Foreign Policy

European Union and Italian flags are seen in downtown Rome, Italy, October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi - RC118853AF70

Europe votes: How populist Italy is missing out

Carlo Bastasin and Giovanna De Maio

Friday, May 24, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC197ADEC1E0

Mr. Trump goes to Tokyo: Behind all the pageantry, undercurrents of concern as tough trade talks loom ahead

Friday, May 24, 2019

A Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighter rides in a military vehicle at the Iraqi-Syrian border near al-Qaim, Iraq, November 26, 2018. Picture taken November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani - RC13847779F0

How US-Iran tensions could disrupt Iraq’s fragile peace

Thursday, May 23, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto attend the USMCA signing ceremony before the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC156BBD3810

Democrats should seize the day with North America trade agreement

Luis de la Calle and Arturo Sarukhan

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

A far-right National Front political party supporter holds a French flag during a rally for local elections in Marseille, March 16, 2014. Registered voters will receive an envelope containing the declarations of faith of candidates for the first turn of the French local elections which will run on March 23. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - GM1EA3H08Q901

Europe votes: France’s atomized politics and vaporized influence

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. Reuters and The New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for images of the migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000387306

Has the far right already won the European Parliament elections?

Sam Denney and Kemal Kirişci

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner smiles while listening to U.S. President Donald Trump talk as the president meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC188FAA0870

How Trump’s approach to the Middle East ignores the past, the future, and the human condition

Shibley Telhami

Monday, May 20, 2019

A Southern Popular Resistance fighter fires a weapon mounted on a truck during clashes with Houthi fighters in Yemen's southern city of Aden May 3, 2015. Between 40-50 Arab special forces soldiers arrived in Aden on Sunday and deployed alongside local fighters against the Houthi militia, a spokesman for the Southern Popular Resistance said. REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000082449

In Yemen, the Houthi strategy has promise and risk

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Palestinian boys sit atop the ruins of a house that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in the east of Gaza City May 12, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000092322

What we can learn from yet another round of conflict in Gaza

Eyal Tsir Cohen

Thursday, May 16, 2019

An attendent cleans the carpet next to U.S. and Chinese national flags before a news conference for the 6th round of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, July 10, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1EA7A1AO901

Democrats need to place China at the center of their foreign policy

Wednesday, May 15, 2019