Tag: Foreign Policy

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, talk with reporters following their meeting with President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the government funding crisis, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025.

Schumer presses Republicans critical of Venezuela attack to pull back White House military powers

Emily Hallas · January 3, 2026 5:50 pm

Venezuelan Vice President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 10, 2025.

Who is Delcy Rodriguez? Venezuela’s new president cooperating with Trump after Maduro’s capture

Emily Hallas · January 3, 2026 3:41 pm

Venezuelans celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026.

Venezuelans pour into streets to celebrate Maduro’s fall

Emily Hallas · January 3, 2026 1:07 pm

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at his Mar-a-Lago club, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla., with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

What is the Delta Force? The US military unit behind the Venezuela raid toppling Maduro

Emily Hallas · January 3, 2026 12:13 pm

Venezuelans celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026.

What to know about the US strikes on Venezuela and Maduro’s fall

Emily Hallas · January 3, 2026 10:45 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago club, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla.

WATCH LIVE: Trump talks toppling ‘dictator’ Maduro at Mar-a-Lago press conference

Emily Hallas · January 3, 2026 10:02 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine dupes Russia into paying $500,000 bounty with fake assassination of Putin opponent

Emily Hallas · January 2, 2026 7:52 pm

Bannon slams Trump Iran threat as straight out of ‘Hillary Clinton playbook’

Emily Hallas · January 2, 2026 6:33 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of general staff, during a meeting with senior military officers at the Kremlin in Moscow.

Beltway Confidential

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2026 3:42 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, right, shake hands as President Bill Clinton looks on after the signing of the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn, Sept. 13, 1993. Under this “Declaration of Principles,” Israel recognized the PLO as the Palestinian representative, while the PLO claimed to have renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist. (Ron Edmond /AP)

Year zero for the modern Middle East: Israel reckons with the futility of ‘land for peace’

Sean Durns · January 2, 2026 4:10 am

Conservative author Norman Podhoretz (James Keyser/Getty Images)

Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025

Daniel Ross Goodman · January 2, 2026 12:05 am

Palestinians look over makeshift tents of a camp for displaced people in an area of Gaza City on Dec. 29, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

The Trump administration’s unfinished business in Gaza

David Mark · January 1, 2026 11:25 pm