Foreign Policy

From climate change to the Islamic State, from Russia to China, we asked scholars who they want tackling America's biggest problems.

Bowe Bergdahl thought the Army was failing him and other soldiers, but one incident pushed him over the edge

The Chabahar port agreement is set to be finalized in the upcoming trilateral meeting in Delhi. With all players slated to benefit, Chabahar looks like a win-win for all parties.

Hitler’s Romanian ally led an utterly barbaric regime — that while often protecting Jews inside Romania's borders, murdered them indiscriminately just outside those borders.

A New Zealand minister had a dildo thrown at his face. Good thing he thought it was funny.

What is the difference between remembering war and writing histories about it?

So it turns out that Sidney Blumenthal wrote the following to Secretary of State Clinton about an item in this blog.

This is during World War I.

Event Notice: United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists (DC Launch), Tuesday, February 9 (New America) Pakistan Pakistan and Afghanistan intelligence chiefs meet in Islamabad On Thursday, Masoud Andarabi, the head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), met with Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar, the Director General of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), in Islamabad (VOA). ...

The Assad regime’s offensive in Aleppo, backed by heavy bombing by Russian planes, is driving thousands of people to flee the city. The new surge in displaced persons has drawn concern from Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. “Now, 10,000 new refugees are waiting in front of the door of (the Turkish city of) Kilis because ...

By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley More, more, more. Placing American commandos in Afghan army units and allowing forward air controllers to move closer to the front lines to call in airstrikes are a few of the ways that Gen. John Campbell, head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, thinks his troops might be ...

The personal relationship between John Kerry and Javad Zarif paved the way for a high-profile prisoner swap. But its biggest test is still to come.

I don’t understand the disproportionate focus on a half day in Benghazi vs. more than a decade in Iraq. When people say they just the facts, I think: We still don’t know when the decision was made to invade Iraq, or who was involved. We still don’t know why the intelligence was so warped. We ...

  By David Crist Best Defense guest columnist The importance of last week’s event in the Persian Gulf goes beyond current political sound bites. It speaks to the complex relationship between the two nations where engagement and confrontation co-exist. It shows the importance for the United States of having diplomatic relations with a still hostile ...

25 years after Desert Storm, America still hasn’t learned why it’s so difficult to win wars overseas.

Shawn M. Campbell, 41, College Station, Texas. Brian T. Kennedy, 31, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kevin T. Roche, 30, St. Louis, Missouri. Steven R. Torbert, 29, Florence, Alabama. Dillon J. Semolina, 24,Chaska, Minnesota. Adam C. Schoeller, 25, Gardners, Pennsylvania. Jeffrey A. Sempler, 22, Woodruff, South Carolina. William J. Turner, 25, Florala, Alabama. Matthew R. Drown, 23, Spring, ...

A head-spinning visit to Dubai’s massive Chinese mega-mall.

Refugees and cool kids are living side-by-side -- but not together -- in one of Germany’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.

The United Nations and individual nations lifted their nuclear-related sanctions on Iran this weekend after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had met its obligations under the agreement reached with the P5+1 in July 2015. Under the terms of the deal, Iran has shipped much of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia, ...

A new wrinkle added to a complicated few days of diplomacy