America’s man in Afghanistan reflects on Trump’s ill-fated peace deal, the pullout, and how everything went wrong.

Twenty years after 9/11, U.S. policy in the Middle East is still based on a fundamental mistake.

Stefano Pontecorvo coordinated the evacuation of 124,000 people before saying goodbye to the city himself.

The long-range weapon could strike South Korea, Japan, and U.S. bases in the region.

A nationally televised debate mostly highlighted the weaknesses of the leading contenders to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Iran cheered the U.S. withdrawal but is nervously hedging its bets with the Taliban.

Russia has been wargaming with Belarus. Sometimes, that’s a prelude.

Beijing has used the “war on terror” to target its own minorities like Uyghurs.

A supposedly Orwellian system is fragmented, localized, and mostly targeted at businesses.

For years, London convinced itself it was Washington’s close partner. That’s now impossible to believe.

Closing Guantánamo Bay isn’t enough.

Lisbon’s macroeconomic model could show other small countries the path to recovery.

Zaki Anwari represented what a free Afghanistan could achieve. His gruesome death is a vivid reminder of the human toll of U.S. abandonment.

A thoughtless, unscientific policy of closed borders—even to vaccinated travelers—does a little more damage every day.

One of the regions hardest hit by climate change is also one least equipped to deal with it.

A few weeks after militants took over Kabul and the country, Afghanistan has gone back to a past it didn’t miss.