Foreign Policy

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.

Ronen Bergman discusses his new book, Rise and Kill First.

Polish leaders thought peddling historical revisionism at home had no consequences; now, it could threaten two crucial alliances.

Tokyo is ramping up international partnerships and investments to offer an alternative to Beijing’s signature foreign-policy project.

More than 20 million North Koreans have their human dignity trampled upon daily. The United States should do more for them.

The president has wooed Saudi Arabia and Israel with promises to roll back Iranian influence — but he has so far failed to match those words with action.