The United States has long viewed Russia as a power in terminal decline. This assessment formed in the 1980s as the Soviet Union began showing clear signs of imperial overstretch, and it congealed ...

Many observers in both Beijing and Washington view the emerging consensus as a contingent result of the interests of the two men currently in charge. Trump, for instance, has taken it upon himself to ...

SHANNON K. O’NEIL is Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. An expert on Latin ...

Twenty-five years ago, members of the jihadi group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon, in ...

Al-Qaeda has ended. The organization that Osama bin Laden founded and led, that attacked the United States 25 years ago and killed 2,977 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and ...

For Iran and the United States, August 24 was Groundhog Day. “We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” declared U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

In July, Bloomberg reported that for the first time in roughly two decades of Pew Research Center global polling, the world now views China more favorably than the United States. The sentiment was not ...

Europe itself, he said, needed to “take ownership of conventional security on the continent.” Last month, to turn this vision into reality, the Pentagon launched its Europe Posture Review, which is ...

How the Axis of Resistance Recovered The Iranian-Led Network Is More Dangerous Than Ever Peter Salisbury, Wolf-Christian Paes, and Henry Thompson ...

For 47 years, the Islamic Republic has bedeviled U.S. presidents. The 1979 Iran hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter’s reelection bid. The Iran-contra scandal in the mid-1980s badly tarnished ...

Separated from China by a roughly 100-mile-wide strait, Taiwan relies on its navy as the first line of defense against a potential invasion. It must be able to prevent an assault by a Chinese force ...