Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group announced a temporary halt in fighting to facilitate rescue work after the huge earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its main Western allies for waging …

Lessons From the West’s Botched Response to Moscow’s 2008 Assault on Georgia When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he was confident that this new assault on the rules-based international order would not be met with serious pushback—and with good reason. For more than a decade, Putin had gotten away …

The White House Has Failed to Match Means and Ends Many foreign policy analysts breathed a sigh of relief when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump in the White House two years ago. With Biden’s hands on the wheel (and Trump’s erratic and at times reckless tenure in the rearview), the …