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A grassroots revolution in Iran sounds attractive, but it is far too risky. The likely outcome of dismantling the Islamic Republic is not stable democracy, but state fracture, political chaos, and ...

The technological change and unit economics first seen in Ukraine is on display in Iran, showing that the use of low-cost drones is the future of warfare.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.

Cindy McCain’s tenure running the World Food Program will end prematurely. The executive director announced on February 26 that she planned to resign for health reasons following a stroke in October.

A surprise attack on a southwestern border town by a Mexican rebel leader provoked a U.S. military intervention in Mexico ...

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah’s success at the Nepalese ballot signifies a triumph for Gen Z demonstrators across ...

The United States launched a major military operation with little to no consultation with its transatlantic allies. Taken ...

As cross-border Chinese currency payments rise, we find evidence that a key U.S. financial sanctions tool may be weakening.

What began as a small deployment of U.S. Marines to protect an airbase at Da Nang in Vietnam escalated into one of the most ...

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

Anthropic’s public standoff with the Pentagon over AI safety terms ended with the company being designated a national security supply chain risk, a legally dubious power play. As Chinese AI rivals ...