John Haltiwanger is a reporter at Foreign Policy covering U.S. national security, the Middle East, and more. Prior to joining FP, John covered U.S. politics and foreign affairs for GZERO Media, Business Insider, and Newsweek. John has reported from Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He has a master’s in international relations from the University of Glasgow.
From left to right: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pose for a group picture during a meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on July 1.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (left), accompanied by Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on June 26.
Clockwise from bottom right: U.S. President Donald Trump, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gather for a family photo before a NATO summit plenary session in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte looks on during a joint statement with Japan’s foreign minister on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague on June 24.
Mark Rutte stands in front of a microphone and gestures with one hand as he grips the podium with the other. Rutte is a man in his 50s wearing wire-frame glasses and a dark suit.
Displaced Palestinians walk along a road to receive humanitarian aid packages from a U.S.-backed foundation in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 5.