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’

China uses coronavirus vaccine to seduce key US ally

Joel Gehrke July 28, 2020 5:28 pm

The IRGC will continue its overreach until directly confronted, or until it achieves the regional dominance it clearly seeks. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian aircraft carrier exercise is a veil for fear and weakness

Tom Rogan July 28, 2020 5:22 pm

Rodrigo Duterte will not allow US base in Philippines to counter China

Joel Gehrke July 27, 2020 9:44 pm

Israeli soldiers stand outside a tunnel that the army says crosses from Lebanon to Israel, in Zarit, northern Israel, Monday, June 3, 2019. (The Israeli military says it has finished sealing the last of a series of Hezbollah attack tunnels under the country's northern border with Lebanon, roughly six months after they were found.)

Why the Lebanese Hezbollah is escalating against Israel

Tom Rogan July 27, 2020 7:28 pm

Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin plays Volodymyr Zelensky with Ukraine ceasefire

Tom Rogan July 27, 2020 6:54 pm

Russia markets heavy flamethrower to foreign customers

Joel Gehrke July 27, 2020 5:06 pm

The State Department spent $1.5 billion on Somali democracy and built a dictatorship

Michael Rubin July 27, 2020 4:09 pm

US quits Chengdu Consulate as China retaliates for closure of Houston outpost

Joel Gehrke July 27, 2020 3:02 pm

Shared courage against China: Why Australia deserves a second state visit

Tom Rogan July 26, 2020 6:47 pm

Pedestrians, one wearing a mask, walk by a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street in Beijing.

Xi Jinping shows his clownish evil with Ren Zhiqiang punishment

Tom Rogan July 26, 2020 5:04 pm

People clash with police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition figure. A Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent foe, was arrested on Jan. 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.

Thousands gather in Russia’s far east for third straight weekend of anti-Putin protests

Haley Victory Smith July 25, 2020 7:41 pm

Primary source for Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier identified

Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin July 25, 2020 2:20 pm