When Russia began its military intervention in Syria in 2015, shifting the civil war’s momentum in favor of the Assad regime, many in the West grew concerned about the Kremlin’s ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the killing of a top Hamas official in Iran, an assassination attempt on Sudan’s de facto leader, and Ukraine repelling a ...
More than a dozen Palestinian factions, including bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas, signed a joint declaration in Beijing on Tuesday vowing to form an interim unity government, although experts are ...
What has often been circumscribed as “the rise of the rest”—the relative ascendancy of the non-Western powers—has been felt particularly acutely in Asia. When the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama ...
Russia’s war in Ukraine dominated the NATO summit in Washington this week as the alliance unveiled plans to intensify support for Kyiv and offer an “irreversible” path to eventual membership ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Moscow, a former prime minister of Pakistan forms a new political party, and massive ...
Although much of Russia’s foreign policy has been directed at the Middle East, Africa, and—since February 2022—the conquest of Ukraine, Moscow has recently shown that it remains a formidable presence ...
The future of U.S.-European relations is emerging as one of the most significant factors that will shape the global system. NATO’s celebration of its 75th anniversary at the bloc’s summit ...
More than six months after the Houthi insurgent group in Yemen started seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the Red Sea, global shipping has had to come to terms with a ...
China is sharply increasing its violent attacks against Philippine vessels and sailors in disputed waters off the Philippine coast, with the latest Chinese assault this week maiming a Philippine sailor ...