Foreign Policy

Shady sports agents have taken a page from human traffickers. They’re luring young men to Europe with promises of fame and exploiting them instead.

With President Trump’s strikes on Assad’s regime, the Syrian civil war is at the forefront of the global political stage. But what happens when the strikes are over?

The incoherence of Washington's Syria policy is a symptom of its failure to define a new role in the world.

It wouldn’t be the first time Erdogan took domestic politics to the international arena.

The risks of a summit remain high. But diplomacy works.

The United Nations needs to accept that it's possible to fight and broker peace agreements at the same time.

Tehran and Moscow are becoming the arbiters of the Middle East — and Israel’s relationship with both is growing increasingly tense.

The behind-the-scenes effort to rally enough senators to confirm Pompeo just got tougher.

The EU’s defense forces are struggling to recruit, and immigrants are often eager to serve.

The Trump Administration’s lack of engagement has made the terrorist threat worse.

Leftists want to celebrate revolutionary idealism; conservatives, the triumph of traditional authority. And Emmanuel Macron is trying to split the difference.

It’s a strategy to tighten ideological control. And it’s happening around the world.

Populists in both countries are deepening a rare military crisis between NATO allies.

The real problem with the Mexican presidential frontrunner isn’t his populism. It’s his old-fashioned ideas.

Administration officials defended their position, but lawmakers weren’t happy with their answers.

America finally has a president who grasps the basic logic of offshore balancing in the Middle East.

The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy.

A former senior Russian intelligence official has created an American tech firm that pays people to go places and film things.

Evidence of chemical weapons used to require a chain of custody. Now, open-source intelligence is often enough.

Online protest has scored a solid win for LGBT rights — for now.