Leaders

Pulling out all U.S. troops is the administration’s risky plan to pressure Kabul and the Taliban to make peace.

With troops to depart on Sept. 11, the next five months are critical for any chance of peace.

Japan’s prime minister visits Washington at a time when, thanks to Chinese aggressiveness, U.S.-Japan relations are critical.

What the new president really thinks about the military—and what the military really thinks about him.

Rather than taking Obama-era policies as a baseline, Biden needs to start from scratch.

The U.N. dials up the pressure campaign against Myanmar’s putschists.

Only three top State Department officials have been allowed to travel abroad. That’s no way to preserve U.S. interests.

Human rights advocates say the move is long overdue.

Four steps Washington can take to facilitate a lasting end to the conflict.

Don’t listen to the activists. Millions of Indian farmers will benefit from Modi’s new laws.

His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.

The United States needs a game plan for a continent that’s home to two-thirds of the world’s population and its biggest rival.

Biden’s push for gender equality is a huge change from Trump, but experts stop short of calling it a feminist foreign policy.

Confrontation may be popular at home, but it won’t make the United States more prosperous or secure.

After Trump’s insults and detachment, the Biden administration is crafting a new, more engaged approach to the continent.

Why India’s Narendra Modi keeps getting away with failure.

The president’s approach to the migrant crisis increasingly looks like the EU’s failed policies.

Dealing with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador could be the biggest thing the U.S. president does this year.

The 2011 Libyan intervention pitched the region into a decade of chaos and undermined U.S. confidence in the wisdom of using military force to save lives.