Geopolitics

Vance warns Israel against fighting the Iran deal as Tehran threatens a “harsh response” over Lebanon Vice President JD Vance on Thursday delivered a blunt public warning to Israel: the Iran deal is happening, and the United States will not tolerate allies who try to kill it. Hours earlier, Iran’s armed forces command issued its […]

Ukrainian drones struck a Moscow oil refinery for the second time this week on Thursday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presses the United States and European allies to turn the diplomatic momentum from the G7 summit into concrete support for ending the war. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 555 Ukrainian drones across […]

Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the worst political pressure he has seen in months. The cause is not a domestic scandal or a corruption indictment. It is the US-Iran agreement signed last week in Switzerland, a deal that cut Israel out of the process entirely and now threatens to force the Israeli prime minister to choose […]

“I’m the boss,” Donald Trump said as he walked into the morning session of the G7 summit’s final day, the other leaders already seated around the table. It was a joke delivered with a grin, and the room laughed. But like most of Trump’s jokes, it carried the weight of a statement of fact. The […]

Pentagon Abandons ‘Indo-Pacific,’ Reverts INDOPACOM to PACOM in Symbolic Shift With Strategic Teeth The Pentagon officially renamed the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command back to its original title — U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) — on June 17, 2026, eight years after the name was changed to emphasize the strategic link between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The […]

Macron hosts Trump at Versailles as G7 closes with AI lunch, Iran deal and critical minerals pact EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The 2026 G7 summit closed on June 17 with President Emmanuel Macron steering French domestic political risk and transatlantic optics into a single evening: a private dinner with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Palace […]

The first Iranian oil tankers in two months have sailed out of the US Navy blockade perimeter in the Strait of Hormuz, three days before Washington and Tehran are due to open formal peace talks in Switzerland. The movement is the most concrete sign yet that the ceasefire framework signed last week is being implemented […]

EVIAN, France – French President Emmanuel Macron declared that the G7 summit in Evian produced a “very deep change in the US approach” on Ukraine, as leaders from the world’s seven largest advanced economies delivered a unified joint statement that President Donald Trump endorsed in full, a sharp departure from last year’s fractious gathering. Speaking […]

The Iran war is winding down, and Beijing is taking notes. As Foreign Policy’s James Palmer writes in his China Brief newsletter this week, the lessons China draws from the conflict will shape its strategic posture across the Middle East and beyond for years to come. The war exposed something China has long tried to […]

The last day of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains produced a cascade of events that capture the fragility of the peace the world is hoping for. On the same Wednesday the seven leaders welcomed the US-Iran framework deal and called for a ceasefire in Lebanon, the American president warned he would “go back to shooting” […]