Foreign Policy

With the Philippine president ditching Washington for Beijing, the contest to control the South China Sea just got a lot more complicated.

The only way to solve Yemen's war, and beat back its al-Qaeda franchise, is to dissolve the country entirely.

Contractor Harold Martin is accused of lifting as many as 500 million pages of classified and top-secret material from Ft. Meade, and will be charged under the Espionage Act.

Pentagon officials insist that American forces remain behind the front lines near Mosul, but Thursday’s death calls that into question.

And anyway, we’ve survived far more serious threats than this loathsome joker in the past.

Mexican clowns complain they are being mistreated because impostors are using their costumes for crime.

Russian puppets, 'bad hombres,' and Trump only accepting the election results if he wins: 2016's last debate and more.

The Iraqi Army’s push to retake the northern city could trigger a vast humanitarian crisis and fuel the country’s deep sectarian divide.

Not all of them think a pardon is enough.

But if they hope to defeat the Islamic State, they’re going to have to learn to work with some new allies.

A draft statement, obtained by Foreign Policy, for the first time explicitly calls out Moscow for its role in the devastating Syrian bombing campaign.

When it comes to America’s engagement with the outside world — from trade to alliances — there’s still broad agreement across parties.

The governor of Ukraine’s bucolic Odessa region wanted to take on the corrupt system. Now he’s realized he has to work with it.

The long career of Thailand’s king offers a study in the virtues of constitutional monarchy — and in the immense challenges of royal rule.

With the Obama administration’s negotiating hands tied, supporters appeal to the compassionate side of the Iranian regime.

The country's own flag has become an anti-government symbol of protest.

But the U.S. embargo on Cuba still remains in place.

President Buhari's wife took to the media to express her disappointment in her husband.

The Obama administration wants to censure Syria with international support it is rallying through the global watchdog on chemical weapons.

I’m a West Point graduate and Iraq war veteran who has been surrounded by men who act and speak a lot like Donald Trump.