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The U.S. failure in Afghanistan also reflects the failure of Washington’s approach to Pakistan. Islamabad has been the Taliban’s most important foreign sponsor: it helped birth the group in the 1990s, then worked against the United States to enable its survival and resurgence. Today, prominent members of Pakistan’s security establishment are cheering the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul. Despite...
Afghanistan’s new rulers have rewarded Taliban veterans and hardliners with plum posts in the cabinet despite promising an inclusive government, but the choices could pose obstacles in the country getting Western recognition and aid. At least three members named in what was described as...
"The coup is always the beginning of a series of instability. And that is what we will see in Guinea if we don't act quickly, strictly and assertively." @Josephsany1 VP of Africa Center @USIP discusses the #Guinea coup with @LyndaKinkade
The Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Gyang Buba, has called on Plateau youths and community leaders in Plateau to unite across ethnic and religious divides to end circle of killings in the state. Buba, who is the Chairman, Plateau Council of Chiefs and Emirs, made the call on Tuesday during an event organized by...
The first punch lands on the left side of the young man's face, the second on the right. Several more follow. Knees strike his stomach. He cannot defend himself, his hands are cuffed. His attacker, face outside the frame, has his fist wrapped in cloth. He drags his victim by the lapels into the middle of...
On March 23, 2020, with the deadly coronavirus reported in 167 countries and territories, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global ceasefire to support a public health response. It was the first global ceasefire appeal since the agency was founded in 1945, in the aftermath of...
It took the Association of Southeast Asian Nations nearly three months to convene a special meeting to discuss Myanmar’s February 1 coup. Then, a further three months elapsed before the bloc agreed on appointing Brunei’s senior diplomat Erywan Yusof as the special envoy to the violence-wracked nation. Now, some three weeks...
President Biden on Friday used his first meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel to underscore that working closely with a longstanding ally in the Middle East was still a focus of his administration, even as the crisis in Afghanistan has opened him up to criticism that he is ceding ground in...
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...