Fareed discusses some of the many foreign policy challenges facing the incoming Trump administration with Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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The Biden administration imposed new sanctions on Russian and Iranian entities over their attempts to interfere in the 2024 election.

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia, accusing them of attempting to interfere in the 2024 U.S. election. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement the

The treaty will "formalize the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation," Russia's foreign minister said in late October.

After Assad's regime was toppled in Syria, Iran and Russia seem to have suffered the biggest setback. Moscow and Tehran see West coming closer to Syria, which used to be closely intricated with their geopolitical aspirations.

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: The forty-seventh president wants a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program and

Hossein Shamkhani, whose father is a senior figure in Tehran, has emerged as a major player in the supply of Iranian arms to Russia, according to US officials and people familiar with his dealings.

Iran and its proxies and allies — from Syria to Lebanon to Gaza — have taken a beating in military engagements this year.

Israel must strike Iran now, hitting high-value targets within the Islamic Republic, in order to provide the second Trump administration with leverage over the New Eurasian Axis and to end the radical clerics' rule.

The United States on Tuesday issued fresh Iran and Russiarelated sanctions targeting individuals and entities over interference in the 2024 U.S. election, according to a posting on a Treasury Department website.