List of War articles
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Trump and Putin Trump’s Ukraine Shift Sends the Right Signal to Putin
But there won’t be peace without additional pressure on the Kremlin.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers an end-of-year press conference in Kyiv on December 19, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Democracy Has Stalled
With the United States ceasing to care, Ukraine’s domestic reforms are falling flat.
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on July 14. There’s Less to Trump’s Ukraine Shift Than Meets the Eye
Europe will buy unspecified weapons for Ukraine, and Russia gets a long reprieve from sanctions.
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The wrecked bodies of cars are strewn about a bridge beneath a hazy blue sky, some on the cracked road, others leaning on the barrier fence. Sheets of metal cover large potholes on the road. Washington Can Keep Sudan’s Civil War From Getting Worse
A concerted diplomatic push is needed to allay a deepening humanitarian catastrophe.
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A man rides a horse next to the remains of an Iranian missile near the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the occupied West Bank, on June 29. Iran and the Logic of Limited Wars
No one wants a long war, and doing nothing was no longer an option.
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Police and demonstrators confront one another outside London's High Court on July 4. Britain’s Palestine Action Ban Is a Dangerous Overreach
Draconian steps used against activists risk weakening real anti-terrorism measures.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on as he meets with students at the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi, Russia, on May 19. Has Trump Finally Turned on Putin?
The U.S. president is showing fresh signs of exasperation with his Russian counterpart, but will it stick?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a dinner at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 7. Do Trump and Bibi Have a Longer-Term Middle East Strategy?
Tom Friedman on the region’s big shifts—and how the rest of the world sees it.
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Personal items are seen amid the destruction of a residential property in northern Tehran on June 29. Strikes on Iran Validate North Korea’s Nuclear Sprint
The United States and Israel are speeding up the collapse of nonproliferation.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (right) and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (left) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 27, after Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a peace agreement. Rwanda and Congo’s Unstable Peace
A recent U.S.-brokered agreement can only ensure stability if it does not reward Rwanda’s aggression.
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1-fiction-Books-in-brief-foreign-policy-July The Novels We’re Reading in July
From a Salvadoran multiverse to queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
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U.S. President Donald Trump announces U.S. strikes on Iran with Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth standing alongside, at the White House in Washington on June 21. An Emerging Trump Doctrine?
Success in the Middle East could be a template for a new approach to Russia’s war.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the CyberTech conference in Tel Aviv on Jan. 29, 2019. For Netanyahu, Another Term as Israel’s Leader?
He’s hoping the Iran war will erase the stain of Oct. 7.
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1-Russian-hackers-keir-giles-1a I Was Hacked Because I Work on Russia
But the same clever new attack could be used against almost anyone.
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Myanmar’s junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing, salutes at a ceremony to mark Armed Forces Day. Time and Beijing Are Working Against Myanmar’s Resistance
As fighting drags on, sieges and Chinese pressure may allow Myanmar’s military junta to consolidate its power.
