Foreign Policy

The NSA has lost its authority to collect data on U.S. citizens. For now.

The attempted hack was similar to the Stuxnet virus that infected Iranian centrifuges.

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In the literal definition of a strange bedfellows alliance, a top Tea Party group and the American Civil Liberties Union are pressing lawmakers to allow the controversial provisions of the Patriot Act that authorize the National Security Agency's broad surveillance activities to expire.

Beijing continues to push the envelope, and Washington seems stymied. What's a better way forward?

My friend, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, spent his career trying to overcome the mutual distrust between the United States and Iran. It’s time for Tehran to free him from his jail cell in Evin Prison, and begin the hard work of engaging with the West.

When Bangladesh’s politicians exploit extremist Islam, liberal bloggers pay with their lives.

TV news, think-tank pundits, and politicians all want you to see threats around every corner. Don't fall for it.

Akinwumi Adesina won Thursday's election for the presidency of the African Development Bank. Now he's ready to improve infrastructure, create jobs, and encourage green growth on the continent.

A U.S. bribery probe can't bring down the most powerful man in international sports.

Did you know that private contractors in Afghanistan outnumber U.S. troops three to one?

The Embassy of Pakistan's press attaché responds to Michael Kugelman's piece on the BCCI scandal.

U.N.: A military defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq could scatter extremists around the globe.

The jihadists are on the march in Iraq -- and that's not going to change unless Baghdad gets serious about building a Sunni force to win this war.

Spanish voters are ready to boot the corrupt establishment parties from office. It’s about time.

The White House takes an important symbolic step by removing Cuba from the official state sponsor of terror list.

As Washington debates “fast track” trade negotiating authority, politicians are out of sync with a turn in public sentiment.

The Islamic State's cyber chief calls for lone-wolf attack on Arizona man planning a Mohammed cartoon contest.

A hit TV series has found audiences among Israelis and Palestinians alike with its brutal honesty about the ugliness of war and the complexity of human life.

The veteran former CIA operative recalls the good old days after 9/11: “When I was standing in security lines at airports soon after 9/11, nobody was complaining. Now when I stand in security lines, people are complaining.”