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![<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting in Beijing, China on September 2, 2025.</p>]()
![<p>President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian General Omar Torrijos shake hands after signing the Panama Canal Treaties, September 7, 1977.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey, March 12, 1947.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>President Franklin Roosevelt signs H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Act, March 11, 1941.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>Balendra Shah, a rapper-turned-politician and the prime ministerial candidate for Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), greets his supporters as he celebrates after winning the election in Damak, Nepal, on March 7, 2026.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>United States Marines of the 9th Expeditionary Brigade wade ashore at Da Nang, Vietnam, March 8, 1965.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>The Capitol Building after a vote in the House of Representatives on a resolution aimed at stopping the military campaign against Iran, March 5, 2026.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) questions Secretary of State Marco Rubio on U.S. policy toward Venezuela during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, January 28, 2026.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>President Donald Trump announces that the United States has begun major combat operations in Iran, February 28, 2026.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay- Backgrounder
What Is Hezbollah?
![<p> Hezbollah militants parade through Beirut’s southern suburb.</p>]()
![<p>Cartoon in reaction to the Zimmermann Telegram published in The Evening Star, March 4, 1917 in Washington D.C.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>People sit on a pickup truck as they prepare to travel about 250 kilometers south to Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border, at a transport station in Tine, eastern Chad, on November 25, 2025. The movement comes amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stand together during a luncheon at the White House, March 31, 1955.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p><span class="TextRun SCXW63544548 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63544548 BCX0">Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.</span></span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![TL_2014_Maidan]()
By CFR Editors![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">Photograph of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">President Woodrow Wilson address</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0"> a joint session of Congress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0"> by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">Harris & Ewing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">.</span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">March 4, 2025.</span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p><span class="TextRun SCXW239570326 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW239570326 BCX0">The White House on October 31, 2004.</span></span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman gestures to crowd during an election campaign rally.]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p><span class="TextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">An 1898 illustration </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">of the U.S.S. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">Maine</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">exploding </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">Havana </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">harbor.</span></span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay
