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’

Chinese President Xi Jinping.

GOP senators write Trump urging NSC-led rebuttal to Chinese coronavirus propaganda

Joel Gehrke March 23, 2020 8:45 pm

Bringing fighters to regions where U.S. policymakers are worried about Russian and Chinese aggression. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Brandon Shapiro)

Amid coronavirus, a reminder that air superiority matters

Tom Rogan March 23, 2020 8:35 pm

Health officials investigating loss of smell or taste as early coronavirus warning sign

Joel Gehrke March 23, 2020 6:39 pm

China said Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of its exports, raising the prospect of a full-blown trade war.

Why China’s coronavirus PR campaign is doomed

Tom Rogan March 23, 2020 6:03 pm

Oil, gold, and the coronavirus economy

Bruce Yandle March 22, 2020 4:00 am

President Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump writes Kim Jong Un about coronavirus as North Korea fires rockets

Joel Gehrke March 22, 2020 12:13 am

Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, speaks during a news conference introducing the Inclusive Prosperity Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

Omar joins 14 Democrats calling for ICE to halt deportations because of coronavirus

Andrew Mark Miller March 21, 2020 8:08 pm

Claim they're going shopping: Border officials allow hundreds of Mexican vehicles to cross despite Trump ban

Anna Giaritelli March 21, 2020 6:35 pm

‘It is true’: Chinese ambassador backs Hillary Clinton tweet criticizing Trump’s ‘racist rhetoric’

Spencer Neale March 21, 2020 3:20 pm

A television screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 21, 2020. North Korea on Saturday fired two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea's military said, as it continues to expand military capabilities amid deadlocked nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration and a crippling global health crisis.

‘Inappropriate act’: North Korea test fires two short-range missiles

Zach Halaschak March 21, 2020 3:30 am

Top Italian official points to chance virus came from Germany as powerful Chinese minimize role in contagion

Joel Gehrke March 20, 2020 11:30 pm

The U.S. has become a net oil exporter thanks to the shale boom, but refineries still depend on imports.

‘Incredibly damaging’: US oil lobby chief opposes proposal to have Texas conspire with OPEC

Josh Siegel March 20, 2020 6:36 pm