Foreign Policy

President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on November 28, 2019.

Intelligence Agencies Don’t Agree Whether Russia Paid the Taliban to Target U.S. Soldiers. That Doesn’t Mean Trump Wouldn’t Have Known About it

U.S. and allied military and intelligence officials in Afghanistan collecte...

U.S. and allied military and intelligence officials in Afghanistan collected information indicating that Russian intelligence officers maintained a fund for rewarding Afghan militants who killed American and Afghans soldiers, but senior officials are divided on...

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court makes a speech during the 18th session of the ICCs Assembly of States Parties, in The Hague, Netherlands on Dec. 2, 2019.

10 Questions for International Criminal Court Chief Chile Eboe-Osuji

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, president of the International Criminal Court, tell...

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, president of the International Criminal Court, tells TIME that as far as he is aware, the Trump Administration has not yet acted on its June 11 threat to sanction members of the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a televised address to the nation in Moscow on June 23, 2020

Why U.S. and EU Officials Are Worried Putin Might Make Another Move in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments about the legitimacy of Russia’...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments about the legitimacy of Russia’s borders in a documentary broadcast on Russian television have rattled some U.S. allies, fearful that he might be laying the groundwork for a further military...

Peter Navarro, director of the National Trade Council, speaks to members of the media after a television interview outside the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 18, 2020.

President Trump Says China Trade Deal ‘Fully Intact’ After Adviser Appeared to Claim It Was 'Over'

Contracts on the S&P 500 Index fell as much as 1.6% before paring losses an...

Contracts on the S&P 500 Index fell as much as 1.6% before paring losses and the offshore yuan weakened 0.4%

China's President Xi Jinping, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump, right.

A Chilly Summit in Hawaii Spotlights Escalating U.S.-China Tensions

The chilliest place in Hawaii this week — other than the summits of Mauna L...

The chilliest place in Hawaii this week — other than the summits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, which barely rose above freezing — was Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, where Secretary of State...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a group photo at NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Summit in London on Dec. 4, 2019.

Unquiet on the Western Front: Why the 74-Year Alliance Between Europe and America Is Falling Apart

When German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas suggested during a June 15 video co...

When German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas suggested during a June 15 video conference between 28 European Union diplomats and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the U.S. and Europe push Israel and the Palestinians to...

Defying Trump's Landmark Peace Deal, Taliban Continues to Back Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, UN Report Says

The U.S. went to war in Afghanistan with one goal in mind: ridding the coun...

The U.S. went to war in Afghanistan with one goal in mind: ridding the country of the threat of al-Qaeda just weeks after the group killed nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now,...