For years, the United States’ political dysfunction has been attributed to large-scale social and economic changes. Experts point to the failures of globalization, rising inequality, reduced social ...

By attacking Saudi shipping and Saudi Arabia itself, they have effectively opened a second front in the Iran war, broadening that conflict and placing further pressure on global energy and financial ...

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump met in Beijing, in May, they agreed that their two countries should build a constructive relationship of strategic stability. Although ...

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected Nelly Lahoud Sept/Oct 2021 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States, Russia, and China may not yet be in an arms race, but they are gearing up for one. Washington is building a new intercontinental ballistic missile, strategic bomber, and ballistic ...