Richard Downie, Center for Strategic and International Studies. "This is a proud country with a professional military and intelligence service and sometimes they accept things and sometimes they don't," says Carson, who is now with the U.S. Institute ...  

Mr. Jarba used a speech on Wednesday at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington to reintroduce himself to the American public, portraying himself as a moderate who represented a viable alternative to Qaeda-linked militants and Mr. Assad.  

"We want weapons," Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said during an appearance at the United States Institute of Peace Wednesday, his first public address in Washington, D.C.. "And we commit to keeping them in the right hands." Jarba, the head of ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a shelling drill of an artillery sub-unit under Korean People's Army Unit 681 at undisclosed place in North Korea, in undated picture released on April 26, 2014. KCNA/AFP/Getty Images ...  

... energy and financial resources" the U.S. has spent in Africa over the last several decades and now to help resolve conflicts on the continents, said Johnnie Carson, a senior adviser to the United States Institute of Peace and former U.S. Assistant ...  

... from a boarding school -- a provocative attack that has drawn international outrage. To examine expectations for U.S. assistance, Jeffrey Brown talks to Jon Temin of the United States Institute of Peace and Heather Murdock of The Christian Science ...

The barrel bombs, a type of improvised explosive device dropped from Syrian helicopters and aircraft, are “making our life a nightmare,” Jarba said in an address at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. “So we want weapons that would be able to ...  

Speaking at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) without notes, Jarba, a slight, unprepossessing figure who comes from the northern Syrian city of Qamishli and is a member of the Shammar tribe with branches in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, sought to counter the ...