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.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein will tackle security and economic co-operation on Wednesday in the first strategic dialogue between Baghdad and Washington since President Joe Biden entered office. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi was the first Arab leader to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been ramping up “hybrid warfare” operations in Ukraine and the Arctic in recent weeks in an early test of President Biden’s resolve, a build-up that many see as a way for the Russian leader to score points abroad while shoring up sagging polls at home. The build-up has proven especially alarming for...
A review of the 10 countries that yielded the most individuals affiliated with ISIS found varying levels of commitment to repatriation and prosecution. In the two years since the self-declared Islamic State lost its last physical stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, hundreds of foreign ISIS fighters, along with their wives and children, have remained in limbo...
Violent conflicts have been on the rise for the past 30 years and now face further escalation with the debilitating effects of COVID-19 on fragile states. Almost two-thirds of the globe’s most extremely impoverished people live in fragile and conflict-affected regions. Therefore, in order to ultimately end poverty, the most fragile states need to...
Many Lebanese have tales to tell of how they survived the largest explosion in the country’s history, a port blast right in the heart of Beirut that left 6,000 injured, at least 200 dead and 300,000 homeless. Sometimes it was a door frame that blocked deadly...
Elements of the Islamic State group are working to rebuild in western Syria, where the U.S. has little visibility or presence, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East warned on Wednesday. In the region west of the Euphrates River where the Syrian regime is in...
An agreement reached Thursday by the governments of Israel and the United Arab Emirates has the potential to alter the diplomatic dynamics of the Middle East drastically, but experts say the long-term consequences depend heavily on how it is implemented and how other...
Fawzia Koofi was lucky to survive with minor injuries when gunmen attacked her car in Kabul on Friday, just days before she was due to travel to Qatar’s capital Doha to take part in the Afghan government’s first direct talks with the Taliban. The former member of parliament, one of...
On Tuesday, a U.N.-backed international tribunal in The Netherlands will announce its verdict in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was killed in a roadside bombing with 21 others as his convoy passed along the Beirut waterfront on...