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.
The newly assembled U.S. security and foreign policy team spent the weekend effectively endorsing Trump’s assurances to Russian President Vladimir Putin that his unprovoked war against a sovereign neighbor will end with the Kremlin achieving its main objective.
In a menacing ultimatum more befitting a mafioso than a newly empowered world leader, Trump has declared that Greenland will become an American property one way or another.
Trump’s appointment of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to helm the State Department infused a note of sobriety into expectations of how to stop the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.Â
Elon Musk, the billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump’s successful 2024 run for the White House, has earned the title of Shadow U.S. President by pressuring the president-elect to scuttle...
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.