Foreign Policy

Russia isn’t cracking heads ahead of this weekend’s parliamentary vote—just boring people away from the polls.

The reality of a defiant nuclear North Korea has led Seoul to consider its own options.

Stefano Pontecorvo spent his childhood in Kabul. Sixty years later, he coordinated the evacuation of 124,000 people before saying goodbye to the city himself.

The government seeks to avoid Evergrande Group becoming Beijing’s Lehman Brothers.

Beijing has used the “war on terror” to target its own minorities like Uyghurs.

A nationally televised debate mostly highlighted the weaknesses of the leading contenders to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A supposedly Orwellian system is fragmented, localized, and mostly targeted at businesses.

Closing Guantánamo Bay isn’t enough.

America’s man in Afghanistan reflects on Trump’s ill-fated peace deal, the pullout, and how everything went wrong.

Nor would they desire to.

Why Turkey’s ruling party views environmentalism as a threat.

Many former officials expect U.S. intelligence to dry up.

Days after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the new regime is consolidating power.

New restrictions on how much time minors can spend gaming reflect broader ideological concerns.

Opaque practices make it difficult to trace human rights abuses.

After 20 years of building up Afghanistan, can the United States really cut the country off now?

But Volodymyr Zelensky is irked with the Biden administration over its acquiescence in Russia’s big pipeline.

Americans are still using the lens of a half century-old conflict.

The United States can no longer claim to be the leader of the free world if it abandons strategic allies and vulnerable civilians.

The Egyptian government has deliberately let a former presidential candidate languish behind bars without proper medical care.