For more than three weeks protesters have gathered peacefully in Tirana, the capital of Albania, cheered on by Americans who see them as plucky warriors against President Trump, Israel and the greed of the “1 percent.” The protests were set off by public outrage over violent security guards at the site of a planned coastal…
President Trump likes his military and diplomatic victories quick, clean and decisive. On his desk in the Oval Office, he keeps models of the B-2 bombers that took out three Iranian nuclear sites in one night, not quite a year ago. In the opening weeks of the Iran conflict this year, he talked often about…
The image of raw emotion stood out even amid all the chaos. Erika Kirk, widow of the conservative movement, sobbing in her shimmering white ball gown, as men in suits ushered her out of the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner after another moment of violence overtook politics. It was a symbol of one political…
President Trump called off a trip by two of his top negotiators to Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday, just before they were set to leave for talks about a potential deal to end the war in Iran. “I’ve told my people a little while ago, they were getting ready to leave, and I said, ‘Nope, you’re…
With plans for U.S.-Iran peace talks derailed, at least for now, Tehran and Washington are sinking into an awkward limbo of neither peace, nor war, each hoping to outlast the other in a standoff with drastic stakes for the global economy. Iranian officials seem confident they can withstand economic pain caused by war longer than…
President Trump on Saturday called off a trip by two of his top negotiators to Islamabad, Pakistan, just before they were set to leave for talks about a potential deal to end the war in Iran. “I’ve told my people a little while ago, they were getting ready to leave, and I said, ‘Nope, you’re…
As nuclear talks restart in Pakistan this weekend, President Trump will confront the complicated legacy of his own decision, eight years ago, to cancel what he has called “a horrible, one-sided deal.” That Obama-era agreement suffered from flaws and omissions. It would have expired after 15 years, leaving Iran free after 2030 to make as…
The United States and Iran on Friday were taking steps to resume peace talks, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships and ports would continue for “as long as it takes” to get Tehran to agree to a deal. Steve Witkoff, a U.S. special envoy, and Jared Kushner, President…
