Foreign Policy

Washington ignored Islamabad funding and supplying the Taliban. Now Afghans are paying the price.

Tightly bound kinship networks aren’t vestiges of the past. They’re a modern—and effective—form of political organization.

The president is taking flak from all sides, but the timing of the Taliban takeover could minimize the political damage.

Tunisia’s controversial president is seeking to preserve the legacy of the Arab Spring by stamping out corruption and promoting decentralized democracy.

Thousands await evacuation from Afghanistan as Biden faces criticism for U.S. withdrawal.

In a new chapter for Afghanistan, women are particularly vulnerable.

The United States evacuates its embassy while diplomats and aid officials brace for a new humanitarian catastrophe.

Authoritarians around the world are perfecting the art of seeming more powerful than they are.

Europe’s poster child for pandemic dysfunction can now teach other countries how to beat the disease.

The Wakhan Corridor is a fiercely contested imperial hangover.

Ahmed Rabbani’s journey through the U.S. dark prison system to Guantánamo.

Despair elides the progress made over the last two decades.

More desperate migrants will head West in coming years—and the West’s migration policies must change in response.

Racism and hubris are marring Beijing’s image globally.

What the 27 mostly unpublished missives tell us about the future of U.S.-North Korean diplomacy.

But others question the “market-based” approach of Biden’s chief climate envoy.

Britain’s decision to compensate slaveholders was unjust, unpalatable—and effective.

This week in FP’s international news quiz: climate change red flags, a looming Taliban takeover, and one risky helicopter landing.

Put aside all your idealistic fantasies about the world’s biggest crisis, and here’s what’s left.

Malaysian mothers can’t automatically pass on their nationality to foreign-born children. The pandemic has worsened the law’s ill effects.