Foreign Policy

Battlefield experience shouldn’t trump the outsider benefits of civilian leadership.

Future conflicts will mostly be waged by drug cartels, mafia groups, gangs, and terrorists. It is time to rethink our rules of engagement.

His economic reforms have already put the Indian economy on stronger footing, and his welfare schemes have given him the buy-in he needs.

The French president is looking toward the future—but his country feels left behind.

Two U.S. special operations airmen recall the ordeal.

This weekend’s meeting of female foreign ministers will be a historic achievement—and not nearly enough for the world’s women.

But a feud between Russia and the U.S. has kept the document from being published.

Washington must not ignore atrocities against the country’s Anglophones. It should use existing U.S. laws to force an end to the violence.

The country may seem a haven for clean energy, but that’s because it exports its pollution.

In one gubernatorial race, a scandal might be a sign of Putin’s decline.

Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers.

It’s expensive to destroy a people without killing them, but Beijing is willing to pay the price.

With options limited for fighting terrorists, negotiations may be the best remaining alternative.

Ill-advised land swaps and population transfers won’t bring peace. They’re more likely to revive the bloodshed that plagued the Balkans during the 1990s.

The Kremlin is filling the vacuum created by the U.S. retreat from the Middle East—now, with a buffer zone in Idlib.

An open letter to Donald Trump's new North Korea envoy on how to avoid Armageddon.

Americans have forgotten that their long history of intervention in the Middle East started in Damascus. Now it might end there.

More pressure on Tehran won’t work. Here’s what Trump should really do.

Joint military exercises have kept the relationship strong despite Trump, but that could soon change.

World leaders have never really trusted each other—but the president's behavior undermines American foreign policy anyway.