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The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran expires tonight. No deal has been reached. No formal extension has been agreed. Vance is...
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The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran expires tonight. No deal has been reached. No formal extension has been agreed. Vance is...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly condemned coups. Certainly, he had skin in the game: The 1997 “soft coup” led to the fall...
Beijing’s relentless drive to transform itself into a global power places it in direct competition with the U.S. That has affected both nations’ relations...
As the world continues to grapple with the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. national security practitioners have once again returned to the question of...
In one impetuous act, France demonstrated the bankruptcy of its foreign policy, its national pointlessness, and the broader obsolescence of NATO. On Friday, Paris...
President Joe Biden frequently uses the phrase “America is back” to contrast his foreign policy with his predecessor’s and has followed through by reversing...
Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nevada), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act...
Don’t let the official talking points coming out of the White House fool you. With its recent, disastrous execution of the U.S. withdrawal from...
On September 12, 2021, Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Arab League had agreed to cover $12 million of Somalia’s $29 million...
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![Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in the virtual U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on April 7, 2021. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]](https://www.19fortyfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Somalia-100x100.jpg)
The political crisis in Mogadishu sparked by the kidnapping and murder of National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) cyber-expert Ikran Tahlil Farah continues. To...
Twenty years ago a triumphant superpower—variously termed the unipower, hyperpower, essential nation, and more—was brought low. Having spent years imposing its will upon other...