Image — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sign the agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 7 August 2026. Turkish ...

The success of any coalition seeking to maintain open shipping lanes under the potential threat of renewed violence in the Gulf will depend less on military might and more on how it is designed. From ...

This weekend current and former employees of US AI laboratories and their leaders issued dire warnings of a near-term apocalypse at the hands of AI. Out-of-control AI development could mean ‘we could ...

In a joint statement issued on 6 February the Trump administration announced it had reached an agreement to lower tariffs on India. The agreement has reduced the reciprocal tariff on India from 25 per ...

Jihadist and Tuareg separatist militants launched a sequence of shocking attacks across Mali on 25-26 April. The unprecedented scale, geographical spread and levels of coordination demonstrated by the ...

The second of International Affairs’ centenary special issues – devised and guest-edited by Amrita Narlikar and Daniel W. Drezner – is a ‘how not to guide’ for international relations. Focusing on ...

The retreat of the United States from global health has left more than a funding gap; it has exposed the weakness of a system that leaned too heavily on a handful of donors. For decades, Washington ...

The US and Israel celebrated their June attacks on Iran’s nuclear installations as having degraded the country’s nuclear programme ‘by up to two years’. But verifying that claim is difficult, and the ...

Chatham House announced on Monday that General Sir Richard Barrons will join its International Security Programme as a senior consulting fellow. Sir Richard will take up the role in September 2025.

Image — Canary Wharf against the London skyline on a hazy day on 7 October 2024. Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images. In the run up to President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK this week, some ...

Anna and Bhargabi speak to former National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy about how the first year of Trump 2.0 has impacted global efforts to address climate change.

Members of civil right defence conduct a search and rescue operation on destroyed buildings after an airstrike was carried out over the city of Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib province in Syria, on 6 May ...