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Mar 13, 2026
Degrading command and control over proxy groups could make them more dangerous and unpredictable.
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Mar 13, 2026
Bromides about the "center holding" miss the point.
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Mar 12, 2026
Will the campaign advance U.S. interests in the region or set them back?
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Mar 12, 2026
A breakdown of the tools Iran has to maintain pressure on Trump.
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Mar 12, 2026
Tehran escalates Gulf strikes and warns of future attacks on U.S. bases in the region.
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Mar 12, 2026
Ill-considered overreach in Iran and elsewhere signals imminent decline.
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Mar 12, 2026
Big reserve releases, promises of escorts, and insurance can't convince the market that the crisis will be over soon.
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Mar 12, 2026
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab' is an indictment of the international system that has failed Gaza.
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Mar 12, 2026
Washington has yet to recognize that mobility is an essential part of regional security.
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Mar 12, 2026
Conflict in Ukraine has shattered the myths sustaining the Western coalition.
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Mar 12, 2026
Forget the inflated comparisons. Neither the war in the Middle East nor the Russian invasion of Ukraine ever signaled a global conflagration.
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Mar 11, 2026
IEA member states will distribute 400 million barrels of oil to ease the Iran war-caused supply crunch.
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Mar 11, 2026
From Iran to Venezuela, Trump has fully embraced offensive cyberoperations.
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Mar 11, 2026
Pretoria's awkward dance between Washington and Tehran.
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Mar 11, 2026
A year before presidential elections, the National Rally has a chance of capturing Marseille, a historic hub of immigration.
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Mar 11, 2026
A better future for Palestine depends on psychological recovery.
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Mar 11, 2026
In choosing Khamenei's son, the regime has imposed exactly what many Iranians feared.
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Mar 11, 2026
The rational calculus, for the moment, is that death to America can wait.
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Mar 10, 2026
Exaggerate the threat and underestimate the consequences.
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Mar 10, 2026
An emergency military spending request to continue the Iran strikes may soon be sent to U.S lawmakers.
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Mar 10, 2026
Trump has warned that doing so will only escalate the U.S. military's war effort.
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Mar 10, 2026
Around 250 State Department employees could assist with efforts.
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Mar 10, 2026
Diplomatic messaging suggests Beijing's potential for mediation in the war.
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Mar 10, 2026
Beijing is as concerned about Gulf partners as Tehran.
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Mar 10, 2026
After threatening war for decades, the Israeli leader saw his window of opportunity closing.
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Mar 10, 2026
Donald Trump may need Xi Jinping's help to stop conflict from spreading.
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Mar 10, 2026
Irregular migration needs a compassionate and careful approach.
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Mar 10, 2026
The Shield of the Americas summit marked a turning point in Western Hemisphere diplomacy.
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Mar 10, 2026
A property developer who sought to remake skylines in his image is now doing the same to the global order.
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Mar 10, 2026
Kaliningrad was a strategic beachhead, but it is now a major vulnerability.
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Mar 10, 2026
A manufactured crisis could lead to state collapse, with lasting consequences for the United States.
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Mar 10, 2026
Spiraling natural gas prices leave both countries exposed.
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Mar 10, 2026
Wars of this kind aren'tnecessarily won by the side that's more powerful.
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Mar 09, 2026
Cutting off the Persian Gulf is hitting the global economy hard.
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Mar 09, 2026
Strikes on oil infrastructure and a near-standstill in the Strait of Hormuz are taking a toll.
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Mar 09, 2026
A country-by-country breakdown on how the war has spread.
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Mar 09, 2026
The country is asking whether it's time to try disarming Hezbollah for good—and risk the consequences.
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Mar 09, 2026
The country is asking whether it's time to try disarming Hezbollah for good—and risk the consequences.
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Mar 09, 2026
But a long campaign would be hard to sustain.
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Mar 09, 2026
Striking desalination plants risks a spiral of deadly retaliation.
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Mar 09, 2026
Releasing strategic reserves would be a fillip, but opening the Strait of Hormuz is the key to lower prices.
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Mar 09, 2026
By waging war in the Middle East, Trump is set to further strain one of his key voter bases.
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Mar 09, 2026
Elevating Erdogan into an existential threat is dangerous and self-defeating for Israel.
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Mar 09, 2026
Decades of disarmament have come to a head under the Starmer government.
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Mar 09, 2026
The new chapter in defense planning seems like a direct response to Trump's Golden Dome.
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Mar 09, 2026
Fallout from the U.S.-Israeli attack reveals the weakness of Egypt's dictator.
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Mar 09, 2026
The Iran strikes will convince Beijing to double down on military growth.
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Mar 09, 2026
Even superpowers will find it is impossible to own the entire supply chain.
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Mar 09, 2026
As Russian strikes batter the grid, a corruption scandal deepens Ukraine's winter crisis.
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Mar 09, 2026
‘The Best and the Brightest' chronicles the mistakes presidents make when sending Americans to war.
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Mar 08, 2026
What Mojtaba Khamenei's appointment means for Iran's future.
