Tag: Foreign Policy

Left, smoke pours from New York’s World Trade Center north tower, at right, while flames explode from the south tower after it is struck by American Airlines Flight 175, Sept. 11, 2001; right, a protester in Washington, D.C., unhappy with election results, Nov. 12, 2016. (Left, Chao Soi Cheong/AP; right, Riccardo Savi/Sipa USA/Newscom)

The damage 9/11 did to our country

David Harsanyi · August 28, 2026 6:10 am

President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone with a yellow tie on at the White House.

Beltway Confidential

China smells Trump’s weakness on sanctions and allies

Tom Rogan · August 27, 2026 11:49 am

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to the Treaty Room at the State Department, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Washington.

Italian ‘extremist group’ sanctioned by Trump for helping leftists evade law enforcement worldwide

Hudson Crozier · August 26, 2026 2:58 pm

A woman reads a notification about canceling her visa appointment

Trump administration cancels visa appointments worldwide to bolster consular officer training

Anna Giaritelli · August 26, 2026 10:54 am

Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), speaks to her supporters.

Darline Graham Nordone’s message to Republicans about the midterm elections

W. James Antle III · August 26, 2026 5:00 am

This still taken from CCTV and issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Wednesday Sept. 5, 2018, shows Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov at Salisbury train station on March 3, 2018. British prosecutors have charged two Russian men, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury. They are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok.

Beltway Confidential

Russia sowed the British wind, now it is reaping the whirlwind

Tom Rogan · August 25, 2026 12:11 pm

A view of the UNRWA (UN agency for Palestinian refugees) compound in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel seizes long-standing UNRWA compound in Jerusalem

Mike Brest · August 25, 2026 12:03 pm

Iranian delegates leave the Iranian Embassy in Rome after closed-door meeting at the Oman embassy with a US delegation to discuss Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, Friday, May 23, 2025.

State Department plans to send diplomats back to Middle East as Trump distances from military approach

Emily Hallas · August 25, 2026 8:37 am

President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 8. (Alex Brandon/AP; Washington Examiner)

Trump didn’t abandon Ukraine — he just forced Kyiv to play to win

Eric Wargotz · August 25, 2026 6:00 am

Trump, sitting left, shakes hands with Syrian President Ahmad al Sharaa, left.

US removes Syria’s state sponsor of terrorism designation

Claire Carter · August 24, 2026 5:16 pm

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office

Beltway Confidential

The stalemate increasingly suits Trump over Iran

Tom Rogan · August 24, 2026 11:57 am

President Masoud Pezeshkian, left, sons of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Masoud, center, and Mostafa

Iran’s president calls for peace ‘today’ in acknowledgment of economic warfare

Emily Hallas · August 21, 2026 3:37 pm