U.S. foreign policy

How hopes for Myanmar's democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)

5:41am December 23, 2024

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and democratic future.

An Israeli settler stands with an Israeli flag before a man holding up a Palestinian flag during a demonstration in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in February 2022.

Biden wants a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Is it still possible?

5:16am October 27, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Biden is calling for a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the long-discussed framework is increasingly unpopular in the region. Here are some of its challenges — and alternatives.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.

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With visit to China, Blinken clears a diplomatic path, but it's unclear where it goes

6:45am June 20, 2023

by John Ruwitch

Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip shows the Biden administration is keen to reignite diplomacy and inject stability to its dealings with China, but whether it was a success remains to be seen.

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Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian pictured meeting in Tehran, on Tuesday. Grossi pressed for greater access in the Islamic Republic ahead of diplomatic talks re

Iran nuclear talks are starting again. A lot has changed, and here's what's at stake

10:01am November 28, 2021

by Larry Kaplow

The deal provided Iran sanctions relief for limits on its nuclear program. But now there's new Iranian leadership and more uranium in their stockpile than when Trump abandoned the agreement.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a Cabinet meeting Aug. 1 in Jerusalem.

Israel's New Leader Wants A Fresh Start With America. That Will Be Tough

1:05pm August 25, 2021

by Daniel Estrin

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will seek to set a new tone when he meets President Biden following tense moments between Israel's former leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Democrats.

A U.S. Navy hovercraft prepares to hit the beach during amphibious-landing exercises as part of an annual joint U.S.-Philippine military exercise on the shores of San Antonio, facing the South China Sea, in Zambales province, Philippines, on April 11, 201

4 Things To Know After The Philippines Kept Its Pact With The U.S. Military

5:57pm August 06, 2021

by Julie McCarthy

After threatening since last year to cancel it, President Rodrigo Duterte decided to restore the agreement that enables U.S. forces to operate in the Philippines. Here's why that matters.

President Biden waves as he prepares to depart the airport after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, on June 16.

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Opinion: We Don't Need A Biden Doctrine Dividing The World Into Good And Bad

6:10pm June 22, 2021

President Biden sees foreign policy as a battle between democracies and autocracies — and that's a flawed doctrine, according to analysts Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.

Joe Biden met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2011, when Biden was U.S. vice president and Putin was Russia's prime minister. A decade later, the two will meet as presidents in Geneva on June 16.

Politics & Government

Biden And Putin Won't Hold A Joint News Conference After Their Geneva Meeting

10:53am June 12, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Biden will instead hold a solo press conference, which a White House official called "the appropriate format to clearly communicate with the free press the topics that were raised in the meeting."

Friends and family members of slain prominent Lebanese activist and intellectual Lokman Slim (shown in the raised image), attend a memorial ceremony in the garden of the family residence in the capital Beirut's southern suburbs, a week after he was found

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Opinion: Pursuing Diplomacy With Iran Doesn't Mean Ignoring Its Bad Behavior

6:34pm February 18, 2021

by Firas Maksad

Arab and U.S. liberals differ on how to handle Iran and its proxies, writes Firas Maksad. He says reactions to the killing of his friend Lokman Slim, a critic of Hezbollah, are a case in point.

Technicians work inside of a uranium conversion facility producing unit in 2005 outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. After the 2015 Iran nuclear deal put limits on the program, Iran's government has been increasing uranium enrichment since the United States

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Opinion: Iran Is Escalating Its Nuclear Program. Biden Should Not Rush To Respond

10:18am January 08, 2021

by Henry Rome

Iran has announced new nuclear steps aimed at the incoming Biden administration, but the U.S. has leverage to push back, argues analyst Henry Rome.