Tag: War

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, then-Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned that the war and its outcome would be a harbinger of Asia’s future. His message was ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Fighting ramps up in eastern Congo as peace talks fall through, Mali’s junta arrests generals and a French national over ...

Eighty years ago in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, more than 200,000 people were killed in ways that nearly defy imagination: incinerated, burned alive, boiled in rivers, or ...

If nothing else, Donald Trump doesn’t shy away from high stakes meetings. Always supremely confident in his own abilities to bend others to his will, the U.S. president spent the ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the terms of the latest Gaza cease-fire proposal, a flurry of European diplomacy for Ukraine, and Spain’s efforts to combat raging ...

The initial meetings are over. Now the meetings about the meetings have begun.  Nearly three dozen leaders met virtually on Tuesday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a delegation ...

Remember when U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Russia would face “severe consequences” if it didn’t agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine? When he threatened to impose draconian sanctions if ...

After a strange, made-for-television summit in Washington on Monday meant to bring Russia’s escalating war on Ukraine closer to the conclusion that U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to achieve even ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated goal in meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska was to secure a Russia-Ukraine cease-fire. Putin stiffed him on a cease-fire and got him to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is coming back to the White House, and this time, he has a phalanx of European leaders backing him up.  Finnish President Alexander Stubb, European Commission ...