Tag: War

Josep Borrell is in a reflective mood about Europe’s role in the world—a question whose answer he has spent the last four years shaping as the European Union’s foreign-policy chief. ...

After months of attrition warfare, Russia is once again on the march in Ukraine, this time targeting Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, which is just a stone’s throw from the ...

At the end of 2022, Dmitry Medvedev—Russia’s former prime minister and the current deputy chairman of its Security Council—offered his predictions for the coming year. He warned that Europeans would ...

On the morning of April 5, 2023, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met with then-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Simi Valley, California. This was a meeting Beijing had warned against ...

KYIV—More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the war, by some estimates. They leave behind possibly tens of ...

Senior members of the U.S. government are back to talking up a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During his State of the Union address in March, President Joe Biden ...

Just after Russia pushed further into Ukraine in February 2022, I met with a senior Singaporean diplomat. We were discussing other matters, but naturally, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine came ...

Emma Ashford: Hi, Matt, how is your week going? It’s the end of the semester, and I’m sure things on campus must be peaceful and tranquil as the students prepare ...

Many Western leaders press allies and partners not to hit back hard when their enemies attack. After the foiled Iranian attack on Israel last month, for example, U.S. President Joe ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at alleged Russian assassination attempts against key Ukrainian leaders, Israel’s military campaign in Rafah, and a new constitution for Togo. Welcome back ...