The Biden administration’s announcement that it will limit economic sanctions as a tool of foreign policy could prove significant, since it follows two decades in which policymakers of both parties dramatically increased the use of sanctions against governments, individuals, and entities that they considered bad actors.
Whatever happened to America's Syria policy?
The West faces a key test of its commitment to human rights as the Taliban cements its rigid rule in Kabul.
The message from Israel’s top leadership could not be any clearer: It is prepared to act to prevent a nuclear Iran.
Iran's impending entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Eurasian bloc that China and Russia lead, has great potential to limit U.S., Israeli and Western leeway in confronting Tehran's nuclear and hegemonic aspirations, sponsorship of international terrorism and efforts at regional de-stabilization.