Foreign Policy

The United Kingdom will leave the European Union with little fanfare at midnight Brussels time today.

Boris Johnson breaks with Trump, opening Britain’s doors to a Chinese telecommunications giant that Washington fears is an espionage threat.

Sensitive U.S. technology feared vulnerable to Iranian-backed militias after contractors evacuate Balad air base.

The United States needs better insurance against attacks—whether by Mother Nature or human actors.

In trying to bring Belarus and Russia together, Lukashenko may have awakened his country’s citizens to how independent they really want to be.

U.S. officials who praise Iraqi Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani while denouncing Iran’s supreme leader fail to grasp that the two clerical leaders have a shared interest in resisting outside threats.

The potential troop cuts face scrutiny inside the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill.

The basketball legend’s death was bigger than virus news in a country that loved him.

Against the backdrop of U.S. domestic drama, the secretary of state’s visit to Kyiv could prove tricky.

Chinese officials have extended the Lunar New Year holiday and started building emergency hospitals to combat the new coronavirus. Will it work?

The most effective plan against the Islamic Republic has always been the most obvious—and the one nobody in Washington seems willing to try.

A raft of new multibillion-dollar deals announced by Xi Jinping worry Washington and New Delhi.

There’s a limit to what any one company can do when it operates within a system in which oil, gas, and even coal use are still rising.

The new materials reveal how Beijing’s internment of Uighur Muslims actually works—and who is complicit.

Right-wing media has seized on the testimony of a Canadian businessman with a tangled history.

New arrivals are ticking up again, but Europe doesn’t even have a short-term plan in place—much less a long-term strategy.

Georgians fear that billionaire leader Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party are tightening their grip on power.

Resistance to Chinese technology is growing in Germany—and the ripple effects could reach across the continent.

As Hezbollah sides with Lebanon's political elite, protesters in Beirut are increasingly willing to criticize it.

Claims of political contagion are establishment fantasies.