Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
Over the past time, in the spirit of “forgetting the past, looking to the future,” Vietnam and the U.S. have taken various effective and practical measures to heal the wounds of war. However, experts have evaluated that those efforts are not enough as around 3 million Vietnamese people are still being affected by...
The first punch lands on the left side of the young man’s face, the second on the right. Several more follow. Knees strike his stomach. He cannot defend himself, his hands are cuffed. His attacker, face outside the frame, has his fist wrapped in cloth. He drags his victim by the lapels into the middle of the frame...
What do Bill Clinton and Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain have in common? They’ve both talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week as Ukrainian and Russian forces exchange blows at a critical juncture in the war. "The United States helps us prevent Russia from freezing this conflict,” Zelensky told...
China’s largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan have not only raised regional tensions — they have also provided analysts with potential insight into how Chinese forces might operate around the self-ruled island in case of a conflict. At the same time, the multiday maneuvers, launched in retaliation for...
With Russia and China looming in the background, America’s top diplomat pitched a “new chapter” in U.S.-African relations on Monday, promising robust trade and calling for democracy despite political upheaval in much of the continent. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken insisted his five-day swing through...
As the Taliban has sought to present a kinder, gentler image to a skeptical outside world, its deputy leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, has often served as the movement’s public face. Given that his family name is synonymous with jihadi terrorism and he carries a $10 million price on his head from the U.S. government...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will launch a three-country tour of Africa on Sunday in South Africa. He is expected to deliver a major speech laying out the Biden administration's strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa. Experts tell VOA that human rights concerns will likely be high on the agenda. VOA's Senior...
Spreading false and alarming news and fomenting dissent against the army are the outlandish charges under which a Japanese journalist has been held in Myanmar. He was detained while covering an anti-junta protest in Yangon last weekend. He is one of over 140 journalists, including at least five foreign...
The Taliban government claimed in a statement it had “no information about Ayman al-Zawahiri’s arrival and stay in Kabul,” after the U.S. airstrike that killed the head of al Qaeda while he was on the balcony of a safehouse in central Kabul early Sunday morning. The multi-factioned group, already struggling to...
The first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine’s key Black Sea ports since the Russian invasion is expected to dock this week in Tripoli, Lebanon, the country where food inflation is the highest in the world, completing a test run for an international deal aimed at alleviating the global food crisis. The ship, carrying...