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The battle for hegemony in the Middle East is playing out at an ancient African port where traditional dhow fishing boats now share space with giant, container ships loaded around the clock by men in yellow high-visibility vests.
The battle for hegemony in the Middle East is playing out at an ancient African port where traditional dhow fishing boats now share space with giant container ships loaded around the clock by men in yellow high-visibility vests.
The U.S. Institute of Peace is deeply saddened by the loss of Frank C. Carlucci III, who died on June 3 at the age of 87. A former secretary of defense, Carlucci, together with his wife Marcia, was an early and steadfast supporter of the U.S. Institute of Peace and its mission to prevent violent conflict around the world.
It was National Security Adviser John Bolton who had pressed for a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un akin to what the United States got in 2003 from Muammar Qaddafi. Under the so-called Libyan model, Mr. Kim would have to give up his nuclear program lock, stock, and barrel. But all the talk of applying...
As he prepares to meet North Korea's leader, President Trump has held out the prospects of working on a peace treaty to end the Korean war. What would that mean for the U.S.-South Korea alliance and troops' presence on the peninsula?
Days ahead of the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, two former top U.S. advisers urge the president not to give up crucial demands during the high-stakes meeting in Singapore
Rarely in modern in history has there been a summit with higher stakes and greater uncertainty over its outcome than the planned meeting in Singapore a week from now between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump.
The process to rid North Korea of its decades-old nuclear weapons program could take at least ten years, an expert from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) told a Senate panel on Tuesday, acknowledging that the extent of the regime’s atomic capabilities remains unknown.
A president who prides himself on being unpredictable is scrambling his way toward one of the hardest-to-figure events in diplomatic history. Less than a week before President Trump is scheduled to sit down with Kim Jong Un, it's difficult to tell what to expect from the first meeting between the president of the United States and the leader of North Korea.
With a budding arsenal of cyberweapons and a growing number of digital warriors, North Korea can allegedly shutdown websites. Alter bank records thousands of miles away. Cancel the release of a Hollywood movie.