Foreign Policy

Monday’s election is an opportunity for Washington to come down on the side of accountability and constitutional rule.

Trump doesn’t think the country is worth defending. Putin has already tried to destabilize it once—the West can’t let it happen again.

Francisco Franco ran Spain with an iron fist for decades—and created myths about his rule that are only now starting to come undone.

Cambodian dissidents come under cyberattack in run-up to sham election.

Politicians are exploiting a period of relative calm to gamble with the country’s future.

The shift is part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign to crack down on refugees and immigration.

A Houthi attack on two Saudi oil tankers near Yemen could be an Iranian bid to hammer a key energy choke point.

Whatever the U.S. president's intentions, his efforts to rock the foundation of international politics are hopeless.

An attack on one isn't really an attack on all and four other misunderstood facts about the Western defense alliance.

If you want to understand the tensions between policymakers and spooks under Donald Trump, look to the 1970s.

The secretary of state faces criticism, even from those in his own party.

Russia is more important than the United States in averting war between Israel and Syria.

A checkered democratic history, from 1947 to the present day.

Lawmakers preparing a must-pass defense bill stripped out harsh penalties against the Chinese telecommunications firm after the White House intervened.

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.

Trump's Iran policies have left the country with no choice but to turn to Russia and China.

America's allies and adversaries are adapting to Donald Trump in ways that can't easily be reversed.

Beijing sees business as politics, and multinationals need to adjust.

Possible auto tariffs weigh on Trump’s meeting with the European Commission president on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of Uighur have been detained without trial in China's western region of Xinjiang.