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Mar 06, 2026
Amid global oil and gas disruptions, China stands prepared for the electrostate era.
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Mar 06, 2026
The White House wants to help choose Tehran's new leadership—and won't settle for anything less.
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Mar 06, 2026
As Washington abandons any pretense of a just global order, citizens around the world will continue to demand one.
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Mar 06, 2026
Why have defenders of national identity and sovereignty not embraced Kyiv's cause?
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Mar 06, 2026
Retracing the road to Brexit, a new book reveals the deep roots of British Euroskepticism.
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Mar 06, 2026
This week, Lebanon's longest-serving politician started hedging on Hezbollah.
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Mar 06, 2026
A poll of IR scholars reveals strong opposition to the conflict and fears about its risks.
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Mar 06, 2026
A CIA veteran depicts Moscow's espionage arsenal. What is the West going to do about it?
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Mar 06, 2026
Closing the Strait of Hormuz is a nightmare for global energy markets.
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Mar 06, 2026
It's a convenient argument that echoes an antisemitic trope.
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Mar 06, 2026
Ali Larijani has a pragmatic temperament—but a worldview shaped by the system he now leads.
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Mar 06, 2026
Beijing doesn't want to imitate the United States' alliance obligations.
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Mar 06, 2026
The outgoing president created a new blueprint for the Latin American left.
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Mar 06, 2026
Germany's chancellor is dragging his country into a new era. Will Germans go along?
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Mar 05, 2026
Trump's goals in Iran are expansive, shifting, and potentially impossible.
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Mar 05, 2026
Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh are weighing their options.
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Mar 05, 2026
From Azerbaijan to the Indian Ocean, the conflict's impact is spreading.
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Mar 05, 2026
The Middle Eastern conflict could drain Ukraine's supply of key defensive munitions and push U.S. President Donald Trump to quickly reach a deal with Russia.
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Mar 05, 2026
The U.S. war on Iran will weaken Islamist groups and embolden the Israeli right.
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Mar 05, 2026
Only by working together can Kurdish groups and the Iranian opposition forge a better future.
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Mar 05, 2026
Iran's attacks on its neighbors are a reminder that the United States cannot protect them.
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Mar 05, 2026
Americans across the political spectrum need to stop talking about Tehran in cliches.
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Mar 05, 2026
The Middle East conflict shows Washington hasn't yet learned enough about cheap drones from Kyiv.
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Mar 05, 2026
Each day of war that passes adds to the physical risks to global oil and gas, but so far markets have basically shrugged.
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Mar 05, 2026
Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains.
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Mar 05, 2026
Reads that shed light on the origins of today's conflict—and Tehran's possible future.
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Mar 05, 2026
Beijing won't risk its broader Middle East interests to save the Islamic Republic.
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Mar 05, 2026
Hungary's populist prime minister is in a fight for his political life—and acting like it.
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Mar 04, 2026
The House is expected to hold a similar Iran war powers vote tomorrow.
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Mar 04, 2026
The continent is bracing for the ripple effects of a wide-ranging regional conflict.
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Mar 04, 2026
The war continues to reverberate across the region, from the Gulf to Turkey.
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Mar 04, 2026
Ahead of elections, calls to reinstate the king and bring an end to secularism have grown louder.
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Mar 04, 2026
The T20 World Cup has underscored that New Delhi is a schoolyard bully.
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Mar 04, 2026
Iran's survival strategy includes inflicting pain on its neighbors.
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Mar 04, 2026
The $8 trillion air freight industry faces huge challenges due to the war in the Middle East.
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Mar 04, 2026
A would-be Kremlin partner helping kill a Kremlin ally feeds the Russian leader's paranoia.
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Mar 04, 2026
The fallout from conflict in the Gulf will be much bigger than just oil.
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Mar 03, 2026
Democrats describe the assault as illegal and contrary to U.S. interests.
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Mar 03, 2026
The U.S. president and his officials can't get their story straight.
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Mar 03, 2026
Beijing is an unentangled superpower—but one with key interests at stake.
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Mar 03, 2026
Most U.S. citizens were not warned to leave the region before the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran.
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Mar 03, 2026
As chaos spreads from Iran, global shipping is buckling under the strain.
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Mar 03, 2026
Inexperienced and overextended, Trump's envoys have failed on three fronts.
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Mar 03, 2026
In response to Trump's strikes, European leaders have created an alternate reality to escape their hypocrisy.
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Mar 03, 2026
The war on Iran sounds the death knell for the old-school idea of "you break it, you own it."
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Mar 03, 2026
Mark Carney's tour of the Indo-Pacific this week is a rousing show of defiance, but it may have unintended effects.
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Mar 03, 2026
Indonesia's president offers to facilitate negotiations after U.S. and Israeli strikes.
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Mar 02, 2026
The White House is discovering that Iran and Israel have a higher tolerance for pain, according to Mideast expert Vali Nasr.
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Mar 02, 2026
All three countries are preparing to potentially wage weeks of conflict—or more.
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