Month: August 2022

The United States killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a drone strike over the weekend, two people briefed on the operation told POLITICO. Al-Zawahri was an Egyptian who took over Al-Qaeda after the U.S. killed its longtime leader, Osama bin Laden, in 2011. Although he never achieved the household name status of his predecessor, Al-Zawahiri’s […]

Max Bergmann is director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served as a senior adviser in the U.S. State Department from 2011-2017.  For the European Union, granting Ukraine candidate status was, without question, a significant step. However, what Kyiv, as well as other Western Balkan capitals, should be […]

The Palace of Westminster is falling down The seat of British democracy is literally falling apart — and MPs can’t decide how to save it. By Esther Webber and Callum Tennant in London LONDON — A funny thing happened in the seat of British democracy. As parliamentarians prepared to take their places in the House […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan on Tuesday, decisively ending weeks of wrangling between the United States and China about whether she should make the trip. Pelosi’s controversial stop in Taipei, which would make her the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the self-governing island in decades, indicates that the Pentagon has downgraded its assessment of a […]

Stricken with Covid for the second time in two weeks, President Joe Biden nevertheless was a leader triumphant on Monday night, taking to the Truman Balcony to announce a foreign policy success that could very well help define his first term in office. Dressed in a blue suit and red tie, the sun reflecting a […]