The Israel-Hamas war concluded with the implementation of a U.S.-backed ceasefire on Oct. 10, leaving the future of the militant group that has governed Gaza since 2007 uncertain. Hamas has lost ...

In a week filled with news about President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves to take control of Greenland, the world got a window into his thinking about the concept of “peace.” “Considering your ...

On the Thursday, December 4, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: As pressure builds for a path to peace, we look at the global negotiations shaping Ukraine’s future and what each side needs before ...

Mr. Kuleba was the foreign minister of Ukraine from 2020 to 2024. He wrote from Kyiv. You’d be forgiven for being completely lost amid the flurry of diplomatic meetings and plans to try to end the war ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what’s likely to happen in the real world. They are ...

Jan. 1 is marked each year as the World Day of Peace, a tradition begun by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and continued by every pope since. Across decades and vastly different global moments, each has insisted ...

The recently unveiled “28 Point Plan” might as well have been a Russian wish list. Secretary Rubio leading the negotiations lends hope that the eventual agreement will strengthen, not weaken, American ...