Foreign Policy

IDF Military Drone Unit seen training with drones near Kibbutz Merom Golan, on the Syrian border in northern Golan Heights, Israel on June 26, 2025.

US and Israel negotiating $3 billion aid payments through 2033, despite Trump saying aid will end this year

Brady Knox · November 13, 2026 1:16 pm

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, and Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Ukrainian officials Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

Witkoff and Kushner spearhead Russia and Iran negotiations. Has Rubio been sidelined?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends a meeting with President Donald Trump of the multinational political and security coalition "Shield of the Americas" on the sidelines the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, at the UN headquarters.

‘Unprecedented’ for Treasury secretary to leave home over Iranian threat: Joe Concha

The embassy of the Russian Federation, located in the Northwest Washington neighborhood of Glover Park.

Russian ambassador to US ‘suddenly’ dead at 66

Dr. Adam Hamawy speaks during an AFP interview after meetings at the White House and on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC, on June 14, 2024. All three medical professional recently returned to the US after volunteering in Gaza.

Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary: ‘We’ve killed a lot of them’

Belarus crackdown meets Trump administration deafening silence

Tom Rogan August 10, 2020 4:02 pm

In this Monday, June 1, 2020 photo, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko meets with Valery Vakulchik, chief of the Belarusian state security service, KGB, in Minsk, Belarus.

In Belarus, a bloody election farce

Tom Rogan August 9, 2020 7:28 pm

Smoke rises from the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020.

Will Lebanon suffer a political explosion?

Tom Rogan August 9, 2020 5:43 pm

Why China is warning Trump of war

Tom Rogan August 9, 2020 1:32 pm

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his ruling party members, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 26, 2019.

Turkey threatens Greece and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea

Tom Rogan August 9, 2020 11:31 am

The State Department has a Turkey problem

Michael Rubin August 9, 2020 10:00 am

Though more terrible in the moment, the nuclear option was at least limited and avoided a street massacre of conscripted civilians. (AP Photo/Stanley Troutman)

Truman’s decision saved a million lives

William D. Balgord August 9, 2020 4:00 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Belarus is making history. The US should pay close attention

alexis-mrachek August 9, 2020 4:00 am

Brent Scowcroft’s foreign policy theories never passed the reality test

Michael Rubin August 8, 2020 7:17 pm

US vows to send $17M in aid to Lebanon to help with explosion recovery

Madison Dibble August 8, 2020 1:54 pm

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested on charges of spying in Moscow at the end of 2018.

Russia sends former Marine to prison established ‘as part of the gulag under Stalin’

Joel Gehrke August 8, 2020 10:30 am

Chinese and Russian military spending could actually exceed the US

Jason Orestes August 7, 2020 7:28 pm