Foreign Policy Feed

A former military dictator and late convert to democracy, Nigeria’s two-time ruler lacked the discipline to enact transformational change.

Sacking specialists and cutting federal funding only helps adversaries and competitors.

No one wants a long war, and doing nothing was no longer an option.

The president beat out nativist arguments to dismantle a national quota system.

The president’s recent moves don’t fit the usual binary of U.S. foreign policy—but there is a historical precedent.

The state of the China- and Russia-backed bloc in the Trump era.

The secretary of state was sent to a regional security forum with an unenviable job.

U.S. strikes were limited, but the campaign against Iran could still get messy.

Read the full text of U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech.

U.S. President Donald Trump said the attack was “very successful.”