The consensus among analysts is that Hamas is down, but hardly out. The group may be badly battered, but it has been around since 1987, and in that time, it has been repeatedly attacked by Israel and ...

When the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda met in Washington, D.C., in early December 2025, for a ceremony sealing the peace deal that ended four years of fighting, it was ...

Imagine two Middle Eastern countries. The first is very unlike the rest of the region. It is economically highly productive, with a GDP per capita of $80,000—the highest in the Middle East. It has ...

In this perspective, it is nothing like the feared Axis powers during World War II because it lacks any formal commitments or aggressive public rhetoric. The U.S. intelligence community even makes a ...

And as global temperatures continue to climb, its role will become harder to ignore—because the two countries, the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide, both face great risks from ...

Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that Europe has become the president’s favorite punching bag. The continent is, his administration believes, militarily emaciated, economically irrelevant, ...

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Beijing’s self-inflicted identity crisis.

Europe simultaneously faces an acute danger from within. Economic insecurity and immigration are fueling a populist nationalism that could debilitate, if not dismantle, the project of European ...

In 2011, the United States conducted the first drone strike on the continent, targeting senior leaders of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab. At the time, Washington held a near monopoly in drone ...

For decades, American allies in Asia and Europe have relied on U.S. extended nuclear deterrence for their safety. They forswore acquiring their own nuclear weapons, agreeing instead to live under the ...

Early last summer, buried deep in an obscure budget document, the Trump administration effectively pronounced dead the primary government program for workers who lose their jobs because of trade. The ...