Foreign Policy

Relief worker Pavlos Kolovos watched as one of the world’s worst refugee crises unfolded in real time.

The decision would test already fraught relations with Germany, other allies.

Shady tactics failed to pay off in a divisive abortion referendum.

Russia and Israel are ramping up pressure on Iran to withdraw. But Tehran is intent on recouping its investment of blood and treasure.

What a sting operation reveals about press freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Asia is ready for India to step up as the United States withdraws.

Angering Europe, Canada, and Mexico makes it harder to build a common front against Beijing’s trade abuses.

Officials say Kim Yong Chol’s meeting in New York marks the highest-level visit to the United States by a North Korean in 18 years, aimed at salvaging the summit.

The Italian president's decision to reject an elected government makes neither economic nor political sense.

Some diplomats fear the United States might now exit the council.

By faking a journalist’s death and blaming it on Russia, Ukraine is fighting fire with fire — and setting its own house ablaze.

Washington's Libya model for nuclear negotiations is an illustration of why nuclear weapons are necessary.

From Europe to Iran to North Korea, the world doesn't make sense anymore — unless you put all your illusions aside.

Efforts to end modern slavery have bipartisan support — but the State Department is still missing an ambassador-at-large to monitor and combat trafficking in persons.

A new French law aims to separate truth from fiction, but it will mostly just give the government more control over the media.

The most important motive for the “Great March of Return” has been anger at Gaza's terrible conditions for daily life.

For the U.S. president, like the last German monarch, foreign policy is all about personal ego, not national interests.

The Trump administration appears to be trying to salvage a summit set for June 12.

One mainlander’s story of resistance and risk.

There is only one way for vital Asian oil and gas resources to reach Europe without passing through Russia and Iran: through the narrow “Ganja Gap.”