Initial polls suggest that President Trump has work to do to persuade Americans that he made the right decision in launching major combat operations against Iran.

On October 26-October 28, 2025, the Institute for Security Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted the Council of Councils Sixteenth Regional Conference in Pretoria, South Africa.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Top of the Agenda The war launched by the United States and Israel against ...

Publication of an intercepted cable exposed a clumsy German effort to forge an alliance with Mexico and helped propel the United States into the Great War.

Iran’s nuclear program and missile arsenal have garnered increased international scrutiny. Despite U.S. strikes on Iranian bases last year, nuclear talks between the two countries are now back on the ...

Korea’s record current account surplus was offset by large equity outflows. This marks a new era for U.S. balance of payments ...

CFR experts assess the brewing conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, following the launch of a joint ...

As Anthropic and the Pentagon clash over the use of artificial intelligence, CFR President Michael Froman reflects on the ...

But the costs of this terrible war, already weighing so heavily on Sudanese civilians, will not be contained by Sudan’s borders.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.

A penetrating look at American wars over the last century. In early 2009, when the Obama administration assumed responsibility for the unfinished wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of the new ...

In 1954, an unusual ally helped President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeat a constitutional amendment to curtail presidential ...