Suddenly, nearly all planes and ships entering or leaving Taiwan must first stop at a mainland port in Fujian Province before traveling to their final destination. Beijing has seized control of most ...

But after the Israeli and U.S. militaries launched a war on the Islamic Republic at the end of the month, eliminating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other key regime figures, the Islamic ...

President Donald Trump, who distrusted the transatlantic relationship in his first term, has tried to refashion it in his second. He has exerted extreme pressure on European countries, most ...

In early 2024, the Islamic Republic of Iran was riding high. It was the dominant external actor in four Middle Eastern states: Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Its missiles and armed proxies menaced ...

But almost as quickly as they arrived on the scene, Russia’s oligarchs soon became political targets themselves. In the first decade of this century, with the tumult of the prior decade receding, ...

Whatever happens with the regime in one form or another, it’s incidental to the president’s primary objective here, which is to make sure the Iranian terrorist regime does not build a nuclear bomb.” ...

Over the last few weeks, the Iranian regime has faced remarkable challenges—and displayed remarkable unity. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the Islamic Republic ...

Today, Turkey and Iran mistrust each other deeply and have backed opposing camps in wars and political disputes in Iraq, Syria, and the South Caucasus. Yet unlike some of the Unit ...

In recent years, after all, China has escalated its campaign of coercion against the island democracy, lobbing missiles over it, staging a blockade during live-fire military exercises, and threatening ...

For decades, they had advertised their belief in an American-led international order and a U.S.-dominated global economic system that they did not, in fact, believe in—and Canada was done pretending.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and ...

The 75th anniversary of the Korean Workers Party in October 2020 was not the festive affair that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted it to be. Despite the fireworks, military flyover, and ...