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Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the promise -- and reaping growing criticism over the grim results that are unfolding in Afghanistan. The U.S.-trained Afghan military is shrinking back as Taliban insurgents...
For many years, political scientists and other experts on Russia—from the United States, Europe and Russia itself—have disagreed on the prospects for Russia's policies toward the United States, and the West more broadly, after Vladimir Putin is no longer president. Views in this simmering debate run the gamut...
Against the odds, there is once again movement toward negotiations in Venezuela’s forever-crisis. Last month, Venezuela’s two presidents —Nicolás Maduro, who claimed victory in deeply flawed elections in 2018, and Juan Guaidó, the young National Assembly president who assumed the...
President Joe Biden is sending about 3,000 U.S. troops to Kabul to help evacuate more diplomats from the U.S. embassy, underscoring just how badly the U.S. has been caught off-guard by the speed of the Taliban’s advance across Afghanistan as American forces withdraw. The State Department is...
The Pentagon is sending roughly 3,000 American troops to Kabul to help evacuate many of the U.S. Embassy employees there. This comes as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan just before U.S. troops officially withdraw. “We believe this is the prudent thing to do given the rapidly deteriorating...
Local teacher Haydee Rodriguez of El Centro has been chosen as the first teacher in California to participate in the US Institute of Peace’s (USIP) Peace Teacher’s Program, representing the entire West Coast this school year in the prestigious nationwide program. Rodriguez — a Central Union High School...
As Americans’ eyes remain fixated on the final collapse of the U.S. nation-building project in Afghanistan, people across the Greater Middle East are reflecting on a decade of disappointed hopes that followed the eruption of popular uprisings 10 years ago. In 2011, the Arab Spring...
ABC News’ Kenneth Moton reports on the deadly conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, and how Ethiopian Americans are responding to the humanitarian crisis.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived in Washington amid the United States’ final act in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden clarified that he wished to move forward with the plan to complete the US withdrawal from the country by August 31 – just six days away...
This article presents a comparative analysis of the political transitions occurring in neighbours Ethiopia and Sudan since 2018. To date, these political transitions have largely been analysed independently. While the transition in Sudan is often characterised as a revolution, events in Ethiopia are not usually so described. However...