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.
The agreement just signed between the United States and the Taliban is an important first step in a complex negotiation to end the war in Afghanistan. Under its terms, the Taliban agrees not to fund, train or otherwise support, within the territory it controls, any...
The Afghan Taliban’s deputy leader Siraj Haqqani published an op-ed last week in The New York Times professing commitment to ending the war in Afghanistan peacefully. Backlash among Americans and Afghans came quickly, with many questioning why...
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will lead a U.S. delegation to Qatar to oversee the signing of a peace agreement Saturday between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic group ousted by American forces after the Sept. 11...
On Saturday, the U.S. and the Taliban will sign a provisional peace deal after nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan. The milestone agreement comes after a largely successful reduction in violence over the past week. But even as hope surrounds...
Peace talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government could ease tensions over a drawn-out election drama in Afghanistan, where, after nearly two decades of U.S.-led war and reconstruction efforts, a stable democracy has yet to take shape. The talks...
Pentagon correspondents who kept their translation headsets on while South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo spoke on Monday heard two interpretations of just how far apart the sides are on reaching a cost-sharing agreement that helps protect...
The humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached a "horrifying new level," according to a U.N. official. That's how Mark Lowcock, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, described conditions in northwest Syria...
Maher Daboul tries to collect money to help, however he can, the people who have fled, who camp under trees or live in makeshift tents. He writes, too. He does this because he wants to complete his novel before something bad happens. The fear that...
Enough already. It is time to stop debating whether the United States stands at the threshold of a “new Cold War” with China. The question has become an obsession among China watchers and foreign policy analysts. But the debate’s poorly defined nature...
When ISIS took over the Nineveh plains in northern Iraq in 2014, terrorized Christian residents fled in fear of their lives. Six years later, despite liberation from ISIS, many...