Foreign Policy

The court ruling paves the way for prosecutors to investigate the Taliban, Afghan military, and U.S. forces.

Ideas about natural and unnatural behavior causing disaster are simple, easy—and wrong.

Even as they publicly support the pact, many privately think it is built on a house of cards and will be pulled down by the country’s bloody past.

Reshaping institutions and funding can help save lives.

The celebrity couple abandons their royal duties and moves to Vancouver Island. For Canadians, that rekindles an old debate: Why is a British monarch still their head of state?

Questions remain whether other oil exporters will join the pact to slash output—and if that will be enough to push up crude prices.

Peace advocates and hardliners within the Taliban are feuding over whether to stick to the fragile agreement, the Pentagon says.

Indian culture may be ancient, but its unity is rare and recent. A growing hostility to Muslims threatens to upend the world’s largest democracy.

If he leads the next government, the prime minister is likely to annex much of the West Bank and deepen attacks on judicial independence.

The Syrian government offensive in Idlib has raised the stakes for Turkey and Russia.

The EU refused to prepare for a predictable rekindling of the migration crisis—and is now responding with deadly force.

The appointment of White House aide Sean Doocey could douse hopes of change for a battered and bruised State Department bureau.

Airstrikes against Taliban forces threaten to undermine a pact that may be already coming apart.

Wuhan virus continues to spread, Trump's Middle East peace plan is unveiled, and calls for Scottish independence grow.

Report cites “serious concerns that basic fair trial standards were not respected.”

Wild claims of Chinese plots are spreading fast on social media.

Arab states might accept Trump’s one-sided initiative, but an increasingly vocal new generation of Palestinians won’t allow regional leaders to sign away their right to a sovereign homeland.

Republicans successfully fight off a call for witnesses, but a final vote to acquit will come after next week’s State of the Union.

The United States should get serious about ending slavery once and for all.

A transcript of Ursula von der Leyen’s remarks on Brexit