Tag: Foreign Policy

From left, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump attend a casualty return for the soldiers who were killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware on March 7. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

When will Trump be able to declare victory over Iran?

Jamie McIntyre · March 20, 2026 6:05 am

A truck carries the coffins of Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and Gholamreza Soleimani, commander of the Paramilitary Basij Forces, during a funeral for Larijani, Soleimani, and the crew of the sunken IRIS Dena warship in Tehran, Iran, on March 18, 2026. The Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena was torpedoed and sunk by the United States Navy's Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charlotte in the Indian Ocean during the 2026 Iran conflict. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Iran war has already failed

Dan Hannan · March 20, 2026 5:53 am

Protesters in Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 2026.

Empathy derangement syndrome: How Democrats’ warped compassion is shielding Iran’s killers

Daniel Ross Goodman · March 20, 2026 5:35 am

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel marches during a rally

Cuban president warns of ‘impregnable resistance’ after Rubio demands leadership change

Rena Rowe · March 18, 2026 11:57 am

French President Emmanuel Macron.

France will ‘never’ aid in Strait of Hormuz military operations: Emmanuel Macron

Emily Hallas · March 17, 2026 5:32 pm

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Johnson reiterates Iran posed an ‘imminent threat’ after counterterrorism director resigns

David Zimmermann · March 17, 2026 1:15 pm

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, center, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, pose for the media at a hotel prior to an E3 meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands.

Beltway Confidential

Europe should provide Strait of Hormuz naval escorts, NATO notwithstanding

Tom Rogan · March 17, 2026 12:58 pm

Starmer and Trump.

US allies tepid after Trump request to help open Strait of Hormuz

Emily Hallas · March 16, 2026 8:54 am

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and President Donald Trump.

Drug pricing should be near top of agenda at Trump-Takaichi meeting

Tomas Philipson · March 16, 2026 6:00 am

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships crosses the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf.

Coalition to send warships to Hormuz while US bombs ‘the hell out of the shoreline,’ Trump says

Molly Parks · March 14, 2026 10:52 am

Exterior view of the Cuban embassy in Washington

After Venezuelan strongman’s ouster and Iran strikes, is Cuba the Trump administration’s next target?

John Scott Lewinski · March 13, 2026 7:22 am

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019.

Poland investigates suspected Iranian cyberattack day after hackers target US company Stryker

Emily Hallas · March 12, 2026 5:20 pm