Traditionally, alliances were forged as highly contingent, time-bound partnerships, but after World War II, the United States went about establishing permanent ones, including NATO and bilateral ...

In the wake of agreeing to a two-week ceasefire on April 7, both the United States and Iran are claiming victory in their war. Each says the same thing: We held out and the other guy blinked first. In ...

In late March, both Israel and Iran attacked gas fields in the Persian Gulf, the most dramatic escalation yet in the Iran war. By striking upstream energy infrastructure, the belligerents have ensured ...

The performance should give pause to U.S. adversaries that have been watching the war in Iran unfold. Massive volleys of long-range drones and ballistic missiles are a preferred offensive tool of ...

For now, Washington seems to care far more about the fortunes of Venezuela’s economy, notably its oil industry, than those of its democracy. Yet those priorities have placed Venezuela in a paradoxical ...

If Magyar wins and Orban allows the results to stand, the new government can set Hungary on a path back toward democracy. But the regime might be prepared to go to great lengths to secure victory, ...

For decades, Europe assumed that its U.S. ally would come to its defense if the continent faced a direct attack from its neighbor to the east. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s hostility toward Europe ...

But it has done little to resolve the strategic incoherence at the heart of the U.S.-Israeli campaign that neither government has been willing to acknowledge publicly: the two partners have been ...

Polling by Arab Barometer, a survey project that we co-lead with others, conducted in the months after October 7 showed a sea change in public opinion. As ordinary people in the region witnessed ...

Three years into the country’s catastrophic civil war, Sudan’s patchwork of battlefields has hardened into something that resembles a de facto partition. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s Sudanese ...

Until the cease-fire announced on April 7, the United States largely confined its operations against Iran to the sky and the sea. President Donald Trump appears to have understood that a large-scale ...

An individual could potentially use an AI model or a combination of models to engineer a dangerous pathogen, launch autonomous cyberattacks on power grids or hospital networks, or create and ...