Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry announced on X Thursday that the Russian Foreign Ministry has decided to recognize ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where at least one of your co-authors is spending the long July 4 holiday weekend at the beach in Delaware. (No sighting thus ...
Baltic coastal states are stepping up their legal enforcement measures to further pressure Russia’s continued use of a so-called shadow fleet of tankers to circumvent Western sanctions and fund its ...
Commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump’s successful brokering of a cease-fire between Israel and Iran on June 24, a Ukrainian pundit observed: “Donald Trump has demonstrated to Donald Trump how ...
Claudie Weber is a senior program advisor at the U.S. State Department. She got in touch with me by email in May, looking to discuss “recent developments” and copying several of ...
This year, Europe celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the beginning of what came next. The declaration of Austrian independence on April 27, 1945, ...
The world’s attention was, for a while, on Ukraine. Then it shifted on a dime to Gaza. Now it’s Iran. The focus and the concern were all entirely justified. But ...
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stated that “I ...
Satellite imagery often yields intriguing findings. After Israel’s surprise attack against Iran on June 13, Iranian oil firms rushed to export as much oil as possible—lifting the country’s output to ...
A decade ago, Russia seemed to be having its moment in the Middle East. But from today’s perspective, that moment appears distinctly momentary. To the surprise of many, Moscow did ...
