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If the old Washington, D.C., adage that "personnel is policy" applies, Chinese President Xi Jinping has his work cut out for him over the next four...
Any descriptions of Donald Trump's foreign policy right now should be read as entertainment, not fact.
What You Need to Know: North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia’s Kursk region to support its Ukraine war efforts has raised alarms in...
Discussions between Ukrainian and Russian officials about ceasing attacks on energy infrastructure stopped when Zelensky ordered the Kursk offensive.
Despite the ebb and flow of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been consistent about his overall objective: total victory....
On October 1, Israel dodged a bullet—or, more accurately, a barrage of 180 ballistic missiles from Iran.
When asked on Oct. 2 whether he would support an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program, President Joe Biden replied "no." It's the right answer and...
It's difficult to see how the war will end anytime soon.
Netanyahu can have one or the other—save the remaining hostages or destroy Hamas, which the IDF's own spokesman acknowledged isn't possible—but...
Despite what AMLO and his surrogates may say in public, it's difficult not to see the judicial reform measure as nothing short of a transparent...
U.S. military force against Iran will have first and second-order effects, all of them negative.
War is ugly and unpredictable.
Every U.S. president over the last two decades has arrived at the White House thinking that with enough perseverance, resolve and dexterity, they can...
The Korean Peninsula, arguably the most heavily militarized region of the world, hasn't seen full-scale conflict since July 27, 1953, when an...
No policy choice is cost-free. Not even when the benefits are clear.
Between August 2006 and October 2023, the Israeli-Lebanese border region was for the most part stable. Despite the occasional rocket attack or mortar...
The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress, his appearance caused considerable strain in the...
To say that Americans of all walks of life have an opinion about J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, would be...
As President Joe Biden and U.S. officials get down to business with NATO allies in Washington, D.C., this week, one question lurks over the entire...
June 9 was the worst moment of French President Emmanuel Macron's political career. Or so many thought. His political grouping, Renew Europe, was...
Despite all the pro-forma statements about keeping NATO's door open to new members, it should be abundantly clear by now that the alliance doesn't...
What to make of Russian President Vladimir Putin's short stay in North Korea this week, where he greeted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un like a long...
The war will go on, possibly until the end of the year.
With solutions nowhere near the horizon, the name of the game is kicking the North Korea problem for another day and maintaining as much stability as...
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when the two Koreas, perhaps the world's most bitter adversaries, were actually striking deals with each...
Last weekend, Israel committed a tragic error in the field. According to Israel's own account, a precision munition launched by the Israel Defense...
Washington, D.C., is a town divided, with major pieces of legislation stalled, collegiality between Republicans and Democrats virtually nonexistent,...
How long this relationship lasts is anybody's guess.
Diplomatic prospects look bleak.
During his seventh trip to the Middle East since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a...
Washington, D.C., a city known for gridlock, uncongeniality, and partisan warfare, is basking in celebration this week. After six long months, the...
If the penultimate question last week was how Iran would respond after Israel bombed an Iranian diplomatic facility in Syria on April 1, the question...
Israel recently conducted its most daring operation against Iran since the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, used a remote-controlled...
For the Biden administration, an Israel-Saudi normalization accord is the diplomatic equivalent of catching a white whale on the high seas. It's of...
Shortly after President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address, he ran into Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado as he made his way out of...
President Joe Biden is a lot more predictable than Donald Trump ever was, and the Chinese love predictability.
It's official: Joe Biden and Donald Trump have locked up their party's respective nominations and will be meeting face-to-face in November for a...
To say that the Biden administration is frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be a significant understatement. The hardline...
When Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian people during his annual speech to the nation last February, his war in Ukraine was losing...
Can the United States use its leverage over Israel to stop the war in Gaza? Does it have significant leverage to begin with? To some, those questions...
This week, U.S., Israeli, Egyptian, and Qatari officials met in Cairo to continue discussions on how to hammer out a truce in Gaza. As one might...
As President Joe Biden walked toward Air Force One on Jan. 18, he was asked whether the ongoing U.S. military strikes against the Houthis were working...
If you didn't know any better, you might think the United States was on the precipice of a war with Iran. That's what some commentators and lawmakers...
With the Israel-Hamas war deep into its fourth month, U.S. diplomats are hard at work trying to hammer out another truce in order to accelerate...
Whether or not the United States was wise to strike the Houthis militarily is now an irrelevant question. For good or ill, President Joe Biden...
Scandals are a dime a dozen in Washington, D.C., and occur so frequently that some don't even make headlines anymore. But the kerfuffle over Defense...
If history tells us anything, it's that Israel isn't afraid to neutralize its sworn enemies regardless of where they're located. This is especially...
It’s difficult to look at the Korean Peninsula and conclude that Washington’s perennial North Korea problem will be any less relevant at the end...
The 11 week-long war between Israel and Hamas is only getting more complicated as the days continue. And as the fighting persists, leaders on all...