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Will Trump Put Boots on the Ground in Iran?

Will Trump Put Boots on the Ground in Iran?

Middle East and North Africa Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where John is still recovering from the earth-shattering news that...

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Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Toolkit: Drones, Missiles, and Mines

Middle East and North Africa We’ve lifted the paywall. Foreign Policy’s coverage of the Iran war is free to read for a limited time. Welcome back...

12.03.2026 9

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Trump’s New Cyber-First War Strategy

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11.03.2026 9

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Trump Says Iranian Supreme Leader Is Dead

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01.03.2026 10

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The Pentagon and Anthropic’s High-Stakes Game of Chicken

Science and Technology Middle East and North Africa Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where sources tell us, mind-blowingly, that...

27.02.2026 10

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How Chinese Espionage Eroded U.S. Power

China’s technological rise has been one of the United States’ biggest preoccupations for nearly a decade, across both Democratic and Republican...

20.02.2026 20

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Rubio’s ‘Reassuring’ Relationship Repair

Welcome to the second pop-up edition of Foreign Policy’s Situation Report at the 2026 Munich Security Conference. It’s been an action-packed day...

15.02.2026 70

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EU Don’t Need U.S.?

13.02.2026 80

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How Taiwan Sees the World

11.02.2026 5

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What We Know About the India-U.S. Trade Deal

03.02.2026 10

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TACOs in Greenland?

23.01.2026 40

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Trump’s Imperialist Military

09.01.2026 20

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Cyberdefense Enters a Dangerous New Phase

05.01.2026 30

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Trump Says U.S. Forces Have Captured Venezuela’s Maduro

03.01.2026 20

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Trump’s Pivot to Pakistan

08.12.2025 8

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Trump’s New National Security Strategy Goes Full ‘America First’

06.12.2025 10

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Pete Hegseth’s Bad Week

05.12.2025 5

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The Trump Trade Tracker

15.11.2025 8

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China Makes a Tech Splash in Portugal

12.11.2025 5

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Why Congress Is So Mad at the Pentagon

07.11.2025 10

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The Defense Implications of Trump’s Asia Trip

31.10.2025 10

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What Trump and Xi Did—and Didn’t—Agree To

31.10.2025 10

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‘Putin Doesn’t Want Peace’

30.10.2025 7

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The Countries Courting Trump With Critical Minerals

28.10.2025 8

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The Trump Trade Tracker

28.10.2025 20

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The Countries Courting Trump With Critical Minerals

21.10.2025 6

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Albanese Is Finally Getting His Trump Meeting

17.10.2025 10

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The NBA’s Long Road Back to China

15.10.2025 6

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How a U.S. Government Shutdown Could Impact Washington’s Foreign Policy

02.10.2025 10

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UNGA Beyond the Conflicts

26.09.2025 9

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Trump’s United Nations Grievance Airing

24.09.2025 6

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Taiwan’s Message to Trump and the U.N.: ‘We’re Not a Freeloader’

20.09.2025 10

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Trump’s New War on ‘Narcoterrorists’

05.09.2025 8

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What to Know About Trump’s Deal With Intel

28.08.2025 9

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How Many Peace Deals Has Trump Actually Brokered?

23.08.2025 9

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How Many Peace Deals Has Trump Actually Brokered?

22.08.2025 5

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World Leaders Debrief Trump’s Meetings With Zelensky and Putin

20.08.2025 10

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Key Takeaways From Trump’s Meeting With Zelensky

19.08.2025 10

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Who Zelensky Is Bringing to Washington—and Why

18.08.2025 20

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Who’s With Trump in Alaska

15.08.2025 10

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What Trump and Putin Want From the Alaska Summit

15.08.2025 20

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Trump Piles the Pressure on Putin

07.08.2025 8

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The Trump Trade Tracker

31.07.2025 9

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Trump Dredges Up the Russian Oil Fight

25.07.2025 9

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AUKUS Gets Raucous

25.07.2025 8

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Third Parties in America Usually Fail. Can Elon Musk Change That?

10.07.2025 5

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The Quad Isn’t Quitting

04.07.2025 8

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Stockholm Syndrome in The Hague

25.06.2025 10

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NATO Gears Up for Another Trump Show

23.06.2025 10

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‘We Have Changed as a Country’

11.06.2025 7

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