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High-level week of #UNGA starts tomorrow! @iyengarish.bsky.social and I will be on the ground all week. Keep an eye out for daily pop-up editions of SitRep. We’ll bring you all of the most important/juiciest details from UN HQ. Sign up for our newsletter here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/w...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, experts on political violence warn that the US has entered a dangerous new era akin to what the country experienced in the 1960s, and they’re urging political and community leaders to take steps to reduce tensions. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/c...

“This is a dangerous, lawless thing to do,” @schiff.senate.gov told me, referring to the strikes as “essentially extrajudicial killings.”

@schiff.senate.gov and @kaine.senate.gov have introduced a war powers resolution to block Trump from continuing to use military force against alleged drug traffickers near Venezuela. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/s...

With several months still left, 2025 is already on track to be a historically violent year in the United States, FP’s @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social reports.

@fisherdanar.bsky.social: “The only other time that we’ve had such a heightened period of political violence, if you think about all the things that have happened from [January] 2021 through now, is in the 1960s"

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, experts on political violence warn that the US has entered a dangerous new era akin to what the country experienced in the 1960s, and they’re urging political and community leaders to take steps to reduce tensions. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/c...

Throughout the Israel-Hamas war, concerns have been raised about the potential for a regional conflict to break out. But in many ways, this is already the reality in the Middle East, write FP’s @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and @iyengarish.bsky.social.

BREAKING: Charlie Kirk's shooter remains at large after FBI Director Kash Patel says the "subject in custody" has been "released after an interrogation." Patel announced earlier in the evening that the "subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody."

I did a lengthy interview with Charlie Kirk in Dec. 2018. He didn’t like some of my questions (and made that clear). But he still engaged with me. We have to be able to have difficult conversations without the threat of violence. The US is in a dark place, to say the least.

He was campaigning on “no new wars” less than a year ago and now: Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

A federal appeals court ruled most of President Donald Trump's global tariffs are illegal, striking a massive blow to the core of his aggressive trade policy.

Ginsberg has a clear message for Western media covering the war in Gaza if they want to support their Palestinian colleagues on the ground: “Do your fucking job.” “Report what’s happening...Ask the questions."

“If there are no consequences and no adherence to international humanitarian law and the rules don’t apply, why should they apply anywhere else? The repercussions from this, not just in the region but globally, will play out for generations to come,” Ginsberg said.

Ginsberg said that CPJ is “investigating at least 26 cases where we believe Israel has deliberately targeted journalists as journalists, and that, in itself, is an unprecedented figure.”

@jodieginsberg.bsky.social, CEO of @pressfreedom.bsky.social, told me there are two reasons why the war in Gaza has been so deadly for reporters: “The scale of the war itself, coupled with the direct targeting of journalists as journalists.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/29/i...

Images of troops performing landscaping duties in the nation’s capital also don’t exactly jibe with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stated mission of transforming the military into a leaner, more lethal force—and restoring a “warrior ethos.”

Since being deployed in Washington, National Guard troops have been seen picking up trash and spreading mulch under cherry trees, which doesn’t quite paint a picture of a city so dangerous that there was no choice but to send in the military. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/28/t...

“I’ve ended six wars,” Trump told Zelensky and several reporters in the White House on Monday. But the reality is a bit murkier, write FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social.

Putin is “not genuinely considering a peace agreement other than on terms that has Ukraine capitulating,” William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told me. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/21/d...

“This is actually not going well for Putin,” Kurt Volker, former U.S. amb to NATO and special representative for Ukraine negotiations, told me. “He doesn’t ever want to admit that, but I think he knows it. And we should not be rushing this on the assumption that Ukraine’s going to be defeated.”

The situation remains challenging along the 600-mile front line in Ukraine. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/u...

Europe's Redeem Team comes to Washington. My @foreignpolicy.com roundup of who's accompanying Zelensky to meet Trump in the White House today, and what each of them bring to the table: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/z...

How it started/How it's going foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/t...

As Trump and Putin meet in Alaska, FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social outline what both presidents want out of the summit and what they’re likely to get.

Donald Trump is using an imaginary crime spike in D.C. to deliver the authoritarian government his party once warned about, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

More than 190 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war, @pressfreedom.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“I think it’ll be good, but it might be bad,” Trump said yesterday of his upcoming Alaska summit with Putin. Meanwhile, Kyiv + its supporters are worried that Putin could use the meeting to push Trump toward supporting a deal that’s advantageous to Russia. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/12/t...

“When there is an airdrop, my colleagues at the field hospital get their emergency room ready to receive patients.” Must-read by @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social on starvation in Gaza: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/g...

“The U.N. and so many other aid organizations have been doing humanitarian relief work in the [Gaza] Strip for a long time. They know how to operate in these situations. They have experienced staff, and that’s just been wiped out,” said @rebeccajaynewolfe.bsky.social

My conversation with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social was one of the most insightful & thought-provoking I’ve had in a long time about Gaza. What’s so heartbreaking is that we know how to get people aid; it doesn’t have to be this way.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached new heights in recent months amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid. FP’s @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social examines what we know—and don’t know—about the crisis based on the available information.

“What we are witnessing is a genocide. Hunger is part of that,” Willemen said, describing the situation as “engineered chaos.” People are "being starved on purpose...shot at when they look for food...deprived of sufficient water,” she added.

Netanyahu recently claimed that there is "no starvation in Gaza." This is contradicted by data and other evidence. Caroline Willemen, an MSF project coordinator in Gaza City, told me what she's been seeing is "apocalyptic" and "completely dystopian." foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/g...

Asked whether the UK should have unconditionally recognized Palestine as a state, which 140+ countries (including Slovenia) have already done, Slovenia's foreign minister told me she understood that the UK and others are being cautious but that “of course” much more can be asked from many states.

The UN's two state solution conference helped offer "a political horizon for those Palestinians who cling to the idea that there may be a diplomatic solution to their situation," @richardgowan1.bsky.social told me.

I talk to @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com about why the UN's two state solution conference "offers a political horizon for those Palestinians who cling to the idea that there may be a diplomatic solution to their situation". foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/31/p...

I spent much of my week at the UN for a conference that aimed to revive the two-state solution. The conference raised pressure on countries to recognize Palestine + produced a roadmap for how the international community hopes to bring peace to the region. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/31/p...

France and Saudi Arabia co-hosted a conference at the U.N. this week that aimed to breathe new life into the long-standing but elusive goal of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and @iyengarish.bsky.social break it down:

UN chief says Palestinian statehood is “a right, not a reward.” He warns that denying statehood would be a gift to extremists everywhere.

Happening now: UN conference on a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine

The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to "immediately meet and quickly work out a ceasefire" after days of cross-border violence, according to a social media post by US President Donald Trump on Saturday. cnn.it/4o9rdQa

NEW: I spoke with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today. We covered a lot—including his recent criticism of Israel's approach to the war in Gaza, and why he’s avoided explicitly leveling allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/22/f...

AUKUS Gets Raucous. Latest @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/24/a...

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...

Olmert also offered his thoughts on growing international criticism of Israel re: Gaza, the recent killings of Palestinians seeking aid, the prospects for a cease-fire/hostage deal, Israel’s recent conflict w/ Iran, and why he believes Netanyahu needs to “be very careful” in his relations with Trump

NEW: I spoke with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today. We covered a lot—including his recent criticism of Israel's approach to the war in Gaza, and why he’s avoided explicitly leveling allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/22/f...

Latest edition of SitRep breaks down the Israel-Syria situation and the consequences for Trump’s foreign policy agenda foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/17/i...