Foreign Policy

The Trump administration's sudden U-turn on Qatar is all about Iran.

The ousted home secretary was trying to clean up the mess her boss created. Theresa May alone is responsible for the “hostile environment” policy’s heinous abuses.

South Africa’s ruling party has failed to redistribute land to the black majority for over two decades. Can the new president defuse a ticking time bomb?

Israel and the United States are both led by men who are hard to trust.

Germany, France, and the U.K. all tried sucking up to Trump. They ended up helping kill the Iran deal.

Mike Pompeo’s first test could be a plan to remove refugee aid from Foggy Bottom.

Unless the United States changes its priorities, Korean diplomacy is probably doomed.

Once upon a time, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would have been instruments of foreign-policy ambition.

Smoke and mirrors aside, the Israeli prime minister’s presentation was an endorsement of existing nuclear diplomacy with Tehran.

In opening remarks to employees, the new secretary of state appeared eager to show the State Department he is no Rex Tillerson.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is abusing international law enforcement institutions to target its critics.

As Trump has already discovered, pulling the military from the Peninsula isn't easy.

Beijing has big plans for its own Polar Silk Road.

A new summary of the country’s troubles by a special inspector general doesn’t paint an optimistic picture.

A prominent Pakistani doctor suspects he is on the no-fly list. He’s demanding the right to find out why.

Moscow and Riyadh are conspiring to rig global oil markets against the United States.

Without deft diplomacy, confrontations in Syria, protests in Gaza, and tensions over the Iran nuclear deal could plunge the Middle East into chaos.

In a dramatic presentation on Monday, the Israeli prime minister outlined revelations on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program that most of the world had already accepted.

The first step towards peace is lowering your expectations.

There are plenty of lessons to draw from America's diplomatic gambit in Korea — just probably not the ones you think.