International

Seven Days to Reopen a Strait: Iran Offers Trump an Exit Ramp From the War, on Its Own Terms

Background

The war that Iran's foreign minister is now trying to end with a stopwatch began on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched a coordinated wave of airstrikes on Iran under the code names Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion. The strikes, which came in the middle of live US-Iran…

Islamist Party's Stunning Comeback Scrambles Morocco's Coalition Math After Record-Low Turnout

Rabat, Morocco 

Morocco's ruling coalition topped Wednesday's parliamentary election, but the headline result out of Rabat was not who won — it was who came back from the dead. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), the Islamist movement that led the government for a decade before being all but wiped out…

One Vote Short: Senate Blocks Effort to End the Iran War as Gas Prices Squeeze the GOP Before Midterms

World Politics Desk 

Background

The United States has now been at war with Iran for roughly six months, a conflict that began with American and Israeli military action against Iranian targets and has since drawn in the Strait of Hormuz, disrupted global energy shipping, and pushed…

Grand Spectacle, Modest Substance: Xi Jinping's First Washington Visit in 11 Years Yields a Truce, Not a Breakthrough

World Politics Desk  

Background

Chinese leader Xi Jinping touched down at Joint Base Andrews on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 24, greeted personally by President Donald Trump on the tarmac in an unusually elaborate welcome for a foreign head of state. (Some outlets, including…

Custody Deaths of 37 Miners Plunge Nigeria Into Crisis as President's Extended Absence Fuels Constitutional Alarm

Minna, Niger State 

A week after 37 artisanal miners died inside an overcrowded holding cell run by a Nigerian paramilitary agency, the country is confronting a dual political crisis: mounting evidence that guards may have deliberately suffocated detainees during a raid on illegal gold-mining sites, and a…

Congo and Rwanda's Peace Process Faces Its Toughest Test Yet as Fighting Persists in the East

Kinshasa/Kigali 

More than 15 months after the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda first signed a U.S.-brokered peace framework, negotiators from both governments met in Geneva on September 16 and 17 for the seventh round of talks under the deal's Joint Security Coordination Mechanism — and the…