Tag: Foreign Policy

ICE agents remove chains and handcuffs from a group of undocumented migrants before they are escorted across the McAllen–Hidalgo–Reynosa International Bridge in McAllen, Texas, Friday, March 13, 2026. Dozens of migrants from countries including Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, China, Guatemala and El Salvador were handed over to Mexican authorities. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

ICE arrests sister of Cuban business official who posed ‘threat’ to US

David Zimmermann · May 21, 2026 9:23 pm

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te cheers during a ceremony commemorating the 66th anniversary of a deadly attack by China on Kinmen Island, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.

Trump snubs Xi in promise to have first direct talk with leader ‘running Taiwan’ in almost 50 years

Emily Hallas · May 21, 2026 5:24 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia promises ‘active support’ for Cuba as US presses Castro regime

Emily Hallas · May 21, 2026 12:27 pm

Former Cuban President Raul Castro, center, and President Miguel Diaz-Canel, second left, attend an event celebrating Revolution Day

Beltway Confidential

Capturing Raul Castro would be more difficult than capturing Nicolas Maduro

Tom Rogan · May 21, 2026 11:53 am

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, listens as the House Rules Committee prepares a bill to reverse a Biden administration firearms-related regulation on so-called pistol braces.

Chip Roy files bill to ban Islamist and Chinese homeownership in the US

Kiara Moore · May 19, 2026 2:39 pm

Plumes of smoke after strikes in the UAE.

Beltway Confidential

With UAE strikes, Iran targets US credibility

Tom Rogan · May 19, 2026 2:12 pm

France's Defense Minister Catherine Vautrin, 2nd right, Italy's defence minister Guido Crosetto, 2nd left, Britain's John Healey, right European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice-President Kaja Kallas, third left, and Polish vice defence minister Paweł Zalewski attend a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.

Poland presses Trump on canceled US deployment: ‘We will get answers’

Emily Hallas · May 19, 2026 11:14 am

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks in Athens, Greece, on July 2, 2005.

Beltway Confidential

Angela Merkel for Ukraine war mediator? Forget it

Tom Rogan · May 18, 2026 1:50 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shake hands.

Russia and Iran welcome discussions with China after Trump-Xi summit

Brady Knox · May 15, 2026 8:33 am

President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine layered on the Strait of Hormuz. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP; Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)

What’s Trump’s next move in Iran?

Jamie McIntyre · May 15, 2026 7:23 am

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The red lines Trump must protect in China

Tom Rogan · May 14, 2026 6:00 am

President Donald Trump boards Marine One as he departs the White House for travel to Beijing,

Trump has boiled Iran war down to ‘three sentences’: Byron York

Kiara Moore · May 13, 2026 11:44 am