Tag: Foreign Policy

President Donald Trump speaks to House Republican lawmakers during their annual policy retreat.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Capturing Maduro proves it: Trump’s foreign policy is isolation-ish

Conner Brace · January 12, 2026 6:00 am

Hamas militants search for the remains of Israeli hostage in Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hamas vows to dissolve Gaza government after Palestinian leadership panel installed

David Zimmermann · January 11, 2026 2:26 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with oil executives.

Trump’s foreign policy threatens grip on congressional Republicans

Naomi Lim · January 10, 2026 6:00 am

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei chastises Trump for weighing in on Iran protests: ‘Will not back down’

David Zimmermann · January 9, 2026 11:22 am

Evana, an oil tanker, is docked at El Palito Port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.

US seizes oil tanker sanctioned for transporting Russian oil

David Zimmermann · January 9, 2026 9:58 am

The El Palito refinery rises above Puerto Cabello, Dec. 2025. (Matias Delacroix/AP)

Economic implications of Maduro ouster in Venezuela are broad and deep

Zach Halaschak · January 9, 2026 5:50 am

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, right, shakes hands with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, during a meeting at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Russia and Venezuela agreed to broaden their oil production cooperation, Russia's Lavrov said from Caracas. Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Venezuela raid is about the oil — keeping it from Russia and China

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 9, 2026 5:15 am

This combination of pictures created on January 06, 2026 shows Greenland's Head of Government Jens-Frederik Nielsen (L, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 8, 2025) and US President Donald Trump (at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025). Greenland's prime minister on January 5, 2026 called for renewed talks with the US after President Donald Trump repeated that he wanted to annex the mineral-rich Arctic territory. "The situation is not such that the United States can conquer Greenland. That is not the case. Therefore, we must not panic. We must restore the good cooperation we once had," Jens-Frederik Nielsen said, adding "we must try to re-establish contact". (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN and ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s Caligulan grab for Greenland

Dan Hannan · January 9, 2026 4:57 am

María Corina Machado addresses supporters at a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela on Jan. 9, 2025, a day ahead of Maduro’s inauguration. (Ariana Cubillos/AP)

María Corina Machado beat out Trump for the Nobel, but may have lost the bigger prize

Jamie McIntyre · January 9, 2026 4:27 am

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Molly Riley/The White House/AP)

Why Trump trained his sights on Venezuela

Sean Durns · January 9, 2026 4:05 am

At left, a detail from an engraving of the beheading of France’s King Louis XVI during the Terror of 1793; at right, a Ukrainian soldier checks the skies for Russian drones in the heavily damaged Donetsk town of Kostyantynivka, Nov. 12, 2025. (left, Roger-Viollet/Getty; right, Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade/AP)

Washington’s echo: America and Europe at a crossroads once more

Daniel Ross Goodman · January 9, 2026 4:02 am

Reza Pahlavi and Donald Trump

Trump says meeting with Iranian crown prince calling for protests would not be ‘appropriate’

Ross O'Keefe · January 8, 2026 10:23 pm