A changed political situation in South Korea and the U.S. could represent an opportunity for an opening gambit. But any ...

The Biden administration is reportedly set to announce its final Ukraine aid package under its Ukraine Security Assistance ...

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fell amid complex geopolitical shifts, not because America and her allies are imperialists ...

For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad ...

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump helped ...

The collapse of the Assad Regime in Syria is the latest in a series of political and military defeats that have staggered the ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

In 2023 the prize was given to Greece for dragging itself out of a long financial crisis and re-electing a sensible centrist ...

Assad's regime is the latest casualty of Iran's war on Israel. After keeping his hold on Syria through 13 years of civil war, ...

For the world, 2024 was riven by — and in some ways defined by — conflict on two fronts. The ripples after the previous ...

President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of ...

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three forces: first, Israel’s military utterly eviscerated Assad’s ...