On January 3, 2026, American aircraft struck targets across Caracas while special operations teams seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flew both to New York on narcotics and weapons charges. President Donald Trump posted that the...

It must be said at the outset that what follows is necessarily speculative. There is no evidence that Washington has decided to back Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), much less that such a policy shift is imminent. But enough developments involving the RSF, the...