Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel is now treating Israeli Jews as it does Palestinians.

More than ever, North Korea will likely turn to China as its primary provider of food, money and material resources.

If Israel attacks Iran, the United States will be left holding the bag.

Highlighting foreign policy and defense stories that beggar credulity to the utmost.

AQ Khan may have sold nuclear know-how and technology to India.

North African Jewry constitutes one of the great cultural traditions of all time.

Presidential candidates are praising it. Former administration officials are defending it. Will the United States backtrack on torture?

One of the albatrosses around the New START treaty’s neck is missile defense.

The Jewish community in Tunisia survived regime change comparatively unscathed.

Hitler’s ghost and nuclear weapons.

A Vietnamese-American artist who arrived in the United States with one son and one shoe seeks to capture the debate on immigration in a huge mural.

Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states are using their wealth to counter external challenges (Iran) and internal ones (the Arab Awakening).

The West’s refusal to engage in substantive disarmament undermines its credibility to Iran.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Czech leader Vaclav Havel, although political opposites, shared some things in common.

The West tries to reassure itself that North Korea’s nuclear weapons won’t get lost in the shuffle of succession.

Russians are coming out onto the streets to transform their country once again.

Unless there is a decisive turn in events, Washington might be getting closer to losing a powerful ally in a much-troubled and highly strategic region.

Don’t expect a virtual embassy and public diplomacy to have much effect on Iranians.

Tunisia is an indication that the U.S. recognizes it’s been riding dark horses in the Middle-East for too long.

A poem about Hillary Clinton’s visit to see Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.