The conflict between the US and Iran is beginning to flare again and President Donald Trump says he couldn’t care less. He’s confident his new plan for an “Economic D-Day” that brings Iran to heel by ...

In the current Russian leadership’s rather 19th — though increasingly 21st — century view of how the world works, lesser powers must defer to great ones or pay the price. The UK, a country in a catego...

Mykhailo Fedorov is perhaps the standout political figure to have been forged in Ukraine by Russia’s invasion. He is smart, young, so far untouched by any corruption scandal and the force behind two t...

Earlier this year, as the Islamic Republic of Iran was busy crushing the largest protests since those in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, President Donald Trump promised that help was on its way....

If the world of international affairs had self-help books, this year’s bestseller might be titled How to Find Hope When It’s Hopeless. There are so many examples for it to include, from peace in Ukrai...

No wonder Donald Trump swore at his supposed friend and ally Benjamin Netanyahu last week. Within days of that June 1 phone call, Israel and Iran were back on track for the kind of military escalation...

While in China, Donald Trump said the pile of 440 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium that were at the heart of his justification for going to war with Iran is, in fact, safely under 24/7 surveillance b...

For a man who understands the power of leverage, Donald Trump is being remarkably slow to recognize the influence Iran has gained in the Strait of Hormuz. The US president’s threat to complete its clo...

Donald Trump’s decision to go to war in the Middle East has dealt a huge blow to Ukraine. It rescued Russia from a budget crisis, strained Kyiv’s debt-laden benefactors in Europe, ripped through stock...

Early in 2003, with the US still in shock over Al Qaeda’s 9/11 terrorist attacks, Washington called on allies to join it in going to war with Iraq. Some answered the call, but not France, which argued...

Despite President Donald Trump’s blustering that America benefits when oil prices surge, crunch time is fast approaching for both the war and the energy market. He either ends the conflict quickly, or...

Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events.

Iran’s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader has been likely since the day US-Israeli air strikes “martyred” his father. It became inevitable the moment Donald Trump said he’d be an “unacc...

You can’t accuse the US of mission creep one week into a war, especially when the initial goals for Operation Epic Fury were so broadly defined as to be unknowable. But taking President Donald Trump’s...

US President Donald Trump never did explain to Congress or anyone else what his justifications and goals would be for attacking Iran. Now, with “Operation Epic Fury” underway, we know. The answer was ...

Donald Trump is fond of saying wars don’t start on his watch and that he’s ended some we never knew possible. That’s at least up for debate, as the US president lays his finger on the trigger of anoth...

During the Biden administration, the most effective tool Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had to sustain his invasion of Ukraine proved to be his warnings of nuclear escalation, a tactic that prompte...

The remains of the final Israeli hostage Hamas abducted to Gaza during the group’s savage Oct. 7, 2023, attack on kibbutzim have now returned home. The event marks a turning point for the US-led peace...

As a US citizen living abroad, I sympathize with European outrage over Donald Trump’s naked attempt to bully Denmark, a particularly loyal NATO ally, into handing over Greenland. In fact, if he stays ...

You know Iran’s leaders are worried about the implications of last weekend’s US raid in Venezuela when the editor of the hardline Javan newspaper feels he has to write a polemic — headlined Iran Is No...

Denmark was worried about US intentions toward Greenland even before Donald Trump sent his troops and bombers into Venezuela over the weekend, but now the Danes are truly alarmed — and so they should ...

Of the two main sticking points in getting a deal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that Kyiv, if not Moscow, can accept, there seems to have been a breakthrough on security guarantees. Territorial ...

Over the past week, Ukraine’s top military commander has given his most detailed assessment yet of the fight to halt Russia’s invasion. This wasn’t prompted by any sudden battlefield reversal. It refl...

Nothing about the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy should shock European leaders, still less the enthusiastic welcome that this confirmation of a revolution in US foreign policy h...

His “peace-in-a-day” is ludicrous, but if he does the groundwork he can avoid capitulation and engineer a win.

Late in the summer of 1939, the Soviet and German Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the infamous non-aggression pact that divided Eastern Europe between their nati...

Turkey has recently taken a range of steps that together look a lot like a realignment with the West. It reduced imports of Russian oil and natural gas; is considering US and South Korean companies ov...

First Bakhmut, then Avdiivka, now Pokrovsk. In each of the last three years, Russia’s generals have identified a midsize Ukrainian town as their invasion’s next critical target, expending vast amounts...

Ukraine is about to suffer its most brutal winter since Russia invaded in 2022. That isn’t a risk but a certainty as both sides sense they’re blocked on the ground and focus on the long-range air war....

Could the US imposition of sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, backed by similar measures from Europe, mark the moment when the transatlantic alliance finally does what it takes to pressu...

There’s every reason to believe leaked accounts that a shouting match erupted between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskiy when they met in Washington last week. We’ve seen it before, after all, on ca...

At the General Chereshnya drone factory, Maxym, a tattooed former aircraft engineer with ear tunnels the size of quarters in his lobes opens a door to the whirr and clatter of 74 busy 3D printers. The...

Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal, the first stage in a 20-point plan to end the war. Does this, as Donald Trump says, mean we’re on the cusp of everlasting peace in the Middle East? Will...

When Donald Trump returned to office promising to end to the war in Gaza, he not unreasonably touted his first term success in negotiating the so-called Abraham accords between Israel and its Arab nei...

Trump’s U-turn leaves the pair to fight Putin on their own.

Sunday’s vote may decide if it’s too late for Europe there.

The US and Europe have a lot to learn from Russia’s warning shot at Poland

The consequences of Israel's attack in Qatar

This week’s Tianjin military summit shone by its coherence alone.

Even the six peace deals he cited as evidence don’t support him.

Trump thinking that Putin wants to make peace as a favor really is “crazy.”

Two versions of the US president could have attended the tete-a-tete. Unfortunately, the wrong one did.

Talking to foes is a great idea, but successful summits demand a lot more preparation.

Netanyahu has doubled down on war in Gaza — again. That can only threaten his country’s long-term survival.

The UK’s diplomatic conditions give needless and risky leverage to Hamas.

A misstep on corruption has punctured his once heroic image.

Enough is clear to know that a ceasefire should be the only priority.

Corruption threatens European aid for arms.