Foreign Policy

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sold his country as an investment destination with the IMF’s help—but the living standards of ordinary Egyptians are plummeting as elites line their pockets.

Here’s how they can get out of it.

Ten things to read as relations sour.

Euroskepticism was once the purview of policy wonks. The Leave campaign changed all that, and in doing so may have undermined Britain’s Conservative Party for a generation.

Turkish pilots training in the United States must leave by July 31, as Ankara refuses to ditch a Russian missile system.

Plus: Hong Kong prepares for protest over mainland extradition, Ethiopia tries to mediate in Sudan, and the other stories we're following today.

The trade war has been good for Hanoi—but the boom has its limits.

Europe’s wave of burqa bans comes crashing down in the Americas.

The United States should be working to help negotiate peace rather than fanning the flames of another failed war. 

The battle for control over critical infrastructure shows who might win the civil war.

Under threat from Russia, national identity in Ukraine has overpowered religious and ethnic differences.

The never-ending conversation about leaving the EU has stalled all other progress on economic policy.

In the new age of lies, law, not tech, is the answer.

Washington’s extraordinary unilateralism is cracking the foundation of its global financial power.

Both Armenians and Jews have been the victims of premeditated mass murder. The Israeli government must put justice before political expediency and call the crime by its name.

Sunday’s attack in Sri Lanka is just the latest evidence of the group’s persistent influence.

Returning Islamic State fighters are spreading “a really viral ideology” and looking for vulnerable countries to target, says terrorism expert Anne Speckhard.

There were many chances to stop the Easter Sunday attacks. The government missed them all.

The country’s snap election on April 28, its third in five years, may just be the prelude to another down the line.

In an internal document, Trump officials threatened to reject an anti-rape measure over language on sexual and reproductive health.