From COVID-19 to climate, the U.S. president will focus his first General Assembly speech on the world body’s indispensability.

They share economic and geopolitical interests in Afghanistan, but counterterrorism could be a wrench.

Turkish airstrikes in Syria have escalated over the last month as the world concentrates on a different crisis.

The system doesn’t work, the currency crashed, and the public hates it.

Afghanistan’s new rulers have shown themselves to be skilled—and ruthless—diplomats.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is a staunch backer of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.”

Probably not. But after a year of stalemate, even old faces are better than none.

Social scientists helped win World War II by judging enemy morale. But in Afghanistan, the U.S. kept getting it wrong.

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

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

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

Authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Minsk are aiding Iraqis and Afghans in order to sow chaos and domestic discord in Eastern European countries.

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.