Back then, in the first weeks of the war, Russia and Ukraine conducted several rounds of talks in person and online aimed at ...

Trump is one of many ascendant populists who emphasize inward-looking policies and challenge global cooperation. The French ...

They will certainly want to train this major weapon of U.S. economic statecraft on their enemies. Others may be nervous about ...

In the aftermath, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned Assad’s fall as a foreign-orchestrated conspiracy, ...

During the course of Syria’s brutal civil war, Assad used chemical weapons more than 300 times against his own citizens, ...

After public protests and then rebellion erupted in Syria in 2011, Assad’s regime clung to power through systemic torture and ...

Andrei Lankov is a historian of North Korea at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of The Real North Korea: Life and ...

Ben Rhodes is a co-host of the podcast Pod Save the World and the author of After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve ...

The China that President-elect Donald Trump will face in 2025 is fundamentally different than the one he encountered when his first administration began in 2017, or even the one with which he ...

What is happening in the Middle East today is best understood as a struggle over a new regional order. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, three competing visions for that order have ...