Since late July, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious domestic political strife since Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president in 2019. Amid an intensifying wave of Russian drone and...

On July 15, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy toward Russia: secondary tariffs that would take effect within 50 days unless Russian President Vladimir...

For the French political elite, this is a moment of scarcely concealed glee. The Trump administration’s deep hostility toward Europe—including the imposition of steep new tariffs, verbal attacks on European...

In the early 19th century, the Al Qasimi clan posed a formidable challenge to the British East India Company. They were labeled as a dangerous tribe of pirates with whom the...

This August will mark the 80th anniversary of the United States’ dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. On Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay carried out...

Recent news reports suggest U.S. President Donald Trump may finally have overcome his seeming unwillingness to level additional economic sanctions on Russia. Faced with the reality that at the current...

“‘Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?’ The befuddlement of 5-year-old Myeko Nakamura moments after the first atomic bomb fell at 8:15 on the...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the global response to new U.S. tariffs, Gaza’s escalating hunger crisis, and former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol refusing to be...

PALMYRA, Syria—Not long after the Islamic State arrived, 15-year-old Abd al-Hamid al-Ali realized he had to escape. It was 2015, the zenith of Syria’s ruinous civil war. Palmyra, a modern...

One August day in 1951, a giant fleet of balloons sailed into Czechoslovakia. It must have been a strange sight, 3,000 rubber bags floating overhead before bursting open and raining...