France

France is going to have a harder time selling “strategic autonomy” without the foil of the Trump administration to drive it.

The French Senegalese writer David Diop revises the modernist archetype with a protagonist long excluded from World War I literature: the African soldier on the front lines.

The real grievances behind the Ethiopian conflict, Pompeo acknowledges that the two-state solution is dead, and a look at a possible Pentagon pick.

A race-based colonial mindset that views the continent as Europe’s playground and dismisses the concerns of Africans continues to fuel death and destruction.

By championing freedom from religion while trampling freedom of religion, Macron is discrediting the Enlightenment in the eyes of Muslims—and strengthening the Islamists he vows to defeat.

European leaders misjudged World War I. America shouldn’t repeat their mistake.

Sebastian Kurz’s government failed to stop a recent terrorist attack, but he has been saying—and doing—what Emmanuel Macron is proposing for years.

Major world leaders are reaching out to the U.S. president-elect as Pompeo claims there will be a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”

Preoccupied with domestic challenges and an impending contest with a populist rival, France’s government will benefit from the defeat of the far-right across the Atlantic.

An indigenous form of Islam developed within the West—rather than influenced by leaders from abroad—is the path to integration and peaceful coexistence.

Trump’s insults and ideological closeness to Marine Le Pen have left a bitter taste.

Liberal critics of Emmanuel Macron’s campaign against radicalism misunderstand the crisis his country faces.

The French president’s talk of a crisis among French Muslims is the latest example of mainstream politicians pandering to the far-right.  

The French president is planning to curb the influence of extremist clerics—but his critics see something more sinister.

Formerly competitors, Paris and Rome’s Pax Mediterranea may spell Ankara’s final estrangement from Europe.

The French president is making a bid to shape the region—but does his reach exceed his grasp?

France’s unilateralism and the United States’ wavering are destabilizing the Sahel—and creating an opening for Russia and China.