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’

Barr appoints US attorney to investigate ‘unmasking’ requests by Obama officials

Jerry Dunleavy May 28, 2020 3:45 am

Trump to mull ‘targeted’ response to China’s encroachment on Hong Kong

Joel Gehrke May 27, 2020 10:43 pm

Immigration system ‘ground to a halt’ due to coronavirus

Anna Giaritelli May 27, 2020 10:25 pm

Trump should stand with India, not offer to mediate with China

Tom Rogan May 27, 2020 6:53 pm

In this April 4, 2019, file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., listens to witnesses during the Committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

‘Unacceptable’: Josh Hawley slams Google for ‘kowtowing’ to Chinese Communist Party

Carly Ortiz-Lytle May 27, 2020 5:40 pm

Pompeo: ‘Hong Kong does not continue to warrant’ special US treatment amid China crackdown

Joel Gehrke May 27, 2020 4:22 pm

Senators aim sanctions ‘spear’ at China’s banks

Joel Gehrke May 26, 2020 10:28 pm

To respond to Russian jets, give the Libyan government Patriot missile systems

Tom Rogan May 26, 2020 9:05 pm

President-elect Trump recently angered Chinese officials when he spoke with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen earlier this month, breaking from decades of precedent. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP, File)

China’s aircraft carriers are playing games with Taiwan, not preparing for war

Tom Rogan May 26, 2020 8:40 pm

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman waits for the group photo with world leaders at the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.

Trump must push Saudi Arabia over its treatment of US ally Saad al Jabri

Tom Rogan May 26, 2020 6:15 pm

Russian fighter jets were recently deployed to Libya in order to support Russian state-sponsored private military contractors operating on the ground there. The Russian fighter aircraft arrived in Libya, from an airbase in Russia, after transiting Syria where it is assessed they were repainted to camouflage their Russian origin.

Russia secretly sends fighter jets to shore up Libyan strongman, says US Africa Command

Abraham Mahshie May 26, 2020 5:12 pm

In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, medical workers in protective suits work on nucleic acid testing work at a coronavirus detection lab in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP)

The US must disentangle itself from China

Sen. John Barrasso May 26, 2020 4:17 am