Foreign Policy

The Biden administration is hoping to rotate fighters and bombers to the land Down Under.

A key Biden lever over the Taliban has been removed.

The agreement will help New Delhi with its quest for a stable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.

Washington’s focus on stability over human rights is alienating Africa’s youth.

To retain control in this weekend’s Duma elections, the Kremlin has reached very deep into its bag of tricks.

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.