With Adam Rawnsley Moscow, Washington and NATO, different threats from different perches. What constitutes a national security threat? It means very different things to ...
Qatar, currently isolated by a host of other Persian Gulf states, will pursue legal action as a way out of the diplomatic stalemate, Foreign Minister ...
As the Islamic State crumbles, American special operations forces and their Arab and Kurdish allies have been working quietly to establish a force of about ...
In a surprising twist, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to repeal a sweeping 2001 law that gives the president wide-ranging authority to ...
The Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate is no more, according to an Iraqi military spokesman, and a new report on the group’s shrinking revenue suggests he ...
With Adam Rawnsley Budget battle! The Senate uncorked a $700 billion defense authorization bill on Wednesday, a proposal that is tens of billions of ...
Last month, the Pentagon declared mission accomplished on its six-year, $800 million hunt for Joseph Kony. Though it failed to kill or capture the notorious ...
With Adam Rawnsley Mattis stays solid on Europe. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doubled down on the U.S. military commitment to Europe on Wednesday, while ...
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is making a quiet appeal to Iran’s leaders to release an elderly American citizen detained on what the U.S. claims are ...
U.S. intelligence detected suspicious movements by Syrian government forces at a major air base in recent days, prompting the White House to warn Damascus it ...
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States, starting with the decision to oust Iraq’s Saddam Hussein launched a ...
With Adam Rawnsley Chemical warfare. Late Monday evening, the White House issued a statement charging that it had "identified potential preparations for another chemical ...
I’m normally leery of the pervasive threat inflation that tends to dominate discussions of foreign policy. Because the United States is so strong and in ...
There’s finally some movement in the standoff between Arab countries and Qatar -- but probably not in the direction U.S. officials were hoping. Late Thursday, ...
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Almost every weekday, tons of lentils, salt, oil and wheat flour are loaded onto an Ilyusin-76 cargo plane at an airport in Jordan. Russian contract ...
With Adam Rawnsley and Elias Groll China’s proposal. Officials in Beijing are pushing the Trump administration to begin negotiations on a temporary freeze on ...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Before the sun rose Wednesday morning in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s order of succession had been transformed in ways ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Two recent and seemingly incongruous events may one day be seen as symbolic turning points for Eritrea, an authoritarian, one-party state ...
With Adam Rawnsley King maker. In a surprise announcement, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has anointed his 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman, to be next ...
Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad ...
The Sudanese government, still designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism and implicated in genocide, has just hired a prominent Washington ...
On Monday, the European Union joined the United Nations, the United States, Turkey, and Iraq to discourage Iraqi Kurds from holding an independence referendum on ...
[audio mp3="https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/170530_thebackstory_mixdown-1.mp3"][/audio] In this episode of The Backstory, Foreign Policy’s executive editor for print, Rebecca Frankel, sits down with reporter Laura Heaton and photojournalist Nichole ...
Russia warned Monday that any U.S. or coalition aircraft flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria will be tracked by Russian warplanes and anti-aircraft ...
On Sunday, six ballistic missiles launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched from western Iran, and came crashing down on their targets in ...
With Adam Rawnsley Afghan surge, again and again. Military officials have been saying for months they need somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 more troops ...
MASIF, Iraqi Kurdistan — In a career spanning 55 years as an independence fighter, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan is intent this year on reaching ...
In the coming weeks, President Donald Trump will become the third American president in 16 years to surge troops into Afghanistan. But he will also ...
Earlier this month, Foreign Policy sat down with the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan, President Masoud Barzani. A transcript of the conversation follows. (FP's article about ...
One grievance underpinning the ongoing diplomatic conflict between Qatar and its fellow Gulf Arab countries is Doha’s close ties to a variety of extremist elements ...
One grievance underpinning the ongoing diplomatic conflict between Qatar and its fellow Gulf Arab countries is Doha’s close ties to a variety of extremist elements ...
Air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition on Raqqa in northern Syria have killed at least 300 since March, United Nations investigators said. "As the operation ...
It was only three weeks ago that President Donald Trump, in Riyadh, proclaimed that he had secured unprecedented unity amongst Sunni governments to fight the ...
Tensions in the Middle East have hit new heights in the weeks following U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Riyadh. During that trip, Saudi Arabia’s ...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday narrowly defeated a measure that would have blocked the sale of over $500 million worth of precision-guided munition kits to ...
The blogosphere has been flooded with suggestions regarding America’s role in mediating the intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) dispute between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates ...
The United States and France are hurtling toward a potential dust-up, as the Trump administration weighs vetoing a French Security Council resolution empowering an African ...
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