On the podcast: Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trump’s hawkish national security advisor may be losing credibility fast as the president pushes diplomacy, observers say.

With the State Department imposing new travel restrictions on Iranian diplomats, New York City influencers trek across town to see Tehran’s foreign minister.

With the cancellation of F-35 sales to Turkey, relations between Washington and Ankara have reached a new low. Here are our top reads on how things got so bad—and what comes next.

Plus: The U.S. downs a drone in the Persian Gulf, more Brexit drama in the British Parliament, and the other stories we’re following today.

Mass mobilization might be the best line of defense in a world of online warfare.

Israel’s prime minister has now served in the role for as long as the country’s founding father. Voters support him because they’re convinced he keeps them safe and reduces their international isolation.

In recent years, the country has managed to avoid jihadi violence. But not everyone will want to copy its methods.

The volatile Philippine leader is trying to fend off accusations of being soft on Beijing.

The Air Force wants a key regional ally to get new F-16 fighter jets to deter threats from Caracas.

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid speaks on how to stand up against the far-right.

The United States should stop treating the region as secondary to the rest of the Middle East.

Modern riot control tactics were born in the city’s 1960s riots. Now they’re back with a vengeance.

Eager to project its power in the Indo-Pacific, the country has doubled down on Japan and India.

Ankara may buy Moscow’s most advanced Su-57 after its expulsion from the F-35 program.

Plus: A tight vote expected in Britain’s House of Commons, ethnonationalists declare a new region in Ethiopia, and the other stories we’re following today.

Cool heads are needed in both Beijing and Washington.

Long deemed strategically irrelevant by the United States, the EU is poised to become a major geopolitical power. Washington should take note.

A new book looks at why the U.S. military keeps trapping itself in endless conflicts.

Almost four decades after the first U.S.-Pakistani mission in Afghanistan, Islamabad risks getting caught in the crosshairs of great-power politics again. Only deft diplomacy will save it.