Foreign Policy

By Elias Groll, Dan De Luce, Sharon Weinberger, and Robbie Gramer Fat fingers. Officials in Hawaii are beginning to sort through just how the state’s emergency alert system incorrectly told residents on Saturday that a ballistic missile was speeding toward the island. The results aren’t pretty: Early reports indicate that the wrong button was pushed ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, solutions to many of the world’s toughest problems already exist—you just need to know where to look for them.

Exporting British Columbia’s abundant energy resources should have been a slam dunk. How did a multibillion-dollar dream go up in smoke?

Serving as a U.S. diplomat in Zimbabwe is tough. Life for African-American diplomats there is even harder.

The Trump administration’s Middle East strategy revolves around a threat that doesn’t exist.

Kurdish officials once dreamed of forging their own state out of the ashes of the war against the Islamic State. Now they are fighting for their very survival.

Despite its defeat on the battlefield, the Islamic State is using Iraq’s black market to stockpile millions of dollars to fuel its coming insurgency.

Bollywood’s dark hit comedy features a bureaucrat lost in India’s political jungles.

U.S. diplomats worry the president’s comments will set back relations. Others wonder why it took the “shithole” comment to get Washington to finally notice Africa.

Why are young Iranians demanding the return of the Pahlavi dynasty? Media-savvy exiles in Europe.

The director of the agency responsible for analyzing satellite imagery says he wants to modernize the work. Some employees fear they’re being replaced by artificial intelligence.

The people, not the government, will pay the price.

Su gente, no su gobierno, pagará el precio.

Interconnective tissue binds Russia, Arab state-owned investment funds, and Middle Eastern countries undergoing rapid transformations.

Talks are stalled over how to deal with the impact of a $5 billion dam that could threaten Egypt’s lifeblood.

Tepid reforms and halfhearted concessions won't save the country's authoritarian government from its existential crisis.

The GOP's absence from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's report on Russian interference is sad and abnormal.

Edward Lansdale’s most successful covert operations may have been crafting his own reputation.

The militant group is on the run, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be back.

There’s no reason to start a devastating war when nonmilitary options are working.