Foreign Policy

The Trump administration looked small and inconsequential on the international stage.

An annual security gathering in Munich has become the new hot spot for top intelligence officials meeting in the shadows of a public event.

Mahmoud Abbas challenges American leadership of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at the United Nations.

The downing of an Israeli jet won’t fundamentally alter the Middle East’s strategic balance. 

Which China and Russia on the rise, the United States leaves the field uncontested at its peril.

The secretary of state’s freeze on hiring diplomats’ family members at understaffed embassies is ending, but it left resentment in its wake.

Instead of closing resettlement offices and blocking the entry of people from war-ravaged countries, the United States should maintain its historical commitments.

The United States and Europe need to get serious about limiting Iran’s missiles of all ranges — and the Missile Technology Control Regime should guide them.

Why Russia’s strongman economy can’t reform.

Anthony Ferrante coordinated the U.S. government’s response to Russian election interference. Now he’s helping a news site defend itself from a Russian billionaire’s lawsuit.

The Marshall Plan recognized the limits of U.S. power in Europe. To be successful, so must diplomacy with Moscow today.

Israeli and Iranian forces directly clash for the first time since 1982.

A budget deal ended a government shutdown, but it could gut funding for America’s diplomacy and development programs.

Sex scandals have a long history of taking down politicians — but don't get your hopes up about the current U.S. president.

Iran hawk Bob Menendez’s reinstatement as top Democrat on Senate Foreign Relations Committee could alter politics around the nuclear deal.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador's ascension seems like an increasingly good bet.

There’s a sudden outbreak of the nasty, fast-spreading norovirus — right near South Korea’s Olympic Village

Opponents of the nuclear agreement have distorted the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The president risks weakening one of America's most formidable policy tools.

How WHO and other international agencies aid Assad’s war against Syria’s civilians.