Section: Foreign Policy (USA)
Meet the Five Newest Members of the U.N. Security Council
They won’t get the power of a veto, but Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine, and Uruguay will soon have seats at the horseshoe-shaped table of the United Nations Security Council. In an uncontested vote at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, the nations were given five of the council’s non-permanent seats. The newly elected...
Can Poroshenko Control Ukraine’s Right Wing?
The Ukrainian leader’s newest opponents are in his own parliament. …read more Source: Foreign...
Buk Missile Found Responsible for MH17 Crash, But Who Launched It?
A new report has confirmed that a Buk missile was responsible for the crash of MH17 in Ukraine in 2014. Who launched it, though, remains a mystery. …read more Source: Foreign...
‘Winter on Fire’: The Evolution of Ukraine’s Revolution
A conversation with Evgeny Afineevsky, the director of Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. …read more Source: Foreign...
Winter Is Coming. And So Is Ukraine’s Far Right.
An armed, radical threat could tear Ukraine apart before snow falls in Kiev. …read more Source: Foreign...
Russia to Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst: You’ll Always Have a Home in Crimea
The lead singer of Limp Bizkit loves Russia, and officials there think he’d like Crimea too. They’re urging him to feel free to move there. …read more Source: Foreign...
Carter: Russia Wrapping Itself in ‘Shroud of Isolation’
Defense Secretary Ash Carter delivered an unusually forceful condemnation of Russian military action in Syria and Ukraine, saying Thursday that Moscow “has continued to wrap itself in a shroud of isolation,” by ignoring international norms in annexing Crimea, fueling the fight in eastern Ukraine, and throwing its weight behind embattled Syrian...
Smart Privatization Can Save Ukraine
How can Kiev save its moribund economy? By breaking the bonds between companies and the state. …read more Source: Foreign...
Russia’s Information Campaign Spreads from Ukraine to Syria
In Ukraine, the context was that there was no Russian troops in Ukraine. In Syria it has become that there are only airstrikes against the Islamic State. …read more Source: Foreign...
Situation Report: Syrian rebel training put on ice; top defense official calls it quits; Kunduz under attack; Russia readying airstrikes in Syria; Ukraine wants attention; Kony search breeds suspect friends; and lots more
By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley Hold up. The U.S. has put the brakes on the troubled $500 million Syrian train and equip program, halting the intake of new fighters “as we re-evaluate our efforts,” a U.S. Army spokesman told FP. The change comes after a group of U.S.-trained Syrians handed over their brand-new American-issued …...