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.
Andrew Wilder, the vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace's Center for South and Central Asia, has more hope for the bilateral aspect of Ghani's trip than for the Istanbul Process itself. In traveling to China, Ghani wanted “tangible commitments ...
US Institute of Peace Centre for South and Central Asia vice president Andrew Wilder says, "One of President Ghani's biggest asks of the Chinese had been for them to use their influence to try and convince its 'all weather friend' Pakistan to restrain ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that Afghanistan's national unity government could continue beyond September, a step that could irk the opposition even as he attempts to avert a brewing political crisis.
The U.S. military launched a drone strike against Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour on Saturday, the Pentagon said, dealing a potential blow to the group whose insurgent assaults pose a major obstacle to U.S. hopes for ending the war in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military conducted an airstrike inside Pakistan that likely killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, amounting to a potentially significant blow to a militant group that has become resurgent recently against Afghan and coalition forces, U.S. officials said Saturday.
President Obama announced Wednesday that he will keep roughly 3,000 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than previously announced – prolonging America’s role in a war that already has lasted more than a decade. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
While President Obama's decision to keep 8,400 troops in Afghanistan is seen by some critics as a sign of political failure, it is being endorsed as a crucial necessity by a range of U.S. experts and former officials, including a long list of former ambassadors and senior generals who served in Afghanistan.
President Obama will hand off the 15-year-old war in Afghanistan to a third president, he said Wednesday, acknowledging that he will fall short of his campaign-era promise to extract the U.S. from punishing ground wars overseas.
Stephen J. Hadley, the U.S. national security adviser from 2005 to 2009, is chair of the United States Institute of Peace board of directors. Andrew Wilder is the organization’s vice president for South and Central Asia programs.
But for the moment, though the ISIS threat should not be disregarded, it is not Afghanistan's biggest problem, says Andrew Wilder of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a longtime expert on Afghanistan. "The threat right now is very much the Taliban," says ...