Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s July 21 meeting with President Donald Trump clarified the terms of the U.S.-Lebanese relationship but did not resolve Lebanon’s central problem: Hezbollah’s weapons...
Hezbollah was quick to reject the latest Israel-Lebanon ceasefire brokered by the United States this week. It did so despite President Donald Trump floating direct talks with the Iranian-backed terrorist...
With a final offer – and a final warning – to Tehran
Latest Developments MBS Investment and Diplomatic Ties: President Donald Trump warmly greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on November 18, signaling a closer relationship...
November is shaping up to be an historic month at the White House. After welcoming Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the Oval Office on November 10, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) will...
Trump Meets With Former Hostages, Families: U.S. President Donald Trump met on September 10 with a delegation of former Israeli hostages and family members of those still held in...
The Alaska summit revealed Putin’s neo-Soviet goals
“Very Substantial Progress”: Joined by several European leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss a possible...
Zelenskyy to Visit Washington: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday after Trump’s summit in Alaska with his Russian counterpart...
The time for talk is over. President Donald Trump issued a major deadline to Russia on Monday. If Moscow does not “make a deal” with Kyiv within 50 days, countries that do business with Russia...
What a statue tells us – and should tell President Trump – about Vladimir Putin
Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch.
President Donald Trump this week took important steps to advance his “Golden Dome” missile-defense system — and not a moment too soon. For years, administrations of both parties...
No Hamas Member Safe: President Donald Trump issued a “final warning” to the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group and allied organizations holding Israeli hostages in Gaza. “‘Shalom...
On Monday, the Trump administration announced it was “pausing and reviewing” military aid for Ukraine following the contentious Oval Office meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr...
There’s still time to avoid emboldening America’s enemies—and a humiliation that dwarfs his predecessor’s Afghanistan withdrawal.
In cyberspace, as in other domains, peace comes through strength.
High-stakes diplomatic negotiations almost never play out in view of the public. During Friday’s charged White House meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump,...
It is no coincidence that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz clarified that the US does not intend to use military force in Gaza and does not support the forced removal of the Gazan population.