Foreign Policy

Western democracies that were once reliable defenders of human rights have been consumed by a nativist backlash, leaving an open field for dictators and demagogues.

The U.N. relief agency has been left with millions in unpaid bills.

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

The biggest problem with many African countries is that they're led by men like Trump.

Aid experts fear the Trump administration’s focus on Christians and other religious minorities could do more harm than good.

The president's policies often deviate from his dangerous preferences. But these divergences present their own problems.

If Russian outlets have to file, lawmakers ask, why not Chinese ones?

The founder of the games dreamed of inspiring world peace. He created an event that's always done the opposite.

It was a Category 5 blizzard of ignorance, crudeness, and recklessness.

U.S. policy toward Venezuela is changing — and so are political dynamics in Latin America.

By Elias Groll, Dan De Luce, Sharon Weinberger, and Robbie Gramer Fat fingers. Officials in Hawaii are beginning to sort through just how the state’s emergency alert system incorrectly told residents on Saturday that a ballistic missile was speeding toward the island. The results aren’t pretty: Early reports indicate that the wrong button was pushed ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, solutions to many of the world’s toughest problems already exist—you just need to know where to look for them.

Exporting British Columbia’s abundant energy resources should have been a slam dunk. How did a multibillion-dollar dream go up in smoke?

Serving as a U.S. diplomat in Zimbabwe is tough. Life for African-American diplomats there is even harder.

The Trump administration’s Middle East strategy revolves around a threat that doesn’t exist.

Kurdish officials once dreamed of forging their own state out of the ashes of the war against the Islamic State. Now they are fighting for their very survival.

Despite its defeat on the battlefield, the Islamic State is using Iraq’s black market to stockpile millions of dollars to fuel its coming insurgency.

Bollywood’s dark hit comedy features a bureaucrat lost in India’s political jungles.

U.S. diplomats worry the president’s comments will set back relations. Others wonder why it took the “shithole” comment to get Washington to finally notice Africa.

Why are young Iranians demanding the return of the Pahlavi dynasty? Media-savvy exiles in Europe.