Foreign Policy

A new book looks at why the U.S. military keeps trapping itself in endless conflicts.

Almost four decades after the first U.S.-Pakistani mission in Afghanistan, Islamabad risks getting caught in the crosshairs of great-power politics again. Only deft diplomacy will save it.

The decline in U.S. soft power didn’t start with Trump, but he accelerated it this week with his racist tweets.

It won’t bring the regime in from the cold, but it will save lives.

Plus: Hong Kong’s justice minister in China, Congo’s Ebola crisis, and the other stories we’re following today.

The presidential contender is leading the charge against the Defense Department’s revolving door but has a history of pushing the interests of firms in her home state.

A coalition between Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists and Albert Rivera’s Ciudadanos could prevent a fourth election in as many years—but voters are unlikely to buy it.

Cambodia’s strongman has found an unlikely American voice.

Tokyo’s temper tantrum over history is mostly hurting itself.

A transcript of the nominee’s remarks at the European Parliament plenary session.

Venezuela’s would-be president, Juan Guaidó, says he’s confident ahead of a new round of talks with the Maduro government.

How Hong Kong is turning into the West Berlin of the quasi-cold war between the West and China.

A few years after Bogotá struck a deal with the FARC, challenges to the agreement risk undermining it.

Plus: China's economy slows, Erdogan readies for S-400 deployment, and the other stories we’re following today.

Opposing the compromise candidate for EU commission president will further empower populists and Euroskeptics.

It isn’t just Trump who has put the country’s small businesses under pressure. Díaz-Canel is after them, too.

Officially, Japan has “national security” concerns about technology exports to South Korea. Unofficially, World War II still casts an ugly shadow.

Republicans and Democrats have every reason to compromise and ratify the agreement.

The decline and fall of an alliance.

Wood smuggling is big business for the terrorist group.