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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is touring Israel and the Middle East, where the U.S. has official ties with nearly every country. Israel has ties to only five.

Geopolitical debates on power and competition in the Arctic have been around since the Cold War. Is a new flashpoint ahead or is the danger overblown?

New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger takes a minute to answer questions about cyberattacks and why they have become the new weapon of choice for foreign adversaries.

While an improving tenor in official relations could lead Russians to warm to the United States, American public opinion may be more resistant.

Find out how this Eastern European poster child for democracy backslid into autocracy, and what lessons it holds for the rest of the West.

"The consequences of the blockade are severe," writes Ivo Daalder in Politico on how a naval escort might end Russia's Black Sea blockade.