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Senior general-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing inspects a parade marking Myanmar’s 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
October 8, 2026, 10:22 am
US opens direct talks with Myanmar, reversing years of isolation amid deadly civil war
Leader of Southeast Asian country remains under sanctions for human rights abuses, but State Department says engagement is only path forward: ‘You don’t solve problems by ignoring them’
By Simon Lewis
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett addresses a 'security concept conference' held by his B’Yachad party, August 19, 2026. (Elad Gutman)
August 19, 2026, 7:53 pm
Bennett: Israel should strike Iran to retaliate for Hezbollah attacks
B’Yachad chief accuses PM of tearing ‘Israeli society to shreds’ at party conference. Lapid calls to repair Israel’s ‘bipartisan status’ in US, strengthen ties with Diaspora Jews
By Sam Sokol
A view of the destruction in Gaza, February 22, 2024. (AFP/ Said Khatib)
March 2, 2024, 3:50 pm
The devastation of Gaza was inevitable: A comparison to US operations in Iraq and Syria
Urban warfare has always been brutal for civilians — and the war against Hamas was designed by the terror group to be an extreme case
By Barry R. Posen
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) and Energy Minister Israel Katz. (Collage/AP)
December 31, 2023, 1:49 pm
Cabinet okays Israel Katz replacing Eli Cohen as foreign minister, in planned move
Change during wartime, while in keeping with rotation agreement, indicates that ‘the centers of diplomatic power lie elsewhere’ in the government, says expert
By Sam Sokol
Israelis celebrating the new year at a pub in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 2, 2023, 3:15 pm
Israel ranks among 10 most powerful countries in annual list; 4th strongest military
US News & World Report finds Israeli military behind only US, China Russia; country is world’s 6th most politically influential and 10th strongest power; but ranks only 37th ‘best’
By ToI Staff
Then-presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
November 11, 2020, 2:07 pm
Biden can do well in the Mideast, if only because so little is expected of him
Under both Obama and Trump, America seemed capricious and unable to keep its commitments; few are now willing to risk relying on its short attention span
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, watches then-US president Barack Obama, center, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on January 4, 2017 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/File)
November 9, 2020, 3:46 am
Obama blew his Mideast hopes on his first trip. Will Biden chart a wiser course?
The new president will seek to repudiate his predecessor. But Obama showed that an administration cannot achieve its goals armed only with the knowledge of what it is not
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Rohingya Muslim refugees crowd a canal as they flee over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, November 1, 2017. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/via JTA)
February 6, 2019, 11:12 am
Israel maintains warm ties with Myanmar, downplaying a human rights controversy
The Jewish state continues to claim its ‘first friend’ in Asia is kosher, despite widespread violence by the government against Rohingya Muslims
By Charles Dunst
In this January 22, 2019, photo, Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, left, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Rick Scott, speak to the media after their meeting with US President Donald Trump about Venezuela, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
February 3, 2019, 12:31 am
Senate reasserts foreign policy role, reshaping Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda
Traditional conservatives are pitted against the GOP’s nonintervenionalist wing as they vie for influence over the White House’s overseas policies
By LISA MASCARO
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara boarding a plane at Ben Gurion Airport before departing to Moscow, Russia, on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 14, 2019, 2:39 pm
Davos, Chad, DC: Despite elections, legal woes, Netanyahu plans diplomatic blitz
PM to fly abroad at least three times before Election Day; will also meet host of world leaders, including some who may announce moving embassies to Jerusalem
By Raphael Ahren
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini gives a press conference after an EU-Tunisia Association Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on May 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)
October 29, 2018, 12:58 pm
Poll finds most Israelis see EU as a foe rather than a friend
Russia considered most important country for Israel after the US, new survey finds; 41% don’t want to visit any Arab country
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on December 6, 2017, during a diplomatic conference organized by The Jerusalem Post on Israel's security and economic ties (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
December 6, 2017, 1:23 pm
PM, ahead of US Jerusalem move, hails ‘important expression’ of Israeli identity
Netanyahu says he will have more to say on Trump’s expected announcement later; Lapid and Bennett urge other countries to follow US lead, recognize united Jerusalem as capital
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Oded Eran
October 2, 2017, 3:15 pm
Oded Eran
Israel’s hollow support for Kurdish independence
Benjamin Netanyahu’s endorsement does nothing for Kurds in Iraq and may harm Kurds elsewhere
Emily B. Landau
June 12, 2017, 12:44 pm
Emily B. Landau
Trump-contempt is clouding the picture
Foreign policy analysis is suffering under false assumption the US president has no coherent policy
Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2016, 9:41 am
Opposition MKs demand PM explain diplomatic moves to powerful Knesset panel
Yesh Atid party wants Netanyahu questioned on his series of punitive measures against countries that supported anti-settlement resolution in Security Council
By ToI Staff
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