Masoud Andarabi, previously Afghanistan’s interior minister, says that “Afghans will see the world through Chinese algorithms ...

In 2021 when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, Manizha Bakhtari the Afghan ambassador to Austria, thought it was ...

Rubio’s campaign against the ICC exposes U.S. double standards on international law, Russia, Ukraine and accountability.

President Trump, who promised to “end wars,” not start them, may have fallen into a familiar presidential trap.

Hello, it’s Wednesday, and I’m Mared Gwyn. In today’s newsletter: the view on the ground in Ukraine as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visits, and a new EU-UK pact marks a “new ...

Tajikistan says 17 Afghan drug trafficking suspects were killed in seven border clashes during the first half of 2026.

Some institutional failures unfold not through scandal but procedure, with acts of sabotage dressed up in the language of good-faith inquiry and accountability. By the time anyone notices what is ...

Today, my colleague Steven Erlanger, who covers diplomacy, writes about whether the Iran war is the next Iraq or Afghanistan.

When this program was first planned several months ago, none of us could have imagined how dramatically the world would ...

The 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, opening on July 19 at BEXCO in Busan, will spend significant time ...

Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal Court, have decided to take to the barricades. In a July 13 media ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday issued a new broadside in the U.S. fight with the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...