By now, the Russian euphoria that greeted improved relations with Washington this spring has diminished, but many Russian ...

When the operation began, the Houthis were explicitly targeting Israel as well as Israeli-linked ships—though not U.S.

Between 2021 and 2024, the number of reported recruits rose roughly 1,000 percent, from 36 children to more than 450. This ...

HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER is a Senior Fellow in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

SOPHIA BESCH is Senior Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in ...