foreign policy

As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, translators could be in danger, says Matt Zeller of No One Left Behind. Zeller says he is only alive today because an interpreter saved his life in combat. Now he’s speaking up for other interpreters and urging President Biden and Congress to act swiftly to bring Afghan interpreters to Guam, where they can be...

New U.S. sanctions on Russia are “mostly symbolic” and will have minimal impact on markets and the macroeconomic outlook, economists have suggested.

This week, President Joe Biden called out China in a press conference, saying Chinese President Xi Jinping doesn’t have a “democratic bone in his body,” even comparing him to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Words that China is not taking without a response. Plus, North Korea resumes missile testing while rejecting new attempts at diplomacy.

Top U.S. and Chinese officials have wrapped up two days of contentious talks in Alaska after having traded sharp and unusually public barbs over vastly different views of each other and the world in their first face-to-face meeting since President Joe Biden took office

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visited Moscow last week in what’s being described as a “humiliating” trip.

President Joe Biden called on the military in Burma to relinquish its position and reopen telecommunication channels after staging a coup earlier this week.

President Joe Biden spoke to members of the State Department on Thursday about their critical diplomatic role under his administration, saying, “America is back. Diplomacy is back. You are the center of all I intend to do. You are the heart of it.”

President-elect Joe Biden is filling out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree setting parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year

Watchdogs say Americans’ priorities in peril when former members of Congress take foreign paychecks

Why are foreign nations like Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China allowed to buy influence in Washington D.C., potentially putting other countries’ priorities ahead of America’s? And why are former members of Congress doing their bidding for them? NBCLX found more than 50 former members of the House & Senate who have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in...

President Donald Trump says Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so in the run-up to Election Day

President Donald Trump is highlighting diplomatic wins with a series of events in the run-up to the election, but solutions to the country’s most challenging foreign policy problems are still out of his reach. The president is playing host at a ceremony Tuesday where two Arab nations will formally recognize Israel. The White House says such events are not aimed...