Foreign Policy

Draft rules released by NOAA would require shutting down surveying operations for dolphins. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Treat China’s fishing pirates like the pirates of old

By Washington Examiner April 26, 2026 5:00 am

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump says Putin attending G20 in Miami would be ‘very helpful’

Brady Knox Apr 23, 2026

Smoke rises from a building following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon

Trump announces three-week extension of Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

Brady Knox Apr 23, 2026

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters outside the Oval Office.

Trump is not starting a war with Iran. He is finishing one

Obed Kohn Faran and Walter E. Block Apr 21, 2026

Trump waves while wearing a red USA hat

Trump administration pushes for second ceasefire deal with Iran as gas prices weigh on the public

Mabinty Quarshie Apr 21, 2026

Dennis Coyle.

Dennis Coyle ‘very thankful’ for returning to US and family

By Asher Notheis March 25, 2026 12:54 pm

Close-up of Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf

US and Israeli officials insist Iran’s speaker is negotiating despite denials

By Timothy Nerozzi March 25, 2026 7:00 am

U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, reach the ground after jumping from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft during a 'Saber Strike 2018' military exercises at the Gaiziunai Training Area, some 130 kms (80 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, June 9, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries is taking place in the alliance's eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Trump to deploy at least 1,000 airborne troops to Middle East amid Iran peace talks

By Claire Carter March 24, 2026 8:10 pm

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the swearing in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington.

Trump jokes Hegseth doesn’t want Iran war to end

By Mike Brest March 24, 2026 4:37 pm

Liberia-flagged tanker Shenlong Suezmax, carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia and clearing the Strait of Hormuz, is seen at the Mumbai Port in Mumbai, India.

Trump risks encouraging Iranian escalation

By Tom Rogan March 23, 2026 4:27 pm

President Donald Trump, accompanied, from left to right, by Jared Kushner, Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Trump says US negotiators met with Iranian counterparts night before strikes postponed

By David Zimmermann March 23, 2026 11:41 am

President Donald Trump speaks with the media before boarding Air Force One, Monday, March 23, 2026, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says ‘me and the ayatollah’ could control Strait of Hormuz if Iran deal reached

By David Zimmermann March 23, 2026 11:31 am

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Trump postpones strikes on Iranian power plants for five days amid peace talks

By David Zimmermann March 23, 2026 7:25 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greets Ambassador of Iran to Russia Kazem Jalali, right, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, center, prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia has been an early beneficiary of the US-Iran war in the Middle East

By Callie Patteson and Mike Brest March 23, 2026 6:00 am

Marco Rubio.

State Department creates new humanitarian bureau after shuttering USAID

By Rena Rowe March 20, 2026 6:13 pm

President Donald Trump listens with his eyes closed before Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin presents him with a bowl of shamrocks during a St. Patrick's Day event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

‘Left-leaning’ countries don’t want to be seen as ‘helping’ Trump: Guy Benson

By Asher Notheis March 18, 2026 4:35 pm

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel marches during a rally

Cuban president warns of ‘impregnable resistance’ after Rubio demands leadership change

By Rena Rowe March 18, 2026 11:57 am