Despite significant progress, Iraq still has a long way to go to meet the Trump administration’s expectations for reining in ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the economy. The challenge is ensuring the wealth it creates is broadly owned rather ...

China is strengthening intellectual property protections as a tool of state power, while weakening US leadership threatens innovation, competitiveness, and the future of global technology governance.

On Thursday alone, the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces, Kyiv’s centralized drone command, struck 14 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov. Most of the targets were gasoline tankers heading to Crimea.

Turkey is edging toward transferring its two S-400 systems to an unspecified third party, though it is not yet clear who. NATO member Turkey is finally readying to resolve the issue that led to its ...

Unsurprisingly, the United States and China have the world’s two strongest navies—but several far smaller nations punch well above their weight. Nearly every great power in world history has tried to ...

China is on track to build as many as 400 J-20 fighter jets per year by 2027—double Lockheed Martin’s current output of the F-35. As of July 2026, Lockheed Martin has built more than 1,300 F-35 ...

Egypt presents a compelling case study of the efficacy of private-sector-led investment in a difficult region. As the ceasefire with Iran collapses, one thing is clear—America needs a new playbook for ...

Europe’s rising defense budgets won’t be enough to sustain NATO unless the continent streamlines its fragmented defense ...

This debate examines whether OPEC still shapes global oil markets or whether shifting geopolitics and production trends have overtaken its influence.

McConnell serves as the head of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and while he is out, the committee’s work reviewing the Trump administration’s mammoth defense bill has stalled.

Kazakhstan has answered with a deliberate strategy rather than a sequence of gestures. We call it pragmatic engagement without official recognition. Astana removed the Taliban from its list of banned ...