Tag: Foreign Policy

Chinese President Xi Jinping, presses a button to vote

China to deliver new air defense systems to Iran in coming weeks: Report

Emily Hallas · April 12, 2026 9:58 am

President Donald Trump conducts a news conference in the White House briefing room about the war in Iran on Monday, April 6, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump to impose naval blockade in Strait of Hormuz to stop Iranian ‘world extortion’

Emily Hallas · April 12, 2026 9:15 am

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrives for a meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan, for talks about Iran on Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

US, Iran, and Pakistan hold direct three-way talks in Islamabad

David Zimmermann · April 11, 2026 1:53 pm

President Donald Trump, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Trump endorses Lindsey Graham after senator’s consistent backing of Iran war

Claire Carter · April 10, 2026 6:22 pm

Vice President JD Vance boards Air Force Two, Friday, April 10, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., for expected departure to Pakistan, for talks on Iran.

High stakes negotiations on Iran, Israel, and Lebanon to play out: What you need to know

Mike Brest · April 10, 2026 5:00 pm

A Ukrainian soldier from the “Taifun” unmanned aerial vehicle unit holds a new model Marsianin attack drone on April 7 in Kharkiv region, Ukraine. (Nikoletta Stoyanova/Getty Images)

The other war: Volodymyr Zelensky navigates a future without US support

Jamie McIntyre · April 10, 2026 6:23 am

Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes, on April 9, 2026 in Tehran.

Iran and the modern way of war

Dominic Green · April 10, 2026 6:06 am

This illustration photo created in Los Angeles on April 9, 2026 shows a Lego-style AI-generated war-themed video playing on a smartphone screen in front of a photo of US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Shortly after news of a US-Iran ceasefire, an Iranian group released a new Lego-style video lampooning President Donald Trump and declaring "Iran won," the latest in a wave of war-themed AI-generated propaganda flooding the internet. Cartoonish video memes -- amplified by Iranian diplomatic missions and pro-Tehran accounts on social media -- are emerging as an effective tool in an intensifying information war, a phenomenon analysts have dubbed the "legofication" of war propaganda. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP via Getty Images)

Can Trump survive after losing a war?

Dan Hannan · April 10, 2026 5:59 am

President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper gun.

Trump goes scorched earth on Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones

David Zimmermann · April 9, 2026 5:03 pm

JD Vance.

Vance calls US-Iran ceasefire deal a ‘fragile truce’

Mabinty Quarshie · April 8, 2026 9:46 am

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, talks with Vice President JD Vance

Vance builds foreign policy profile as possible Rubio foil ahead of 2028

Emily Hallas · April 8, 2026 7:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington.

Trump’s crisis communications skills tested by Iran war

W. James Antle III · April 7, 2026 4:57 pm