Tag: War

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at new Israeli operations in central Gaza, an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, and an economic debate ahead of Britain’s ...

A top U.S. official in Africa is cautioning that Sudan’s civil war could spiral into a full-blown regional conflict or a failed state absent a lasting peace deal and path ...

“If you were Masalit, we decided that we don’t want to leave any alive, not even the children.” This explicit warning, recounted by a survivor to Human Rights Watch, by ...

“The Hague’s Hypocrisy,” roared the headline in one of Israel’s mass-circulation dailies. “The Hague’s Disgrace,” blared the competing paper. Outrage was the most obvious public response in Israel when the ...

When we arrived at the gates of Iraq’s Bardarash refugee camp in December 2019, the emotional pain of the scene leveled me: Cold, wind-swept rain fell as a gaggle of ...

As the Russian military’s slow advances in Ukraine continue, calls for talks to end the war have become common—some made by well-regarded foreign-policy specialists. Their ideas are neither prudent nor ...

Let’s get this out of the way first: The title of this book—The Achilles Trap—doesn’t make much sense. The subtitle—Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of ...

U.S. President Joe Biden laid out a new Israeli proposal for a hostage and cease-fire agreement with Hamas on Friday, describing it as a “road map” to an “enduring cease-fire” ...

Matt Kroenig: Hi, Emma. Last weekend was Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer. I assume you are spending your days sunning by the pool? Emma Ashford: Oh, if ...

Russia is up to so much mischief around the Baltic Sea that even the things that it ends up not doing cause Western alarm bells to ring. In just the ...