Middle East

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a regime that...

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Donald Trump only Greenland should decide on its future, standing her ground following the American’s public coveting of the Danish overseas territory. The United...

European leaders welcomed reports of a long-awaited cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas and expressed cautious optimism it could lay the groundwork for a lasting peace — provided all parties...

Mark Leonard is the director the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). We are experiencing the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez. But it is unfolding in such a...

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday urged colleagues to reject a ceasefire deal in the country’s bloody conflict with Hamas. He also outraged some families of hostages held...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has guaranteed safe passage for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to travel to an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the allied liberation of...

BERLIN — With lots of laughter, earnest agreement and effusive mutual appreciation, it started off like a promising date between two nervous teenagers (she even forgave him for getting her...

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was locked up in Iran last month, has been freed and is on a plane that departed from Tehran on Wednesday. Italian Prime Minister...

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s...

The New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans is a warning that ISIS, and foreign terror groups in general, still have influence in the United States, the Pentagon’s civilian...