Carol J. Williams is a retired foreign correspondent with 30 years' reporting abroad for the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. She has reported from more than 80 countries, with a focus on USSR/Russia and Eastern Europe.
After more than half a century of tyrannical rule, Syria’s Assad dynasty has come to an end following a lightning 10-day offensive that sent dictator Bashar al-Assad fleeing for...
His ominous plans to appoint some of the most unqualified people ever to inhabit the security and intelligence apparatus have U.S. allies bracing for chaotic economic fallout and rising instability that some fear could escalate into World War III.
With the exception of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris would be the most foreign policy-experienced U.S. president to take office in 35 years if she is elected in November.
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Harris criticized Trump and allied pro-Russia Republicans in Congress calling for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war. “These proposals are the same as those of Putin,” she agreed with Zelensky.
Harris is being hailed by foreign policy experts from the left, right and center as an advocate of the internationalism that Biden has attempted to revive to provide the U.S. influence necessary to resolve conflicts and divisions ravaging the planet.
It was the largest and most complex prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow since the end of the Cold War.
President Joe Biden hailed the release of the Americans and Russian opposition activists as evidence of the importance of U.S. leadership and allied unity.
A palpable sense of relief swept France and much of Europe as Sunday’s surprising results showed the success of the New Popular Front’s strategy of uniting parties from far left to center.
Given the rising cost and toll of dead and seriously injured, estimated by British military intelligence to be 500,000, why is Putin trying to provoke a wider conflict with provocations against NATO-allied neighbors and the United States?Â
Putin’s bellicose rhetoric lands on sympathetic ears in Moscow, far from the Ukraine battlefields and the remote Russian areas where its fighters are recruited. But his resurrection of Stalinist-era repression is likely to eventually backfire as the reality of the Ukraine war’s toll on a generation of men becomes apparent.