diplomacy

President Joe Biden sounded all the right notes in his Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke on the need for global coopera...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is right to be concerned about a soon-to-be-operational Russian gas pipeline. He’s wrong to obstruct U.S. diplomacy over it. For m...

The struggle for freedom is never finished. It is iterative and incremental. Where freedom is won, it can be lost again. Surveying the world around us...

President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity in the next few months to regain his footing as a foreign policy president after the fall of Kabul — a chan...

Lost wars are supposed to provoke soul-searching. In America, they usually bring historical revisionism instead. When once-good wars go bad, Americans...

At 9:05 Monday night, State Department spokesman Ned Price issued a plaintive message to the new rulers of Afghanistan. “The Taliban needs to meet its...

WASHINGTON — The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war and closing a chapter in military history l...

Reports from Washington and Kabul show the extent to which the Biden administration has been counting on the Taliban to facilitate the U.S. withdrawal...

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for Thursday’s deadly suicide attacks outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six y...

Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from which U.S. influence may never recov...

Just this month, we’ve seen political collapse in Haiti and military collapse in Afghanistan. South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, turned 10 years ...

Barely a day passes without additional news of Taliban gains in Afghanistan. Perhaps the Afghan government and its forces will prove more resilient th...

The voice of my Afghan friend phoning from Herat was trembling. “The security situation is getting really worse,” she said. “We don’t know what will h...

There can’t be many Americans who would not say the war in Afghanistan has been a mess — one folly after another. And now Joe Biden has done what the ...

Israel has a new government — but how much difference this will make to the prospects for peace is in doubt. In Gaza, Hamas emerged from its recent 11...

The most eagerly awaited event in President Joe Biden’s overseas trip to Europe is his summit meeting Wednesday in Geneva with Vladimir Putin. This is...

Catching up with a friend over Zoom, I wondered recently what might have happened if China had come clean about the presence and origins of COVID-19 b...

As rockets and bombs flew between Israel and Gaza this month, Joe Biden’s tactics in handling a major foreign policy crisis drew criticism from both s...

GALETON — The PA Route 6 Alliance is requesting nominations for its annual “Do 6” Awards recognizing individuals, groups, projects and communities tha...

The Ever Given had been stuck in Suez sand for nearly a week when my neighbor asked if we were sure the giant container ship hadn’t been sabotaged. It...