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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US hopeful of Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal in ‘coming days’

    National security adviser Jake Sullivan says negotiators in Paris reached ‘understanding’ on basics of agreement

    Smoke from an Israeli bombardment of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden issues new sanctions against Russia in response to Navalny death

    Measures on eve of second anniversary of Ukraine invasion target war effort and attempts to get round oil cap rules

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Global InsightAndrew England
    Israel-Hamas hostage talks test US diplomatic heft

    Washington is caught between support for Israel and desire to halt Gaza war

    FILED - 15 November 2023, Israel, Tel Aviv: Israeli’s Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant (L) meets with the US Special Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk (R) at the Ministry of Defence. Photo: Ariel Hermoni/GPO/dpa - ATTENTION: editorial use only and only if the credit mentioned above is referenced in full
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US warns Israel against offensive into Rafah in draft UN resolution

    Text seen by Financial Times also calls for ‘temporary ceasefire’ in Gaza

    Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump

    He is obsessed with money but his record suggests he doesn’t always drive a hard bargain

    Donald Trump, then the US president, talks with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron at the G20 in 2017
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Kim Ghattas
    Israel’s ‘don’t reward them’ argument misses a moment of opportunity

    It is time for Biden to deploy his political capital with Israelis to give Arab diplomacy a chance

    Joe Biden with Benjamin Netanyahu during the US president’s visit to Tel Aviv in October
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli cabinet rejects international calls for Palestinian state

    Unanimous vote highlights barrier towards peace deal as Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ over Hamas

    Israeli protesters at a border crossing with Egypt
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Mike Studeman
    The US needs a better strategic narrative or it will cede influence to China

    Department of Defense experts complain it is easier to drop a bomb than get approval to launch ‘information fire’

    Montage image of a dragon and an eagle representing China and the US
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden pins blame for Russian battlefield victory on Congress inaction

    Ukraine outgunned in Avdiivka as stalled US talks on $60bn aid package for Kyiv leave it short of munitions

    Months of fierce fighting have almost destroyed the city of Avdiivka
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Alexander Gabuev
    Nato has no choice but to strengthen its bulwarks against Putin

    An ageing Russian ruler surrounded by sycophants may embark on even more reckless moves in coming years

    Vladimir Putin visits a military plant of Uralvagonzavod research and production corporation in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia, this month
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Nato chief warns Europe cannot deter Russia without US help

    Military alliance is growing increasingly concerned about possibility of a second Trump presidency

    A Callenger 2 tank.
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    Israel’s Rafah offensive: a tipping point for US support?

    A heavy-handed operation in the city could be a decisive blow to the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Jerusalem

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The security risks that haunt the world

    American power remains crucial for international stability

    Two Ukrainian soldiers seen from behind standing next to their artillery unit as it fires, filling the sky with flames
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the US wants to show Europe that it still cares about its security Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Euroclear thrown into the spotlight

    A member of the German armed forces near the venue for the Munich Security Conference in Munich
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Nato
    Why Nato members are sounding the alarm on Russia’s aggressive posture

    Western defence figures warn of Moscow’s capabilities and heightened threat beyond Ukraine

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, visiting Uralvagonzavod’s tank factory in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, Russia on February 15 2024
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    US intelligence
    White House discloses ‘troubling’ anti-satellite advance by Russia

    Kremlin said to be developing space-based system but no ‘immediate threat’ posed

    John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Trump’s awful truth: the US can go it alone

    He intuits something important about Americans. Their scariest enemies are within

  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    US intelligence
    Russia seeks new nuclear capabilities in space, US intelligence shows

    White House faces calls to declassify information about ‘serious national security threat’

    Congressman Mike Turner
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Putin says he prefers Biden over Trump in US election

    Comments come after US president urges Congress to back aid for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia

    Vladimir Putin
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Nato
    Nato defence spending to hit record as alliance braces for potential Trump win

    Eighteen of 31 countries are set to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence

    Donald Trump among other leaders at the Nato summit in the UK in 2019
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US aid for Ukraine: a new chance for $60bn to get through Congress?

    Kyiv’s funding hinges on what the Trump-allied House Speaker does next

    Mike Johnson
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    US-China relations
    Top US House China hawk plans visit to Taiwan next week

    Committee chair Mike Gallagher has been sharp critic of Beijing and its regional influence

    Mike Gallagher
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Biden blasts Trump for ‘un-American’ comments about Nato allies

    President tells House Republicans ‘history is watching’ as they stall aid for Ukraine war effort

    Evan Vucc/Joe Biden
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Venezuela
    US ‘concerned’ by arrest of Venezuelan lawyer and relatives

    Washington attempting to ensure authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro permits ‘free and fair’ elections later this year

    Lawyer and military analyst Rocío San Miguel
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    US Senate approves $95bn bill that includes aid to Ukraine

    National security funding proposal risks languishing in House of Representatives because of Donald Trump’s opposition

    A man holds a mixed flag of Ukraine and the US outside the US Capitol as the Senate debates the aid package
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