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’

Boris Johnson instructs all nonessential businesses to shut down in United Kingdom

Spencer Neale March 20, 2020 6:35 pm

Trump: All immigrants arrested for illegally crossing border to be returned to home countries

Anna Giaritelli March 20, 2020 5:10 pm

US and Mexico agree to block all nonessential travel at shared border, exempting trade

Anna Giaritelli March 20, 2020 4:28 pm

Debate over coronavirus name is stupid and counterproductive

Michael Rubin March 20, 2020 4:05 pm

Human Rights Watchâs Executive Director Kenneth Roth, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.

Human Rights Watch’s Saudi funding scandal tarnishes the NGO industry

Gerald M. Steinberg March 20, 2020 2:44 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during his news conference after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province, Sunday, June 10, 2018. Putin says counter-terrorism efforts are a priority for a regional grouping led by Moscow and Beijing. Putin said a new agreement approved by the SCO spells out plans for joint-anti-terror efforts for the next three years. The SCO includes China, Russia, four ex-Soviet Central Asian nations, India and Pakistan.

What’s going on with coronavirus in Russia?

Tom Rogan March 20, 2020 10:57 am

Did the NSA bust China’s coronavirus cover-up?

Tom Rogan March 20, 2020 9:53 am

‘Governments are really scared’: Virus builds back borders that European Union demolished

Joel Gehrke March 20, 2020 4:00 am

Auto industry says virus is undermining efforts to adjust to new trade rules

Sean Higgins March 20, 2020 3:00 am

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. More recently, two U.S. defense companies were sanctioned by the Chinese government due to their participation in arms sales with Taiwan.

Taiwan plans to donate 100,000 hospital masks to US per week

Joel Gehrke March 19, 2020 8:49 pm

Dutch health minister leading coronavirus response resigns day after fainting in Parliament

Zach Halaschak March 19, 2020 7:03 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia in 2019, while the two leaders may be meeting in-person this week for the first time since then.

How North Korea or Russia could take advantage of coronavirus pandemic

John Dale Grover March 19, 2020 6:48 pm