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Iran’s military announced it has closed the Strait of Hormuz just a day after the country declared the waterway open, claiming the U.S.... Read More

It looks like Iran’s rulers have finally blinked — but that doesn’t mean they won’t try to weasel out of every... Read More

Perhaps the most important consequence of the Iran War — other than degrading the military capabilities of the Iranian regime and... Read More

President Donald Trump has warned China not to supply Iran with new air defense systems. His admonition is... Read More

The Trump administration’s decision to carry out a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has raised tensions in the Persian... Read More

After the failure of negotiations in Pakistan, the United States announced the start of a blockade of Iranian oil. Iran threatened to keep... Read More

U.S. State Department officials met in Havana with Cuban apparatchiks —including the grandson of aging strongman Raul... Read More

Moscow’s Manezh exhibition hall is playing host to a celebration of the life and politics of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the outspoken,... Read More

Brussels should set clear conditions for Hungary’s European comeback—and use its moment of leverage to incentivise a geopolitical... Read More

Sunday’s elections in Hungary made headlines far beyond its borders, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s... Read More

All wartime restrictions lifted for Israeli public; 10-day ceasefire appears to hold even as Lebanese media report Israeli strike on... Read More

I am a proud Jewish American. My father fled Poland in 1921 to escape poverty and antisemitism. Those in his family who stayed were murdered... Read More

Over the 250 years of its independence, America’s place in the world has changed dramatically. Having begun in the last... Read More

China’s new 15th Five-Year Plan is a high-level framework offering something for every policy field – and it triggers a... Read More

The outbreak of the conflict in Iran in March 2026 transformed Azerbaijan’s southern border into an active crisis-management zone,... Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

If you read the New York Times or watch the foreign policy establishment’s “best and brightest,” you will be... Read More

It is, at once, a time of great hope and great despair for anyone who wants U.S.-Iranian relations to improve.  Read More

After watching the latest rounds of right-wing podcasters intoning that somehow Trump is demon-possessed or out of his mind or... Read More

The American industrial base, like the budget, is finite, and arms sent and used in one region cannot be used to project power in another.... Read More

An intensifying U.S. naval blockade of Iran is aimed at inflicting such severe economic pain that Tehran will be compelled to quickly submit... Read More

The bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings that have defined much of Trump’s second term make more sense understood together,... Read More

Iran can’t have a nuclear bomb, says Donald Trump, so it can’t be allowed to enrich uranium, not now, not ever. Accordingly,... Read More

Pakistan has emerged as the unlikely facilitator of US-Iran peace negotiations, and with the prospect of additional talks looming, the man at... Read More

Last November, millions of Iraqis cast their ballots in a free election, and my coalition won the highest number of votes of any list. That... Read More

South Korea’s defense industrial cooperation with Romania is more strategically important than it is often assumed. It is frequently... Read More

At 9.29 pm on Sunday, just moments after Viktor Orbán took to the stage to concede the Hungarian election, European Commission... Read More

Deep in the polling doldrums, Scottish Labour has a plot to sneak into power regardless.  Read More

The effort to ‘AfD-proof’ Saxony-Anhalt is only the latest in a series of measures taken over recent months and years to weaken... Read More

Alberta’s independence movement is more committed at its core than Quebec’s. Recent polling confirms this, yet many still do not... Read More

Many of them use their access to Washington to work for authoritarian states that want to influence our foreign policy Read More

US President Donald Trump pressured Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon after Lebanon’s president clarified to US... Read More

It has been nearly 80 years since the guns fell silent in World War II. In that long arc of peace, the United States helped rebuild a... Read More

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán was the first populist of the 21st century. The problems his country faced, he said, were immigration... Read More

Viktor Orbán, who has governed Hungary for the past 16 years, turning the small Central European country into an international model... Read More

Spain’s latest assisted suicide should sober the ardor of ‘right-to-die’ advocates everywhere.     Read More