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Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of politics, security, and economic and social issues in the Middle East and the evolution of U.S. policy in the region.

For Iran and the United States, August 24 was Groundhog Day. “We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” declared U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

Twenty-five years ago, members of the jihadi group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon, in ...

Many observers in both Beijing and Washington view the emerging consensus as a contingent result of the interests of the two men currently in charge. Trump, for instance, has taken it upon himself to ...

The Case Against Israeli-Saudi Normalization A Deal Won’t Forge a Two-State Solution or Push China Out of the Middle East and Jennifer Kavanagh September 17, 2024 ...

LIANA FIX is a Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. An expert on German foreign policy and European security, she has previously worked at the Körber Foundation in Berlin, the ...

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Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of al Qaeda, including the group’s strategy in the Middle East, relationships with other terrorist organizations, decision-making, leadership, and more.

In July, Bloomberg reported that for the first time in roughly two decades of Pew Research Center global polling, the world now views China more favorably than the United States. The sentiment was not ...

Europe itself, he said, needed to “take ownership of conventional security on the continent.” Last month, to turn this vision into reality, the Pentagon launched its Europe Posture Review, which is ...