This Map Explains the Saudi-Iran Proxy War Here's what the region's geopolitical and sectarian divides look like. By Henry Johnson , an editorial fellow at Foreign Policy from 2015-2016.

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

But it’s the nature of proxy wars that proxies don’t always do their sponsor’s bidding. Hamas seems to have attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, without Iran’s permission.

Ukraine. Of Course Washington and Moscow Are Fighting a Proxy War That doesn't mean Russia is right. It means we're being honest about how much the U.S. is involved.

Three days before the Feb. 24 anniversary of his Ukraine invasion, Vladimir Putin outlined what he had learned during a year of war. With its ever-increasing supply of sophisticated weapons, Putin ...

“I want to do something if it’s possible, but for that to happen, it must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Conservative leader also controversially said Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting a ‘proxy war on behalf of the UK’ in Gaza against Hamas ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a Wednesday interview described the war in Ukraine as a proxy war between the United States and Russia, as he sought to explain on the Oval Office blowup last week… ...