As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen: It also directs the US Agency for International...

The Biden administration is getting something right on foreign policy at the very end: Less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, nearly four years to the day from when President...

Richard Nephew thinks that the case against attacking Iran isn’t as strong as it used to be: But today, the case against military action is not so neat. If anything, the case against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities is stronger than it has ever been. It is because...

Trump threatened to steal another country’s land again: Trump reiterated his intentions to take back the Panama Canal, after threatening he would in a Truth Social post on Saturday. Trump said that the United States is being “ripped off” at the Panama Canal and has...

Another State Department official quit in frustration over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy: Casey resigned from the state department in July after four years at the job, discreetly leaving the post unlike other recent high-profile government departures. Now...

The end of Assad’s rule makes most U.S. sanctions on Syria obsolete, so naturally hawks in Congress want to keep them in place: Republican and Democratic U.S. senators say it is too soon to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar...

According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump is considering military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities: President-elect Donald Trump is weighing options for stopping Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon, including the possibility of preventive...

More than a week after Yoon’s attempted coup, the South Korean president is digging in his heels and refusing to quit. Yoon is now under investigation for insurrection, and he is under a travel ban so that he cannot leave the country. The disgraced president delivered...

Amnesty International concluded in a new report this week that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza: The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive...

Van Jackson identifies some of the things that we can reliably predict about Trump’s foreign policy: Will Trump preside over a growing defense budget that officially eclipses more than $1 trillion? Will US grand strategy remain primacist? Will economic statecraft...