ...

The two-year fight to overhaul the National Security Agency ended this week with President Barack Obama’s signing of the USA Freedom Act. But it will take months of tough negotiations with telecom companies for the White House to actually implement the required reforms, and privacy groups are still smarting over what they consider watered-down changes ...

Achieving the decisive votes to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives will require targeting two groups — Republicans concerned with granting President Barack Obama more authority and Democrats fearful of union retribution. Figuring out how to build a message that can appeal to these two seemingly incongruous populations is essential ...

For the second time in three months, Greece delayed a loan payment to the International Monetary Fund. Now, Athens is inching closer to being kicked out of the eurozone.

Ethnic hatreds, murky disappearances, and the purging of enemies are all on the rise in Robert Mugabe's dictatorship.

Allegations of corruption at the highest levels of FIFA has put the spotlight on the 2022 World Cup host's human rights record.

The human costs of the Saudi Arabian-led bombing campaign in Yemen are immense.

America’s point man on the Islamic State maps a way forward after the fall of Ramadi.

A U.S.-led probe into FIFA could cement many of the bad behaviors allowed by Sepp Blatter.

It certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed that 13 of the 14 individuals named last week in the FIFA bribery and kickback scandal represent Latin America and Caribbean soccer organizations. While no one country or region has a monopoly on corruption, it is likewise true that weak rule of law and endemic corruption issues have unfortunately been the ...

This year seems to be a year for taking stock of women's rights globally, but what does that mean for the state of women in Afghanistan?

Why it’s going to take more than a broken leg to keep the secretary of state – or the Iran deal – from moving forward.

U.S. Defense Department officials said on Wednesday that a total of 51 laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries have received potentially dangerous samples of anthrax from a U.S. Army lab in Dugway, Utah.

Riyadh is pushing to keep the oil taps open at Friday’s OPEC meeting. That’s a direct challenge to enemies in Tehran and Moscow, not U.S. wildcatters.