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Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump has alternated between making threats and suggesting negotiations with Iran. His proposal...
Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic The United States’ shocking turn against Ukraine has finally brought Europe’s...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Myanmar’s deadly earthquake, Israel’s strikes on Beirut, and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete...
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Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump’s yearslong obsession with acquiring Greenland sparked fresh and intense backlash this...
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Have feedback? Email [email protected] to let me know your thoughts. 1. Why did Germany’s Foreign Office temporarily close its embassy in South...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Japan and...
U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a U.S. attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on...
Ongoing reports and analysis Only a decade ago, U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments on Canada would have read as a deliberate parody of...
Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic As the world observed Russia preparing to invade Ukraine in early 2022, the most...
In the 1980s, when I was in the sixth grade, my family moved from Brownsville, Texas, to a small town in central Kansas. My father had enrolled in...
Near the start of Netflix’s Adolescence, a terrified child sits up in bed after his arrest at gunpoint by a police team. He has wet himself in...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the White House’s latest trade measure, European commitments to Kyiv, and a potential turning...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It has been a whirlwind of a week thanks to Signalgate—the group chat heard around the world....
MORE ON THIS TOPIC The Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 4 intended to deliver a formal response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for...
The “forgotten” war in Tigray, Ethiopia, between 2020 and 2022 claimed the lives of more than 200,000 soldiers and up to 400,000 civilians....
The second Trump administration has spent much of its early months focused on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This makes good sense, given...
In the past six weeks, the Israeli military has launched at least 70 ground incursions into southwestern Syria and conducted at least 31 sets of...
Ongoing reports and analysis When U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to single out a case of supposedly wasteful federal government spending, he...
Ongoing reports and analysis The United Kingdom, as it was in the years after Brexit, is caught between the lure of the United States and the...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the major national security breach consuming Washington, large anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, and...
Ongoing reports and analysis Heads are still spinning in Washington in the wake of journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s bombshell report in the Atlantic...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The Taliban release a U.S. citizen from captivity as U.S. officials visit...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s hectic return to office has left America’s European allies scratching their heads. His opinions on NATO, the European...
Ongoing reports and analysis On April 24, 1949, U.S. diplomats in Moscow reported something alarming: Soviet authorities were deliberately blocking...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tensions escalate in South Sudan, Namibia’s new president trims her cabinet,...
Ongoing reports and analysis We had great hope that real change would spring from the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, tragedies—whether it’s a...
Georgia, which sits at the intersection of Europe and Asia, was once considered a bastion of democracy in the region, but lately it has been forced...
Two statements by European leaders put side by side capture the essence of the European dilemma today. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
On March 19, Ekrem Imamoglu—the mayor of Istanbul and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival—was detained by police in a dawn raid; he...
For 75 years, America’s NATO allies have relied on the U.S. nuclear arsenal to provide for the defense of Europe. This was never a terribly logical...
Ongoing reports and analysis Just two months in, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is aggressively challenging judicial constraints on...
Geopolitical storm clouds are gathering at the far reaches of Pax Americana, and yet there is remarkably little sign that the U.S. government or...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at an upcoming U.S. trip to Greenland, Russia and Ukraine agreeing in principle to Black Sea...
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Ongoing reports and analysis Elon Musk is the richest person in the world—one of the richest in history. But Musk’s power is no longer just tied to...
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This article appears in the Spring 2025 print issue of FP. Read more from the issue. This article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign...
Ordinary artifacts at the center of foreign policy More from this series On July 23, 2015, just over a month into his first presidential campaign,...
It is hard to pinpoint exactly when Recep Tayyip Erdogan slipped from the supreme self-confidence of successful politicians to narcissistic hubris....
This article appears in the Spring 2025 print issue of FP. Read more from the issue. This article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign...
The weaponry used in the Russia-Ukraine war has been modern, but land remains the conflict’s most valuable strategic asset. And for Russia, the...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration’s group chat breach reflects how the United States...
On April 27, 2017, Radmila Shekerinska endured the darkest day of her political career. During her tenure as a lawmaker with North Macedonia’s...
Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on...
In 1979, when the Islamic Republic was established in Iran, the new clerical regime enjoyed broad popular support across Iranian society. It would...
For Israel, the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, changed many things. But perhaps the most striking result has been a new definition of border...
Almost 18 months after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the Middle East looks decidedly different. The Assad regime, which ruled Syria brutally...
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