Foreign Policy

Poor countries have borne the brunt of the refugee crisis. Tanzania’s refusal to bear the cost of a new U.N. program is a warning to the West.

The Eastern Mediterranean energy patch is hot — unfortunately, in more ways than one.

Despite White House promises and U.S. legal protections for religious minorities, Washington rejects appeal for asylum from more than 100 Iranian Christians.

The imagery agency wants its own “CIA World Factbook.”

There’s a very familiar method to the administration’s apparent regional madness.

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.