Former President Trump touted his foreign policy credentials during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, name-checking the strong relationships he built with leaders of rival nations and allies alike during his term, most notably Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the “strongman” of Europe. “He’s a tough person, smart prime minister of Hungary,” Trump said, adding that Orban...
Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul said he still intends to haul in Antony Blinken on the Afghanistan withdrawal even after his sprawling report was completed, and will hold him in contempt of Congress if he does not comply. “This was a catastrophic failure of epic proportions,” the Texas Republican told reporters on Monday. “This...
Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a scathing report that took a fine-toothed comb to the military’s botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal and highlighted areas of serious mismanagement. The Republican-led report opens by harkening back to President Joe Biden’s urgency to withdraw from the Vietnam War as a...
The U.S. needs to remain aware of China and Russia’s ambitions to control the Arctic region, even if the public doesn’t realize the full value of the territory, an expert told Fox News Digital. “That whole area … it does have, in a purely military context, it has importance,” RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery explained. “So,...
Military experts have suggested to Fox News Digital that it remains a distinct possibility Iran could declare itself a nuclear power this year with the United States’ political future uncertain amid a tightly contested presidential election. “I think that’s a real option,” said James Carafano, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies for The...
German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian national in connection to the explosion that damaged the Nord Stream 2 pipeline two years ago, resurrecting questions of Ukraine’s involvement in the incident. The suspect, identified by German media only as “Volodymyr Z,” had lived in Poland at the time but fled to Ukraine...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent threat to invade Israel should not be taken lightly and betrays Ankara’s continued regional ambitions, according to an official from Cyprus. “Any threat being made publicly has to be taken very, very seriously here and we think that the international community cannot ignore or disregard the threats,” Konstantinos Letymbiotis,...
Israel’s strike on Hezbollah Tuesday prompted anger from Lebanon’s allies, and the country’s foreign minister condemned the operation and urged an international response to the attack. “I wanted to address what happened over the last few hours in terms of the Middle East and be very clear Israel has the right to defend itself. And...
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki allegedly asked the Foreign Affairs Committee to pass along an apology to Gold Star families for denying President Biden checked his watch during a ceremony. Psaki agreed to a closed-door transcribed interview with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday regarding the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan evacuation. Psaki served...
President Biden’s Oval Office address on Wednesday night prompted little reaction from foreign leaders, but China and Russia provoked an Air Force incident in a preview of what the coming months may hold, an expert says. “Russia and China will almost certainly take advantage of the tenuous situation in the White House,” Rebekah Koffler, a...
