From restoring torture to expanding surveillance, the president-elect’s cabinet picks favor a no-holds-barred approach to Islamist extremists at home and abroad.
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One of the mysteries about the ongoing offensive in Mosul, where Iraqi security forces are now pressing into the northern, eastern, and southern edges of ...
Sessions for Attorney General. The New York Times reported Friday that President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sen. Jeff Sessions, a conservative Alabama lawmaker and early Trump ...
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By Emily Whalen Best Defense guest columnist Ideally, President-elect Donald Trump’s national security and foreign-policy team will spend the next eight weeks reading briefing books ...
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office over the coming months, one of the thorniest foreign policy questions he will have to address is ...
In recent months, Foreign Policy has featured a fascinating exchange over the legacy of President George W. Bush. The debate began with the publication this year of ...
America loves a reset. In 2007, there was the “strategic reset” for “reclaiming control of U.S. security in the Middle East” proposed by the Center ...
It took some digging, but there’s finally good news coming out of Iraq. Archaeologists announced this week that they discovered the remains of a Bronze ...
During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump often dismissed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement signed between the United States ...
America has never known so little about a president-elect. After Trump ran a campaign almost completely void of substance, speculation about his positions regarding key ...
Negotiators from nearly 200 countries around the world are meeting in Morocco this week to hash out the details of the landmark climate-change agreement struck ...
“President-elect Trump is a true friend of the state of Israel.” So said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, hours after Donald Trump was ...
Election reax. With Donald Trump’s shocking upset electoral victory against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama will likely get to work to ...
Hillary Clinton appeared poised to win the presidency on Tuesday after a bitterly divisive campaign in which she vowed to take a tougher stand against ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Donald Trump, is without a doubt, the first American presidential candidate to be quoted approvingly by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the ...
While all eyes are on the U.S. presidential race, Washington’s foreign-policy machine is grappling with a "day-after" humanitarian crisis in a northern Iraqi city poised ...
NAIROBI — A firebrand populist positions himself as the savior of a marginalized segment of the electorate. He whips his supporters into a frenzy, implying ...
The detention of 11 members of parliament from an opposition political party last week marked the latest step in Turkey’s transformation into a de facto ...
The battle for Raqqa. Despite months of tension between Turkey and Kurdish rebels in northern Syria, the Kurd-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces have finally kicked ...
Political drama isn’t a U.S. monopoly these days. In South Africa, a scandal involving the government and a powerful business family could usher in the ...
As the Mosul operation approached, the Iraqi security forces were concerned not only with the Islamic State fighters they would face on the battlefield, but ...
In his masterful account Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman defines strategy as “the art of creating power.” This is a useful lens through which ...
Barack Obama's presidency sent Washington’s foreign-policy hawks, or “the Blob,” as White House aide Ben Rhodes once disparagingly called them, into the wilderness. But the ...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday fired his top peacekeeping commander in South Sudan, following the release of a damning internal investigation that faulted the ...
In the midst of an outbreak of fresh violence in the Central African Republic, France declared its peacekeeping mission a “success” and said its troops ...
“Kullun haramiyyeh” -- “they’re all thieves” -- is the most common sentiment about Lebanon’s politics on the streets of Beirut. You’ll hear it from ...
HAMDANIYA, Iraq — Christians are finally returning to the Church of the Immaculate Conception. In the courtyard, they find piles of shell casings and mannequin torsos ...
In April, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands ceremonially opened the International Criminal Court’s new headquarters, nestled on the outskirts of The Hague near the North ...
The nation of Gambia is the smallest on Africa’s mainland, ruled by dictator Yahya Jammeh, who has held power since he overthrew the prior government ...
Outclassed adversaries have a pesky habit of refusing to admit they’re outclassed. To wit: Early this month, U.S. Navy destroyers cruising off the Yemeni coast ...
Earlier this year, it briefly seemed that a renewed crackdown on human smuggling operations in the Mediterranean would save the lives of asylum-seekers braving the ...
NAIROBI -- If elections were held today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, exiled former Gov. Moise Katumbi would trounce incumbent President Joseph Kabila ...
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