Foreign Policy

A nationally televised debate mostly highlighted the weaknesses of the leading contenders to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A supposedly Orwellian system is fragmented, localized, and mostly targeted at businesses.

Closing Guantánamo Bay isn’t enough.

America’s man in Afghanistan reflects on Trump’s ill-fated peace deal, the pullout, and how everything went wrong.

Nor would they desire to.

Why Turkey’s ruling party views environmentalism as a threat.

Many former officials expect U.S. intelligence to dry up.

Days after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the new regime is consolidating power.

New restrictions on how much time minors can spend gaming reflect broader ideological concerns.

Opaque practices make it difficult to trace human rights abuses.

After 20 years of building up Afghanistan, can the United States really cut the country off now?

But Volodymyr Zelensky is irked with the Biden administration over its acquiescence in Russia’s big pipeline.

Americans are still using the lens of a half century-old conflict.

The United States can no longer claim to be the leader of the free world if it abandons strategic allies and vulnerable civilians.

The Egyptian government has deliberately let a former presidential candidate languish behind bars without proper medical care.

When it comes to policies Washington cares about, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his predecessor are practically the same.

As the two leaders meet in Washington, Ukraine is on edge.

Young people across the continent have been hit hard by the pandemic, lockdowns, and economic stagnation—but their protests have largely been ignored by elderly elites.

There’s little expectation the Taliban will make it easy to leave.

The failure of the Afghan army is a reminder that Pentagon-led security cooperation programs are more expensive and less effective than those led by spies.