The aftershocks of U.S. President Donald Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds in Syria are rumbling through the region, and a string of Lebanese officials told me...
At a gathering last Saturday night of military and intelligence veterans, one topic shrouded the room: President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish...
Last week’s news that President Donald Trump is considering abandoning the Open Skies Treaty probably brought a yawn from most observers. Arms-control...
By acquiescing to Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria Wednesday, President Donald Trump has opened the door to what could become a genuine nightmare for...
The commander of Syrian Kurdish forces didn’t use the word “betrayal.” But with U.S. troops withdrawing from the Turkish-Syrian border and Turkish troops...
After Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s angry refusal Tuesday to allow State Department officials to testify before a House of Representatives committee about...
If you’re wondering why it matters that President Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine while he was requesting political favors from its new...
It’s a good rule never to start a fight you’re not eager to finish. But the Trump administration and its Arab allies now seem caught in a version of that...
As tens of thousands of protesters marched down Hennessy Road toward government headquarters Sunday afternoon, chanting pro-democracy slogans and waving...
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will retire this month, is that rare senior official in President Donald Trump’s Washington...
Six weeks ago, Turkey was threatening to invade the Kurdish region of northeast Syria. Last Sunday, U.S. and Turkish troops instead conducted their first...
Every president since Jimmy Carter has dreamed of signing a peace agreement at Camp David. That’s a forgivable vanity, even for our current...
As we move into the fall, there’s one overriding foreign-policy priority for America: Find a strategy to deal with a rising China that protects U.S. interests...
Richard Stengel, a former Time editor who became the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, writes that he was once an information...
You could say many things to describe a week in which President Trump got in a snit about buying Greenland, called the Federal Reserve chairman an “enemy,”...
As the G-7 gathered last weekend in Biarritz, President Trump has expressed hope for the return of Russia, the missing guest at the table. But any...
“Evolve or die,” wrote hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio in a manifesto published in April titled “Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed.” With each...
Watching videos of Chinese protesters singing the U.S. national anthem in the streets of Hong Kong, or hearing the tear-jerking chorus of “Les Miserables”...
One of the weirdest aspects of this year’s Democratic presidential campaign is that foreign policy, potentially one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s most...
The Pentagon is buzzing about a potentially revolutionary order by the new Marine Corps commandant that bluntly answers the essential question for would-be...
Where is the United States heading in its confrontation with China, which moved this week from a trade dispute to a currency battle - with more dangerous...
Last week’s Democratic presidential debates included little substantive discussion of foreign policy - even about an imminent troop-withdrawal agreement for...
Among intelligence professionals, President Trump’s nomination of an inexperienced, partisan politician to oversee America’s spy agencies prompted deep dismay...
In the direct and disciplined voice of Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Kurdish militia, you can hear the determination that has made the Kurds...
Ronald Dowdell was on the starboard side of the bridge, looking toward Iran, as his vessel passed through the Strait of Hormuz on July 18. He’d been monitored...