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The Kurds have no choice but to always trust the United States—and to suffer the inevitable consequences.

His administration’s decisions will be erratic, ill-considered, and ineffective. In other words, business as usual.

A major new report about the Syrian war raises the question of whether Washington ever cared about it in the first place.

The U.S. president needs the public’s trust to conduct foreign policy. Donald Trump has forfeited it.

Getting a new nuclear deal with Iran won’t be easy—but the U.S. president’s utter lack of principle could help guide the way.

But nobody is interested in doing anything about it.

If the United States is done fighting for Saudi Arabia’s oil, it's done fighting for the entire region.

After 18 years of war, thousands of lives lost, and hundreds of billions of dollars squandered, the United States accomplished precisely nothing.

The competition between the United States and China will decide the continent’s fate—and one of them has a head start.

The United States came up with “maximum pressure”—but the Israeli government is the only one carrying it out.

In times of crisis, political legitimacy inevitably depends on practical power.

Donald Trump claims to have defeated the Islamic State—but the group was designed to prove him wrong.

The Arctic island offers a harrowing reminder of the environmental damage, and political dangers, already imposed by climate change.

The immigration issue is there for the taking for Democrats—if they don’t treat it as a culture war.

American elites used to see war as a tragic necessity. Now they’re completely addicted to it.

As U.S. policymakers worry about their special relationship with Ankara, Turkey’s president knows it's already dead.

Russia’s catastrophic test of a nuclear-powered missile proves that a new global arms race will mean new nuclear accidents.

It's only a matter of time until major powers try to stop climate change by any means necessary.

The Trump administration’s nonresponse to Iranian aggression has sent an unmistakable message.

The Trump administration has been ignoring the playbook that produced the downfall of the Soviet Union.

In Congo, thousands of people have died due to a misguided finance-driven approach to fighting pandemics that puts investors before victims.