Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at North Korea’s ballistic missile might, a slew of truce proposals for the Middle East, and Typhoon Kong-rey hitting Taiwan. A Show ...
KYIV—Days before a U.S presidential election with potentially colossal implications for Ukraine, the country’s leadership is focused on one thing: staying out of the race as much as possible. “Any ...
In May 2021, three months after Myanmar’s military took power in a coup, Rupa traveled around 300 miles from her home in the city of Pyin Oo Lwin to enlist ...
Strange things are happening in Russia these days. In early October, the country inked a deal to sell chickpeas to Pakistan in exchange for mandarin oranges. A few weeks later, ...
As Israel expands its military campaign in southern Lebanon amid escalating conflict in the Middle East, a Lebanese American community in a key swing state could leave its mark on ...
The feared Israel-Hezbollah war is happening, but it is remarkably one-sided so far. In September, Israel detonated thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies. It then commenced large-scale bombing of over ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at deadly Israeli operations in Lebanon, efforts to counter terror threats in Turkey and Sri Lanka, and a G-7 loan to Ukraine ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The leadership in North Korea and Myanmar rankles Chinese officials, Kazakhstan declines to join BRICS and sends a signal to Russia ...
The deployment of 10,000 or so North Korean troops to Russia marks a sharp escalation and internationalization of Europe’s biggest war in generations, with potential impacts on the battlefield, in ...
Transformations in life—and in politics—are very rare. And yet there’s a persistent and perhaps understandable temptation to turn breathless headlines into potentially transformative trend lines. There’s no better example than ...