Last week, the 2025 Aspen Security Forum brought together top national security voices, experts, business leaders, and innovators from across the political spectrum and around the globe.

The 2025 Aspen Security Forum kicked off last night in Aspen, CO! We are pleased to share some of the highlights from the opening night below.

Next week, the 2025 Aspen Security Forum kicks off! We are thrilled to welcome an array of decision-makers and thought leaders from Washington, DC and around the world to discuss the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges of our time.

This week, the Quad foreign ministers met in Washington, the United States halted significant weapons shipments to Ukraine, Iran suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Thai Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.

This week, the White House brokered an Israel-Iran ceasefire deal, NATO leaders met in The Hague and committed to a 5% of GDP defense spending target, the U.S. and China announced a trade framework agreement, and Rwanda and DR Congo signed a peace agreement in Washington.

This week, President Trump stated he would decide whether to directly involve the U.S. military in the Israel-Iran conflict within two weeks, the G7 met in Canada, Russia launched the year’s deadliest missile attack on Kyiv, and Rwanda and the DR Congo drafted a peace deal.

This week, Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities and killed top military officials, the U.S. and China announced a trade agreement, over 290 people died in an Air India plane crash, and tensions escalated surrounding anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.

This week, Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on Russian military airbases and Russia retaliated with a major air attack, President Trump spoke by phone with President of China Xi Jinping, NATO defense ministers gathered in Brussels, and Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as president of South Korea.

This week, an appeals court temporarily reinstated President Trump’s tariffs, ASEAN held its first-ever summit with China and six Gulf Cooperation Council countries in Kuala Lumpur, defense leaders convened in Singapore to kick off the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, and a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center was overrun in Rafah.