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Afghanistan faces a "Saigon moment" of comprehensive defeat with the Taliban taking over Kabul after the withdrawal of US and Nato troops, leading politicians and academics have warned. As 10,000 allied troops prepare to leave the country after 20 years combating the insurgency, there are growing fears...
President Biden has announced that the United States will withdraw all remaining military forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021 — likely marking a definitive end to America’s longest war just months before its two-decade anniversary. The decision fundamentally changes...
Protesters returned to the streets of Mandalay last Saturday, stamped on the flag of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and then burned it. A student leader in Myanmar's second-largest city said opponents of the junta, the State Administration Council, will...
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) has chosen the following teachers to participate in the Institute’s 2021-2022 Peace Teachers Program: Jessica Culver of Ozark High School in Ozark, Arkansas; Haydee Rodriguez of Central Union High School in El Centro, California; Erin Sullivan of Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington, Delaware; David Pearl of Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine; Matthew Morrison of International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Kim Warren of Utah International Charter School in Salt Lake City, Utah.
he horrors of the "reeducation camps" for Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of northwest China are now coming to light, thanks to an independent tribunal now meeting in London. The stories the center's "students" are telling are not for the faint of heart. Speaking to...
Biden administration officials say they are not pushing to add other countries to the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia “Quad” group but stress that the future of American policy in the Indo-Pacific region hinges on the deepening alignment among...
Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS this week, its new mobile operating system. The company was forced to build its own in-house OS after the Trump administration banned it from accessing key U.S. technologies including Alphabet’s Android. While Harmony is widely derided...
Joseph N. Sany is the Vice President of the newly established Africa Center. For the past 20 years, Joseph has been working on peacebuilding with civil society, governments, businesses and international organizations in Africa. Prior to joining USIP...
Sudan has overcome a major hurdle in its path toward massive debt relief that could see nearly 90% of the country’s debt burden cleared over the coming years. The announcement by the International Monetary Fund means Khartoum is now able to get loans, along with international aid and development...
Scott Worden is director of Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace joining me with his perspective on where things stand in Afghanistan. So let's talk a little Afghanistan ... where do with stand on the force withdrawal?