Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East. He later ...

The United States carried out the Potsdam Declaration’s threat of “prompt and utter destruction” on August 6 when a B-29 ...

An unprecedented surge of migrants into Spanish territory in North Africa marked the first test of the European Union’s new ...

CFR President Michael Froman and CFR Senior Fellow Chris McGuire discuss recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

A weak renminbi directly led to China’s latest export boom, and a stronger renminbi is the only realistic cure.

Japan intervention to prop up the yen has as much to do with protecting U.S. Treasury markets as with helping an ally manage ...

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to stir debate today.

Congress endorsed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to confront North Vietnam without investigating whether the ...

Before the United States entered World War I, U.S. officials mistook German sabotage for an industrial accident.

At the July meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers, most of whom were already furious at ...

Trump’s desire to end the confrontation with Iran quickly, so oil flows and prices drop, has left him with no real bargaining position. That has emboldened Iran to demand a deal that would let it ...