Foreign Policy

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.

Sure, Sepp Blatter has stepped down -- but will that actually change anything for FIFA?

The answer might surprise you.

A pair of senators is pushing the Pentagon to do more to prevent the Islamic State from using massive improvised explosive devices that have long been a hallmark of Sunni insurgents and, more recently, cleared the extremists’ pathway to seize the Iraqi city of Ramadi last month.

Ending more than a week of intense debate, the Senate voted on Tuesday to limit the federal government’s vast surveillance powers while keeping many powerful snooping programs intact -- a compromise meant to balance civil liberties concerns with the intelligence community’s insistence that it needs the tools to prevent future attacks against the United States.

President Barack Obama doubled down on criticisms of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with an Israeli television station.