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.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is vowing to build "the world's most powerful" nuclear arsenal mere weeks after conducting tests of multiple short-range ballistic missiles and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported the leader's...
he armed group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has announced the end of an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the government in June and issued orders to its fighters to carry out attacks across the country. “As military operations are...
Just five weeks after securing a precedent-breaking third term as China’s leader, Xi Jinping is facing the biggest wave of civil disobedience since he took power a decade ago, as thousands take to the streets in cities across China in protest of his stringent “COVID zero” restrictions. From Guangzhou...
'All Ukrainian territory should be free of Russians. All Ukrainian territory. Donbas and Crimea should all be free of Russian forces. It doesn't have to all happen exactly at the same time. Right now, forces are being pushed out of Donetsk and Luhansk. There are attacks into Crimea. The military dynamic will determine how fast and in what order the Russians are pushed out of all of Ukraine. Sooner or later I think the Russians will all be out of...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor joins Chris Jansing to discuss the growing number of war crimes inflicted by Russia in Ukraine. “There are war crimes taking place every day,” says Taylor. “This is terrorist activity. This is actually an attempt by the Russians to wipe out the Ukrainians, to...
In her distress, she sought counseling in March from an Afghan women’s NGO. When staffers saw her bloodied face, they knew something was wrong. But when they asked her what happened, she said she had only “fallen down,” and feared going to a doctor. After much urging, Karima...
Pakistan on Thursday announced the rise of a new army chief, a changing of the guard that many consider as crucial to Pakistani affairs as civilian political cycles and that comes at a moment of fierce debate over the military’s power in politics. After weeks of intense speculation and...
Ukrainian officials are pushing back against growing pressure to enter negotiations with Moscow even as relentless Russian airstrikes take a mounting toll on Ukrainian lives, wealth and infrastructure. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, dismissed...
Three scammers sat in a room in Poipet, Cambodia, watching the drama unfold on screen. They had just tricked a man into transferring 235,000 baht (over 6,500 dollars), his life savings, to them. Leading the scam was Kai (not his real name), a Thai teenager; next to him was his Chinese employer, and between them a Thai...
The Biden administration is working to reassure the Ukrainian government, outside experts, and former US officials that it will not push Ukraine to imminently seek a diplomatic outcome to the war with Russia after the most senior US general publicly pushed for a more urgent diplomatic effort this winter. The administration is...