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.
The Biden administration has strongly condemned North Korea's attempt to launch a military satellite, calling on other countries to decry the move that resulted in panic across South Korea. "The United States strongly...
Washington strongly condemned the attempted launch of North Korea's first military spy satellite, a device that Pyongyang says it needs to monitor joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. "With each and every one of these launches, whether it fails or succeeds, Kim Jong Un...
The crew, including China's first civilian astronaut, will overlap briefly with three now aboard the Tiangong station, who will then return to Earth after completing their six-month mission...
A former top Africanist at the State Department, Carson returned to government service in December to serve as President Joe Biden’s point man for delivering on the promises of his US-Africa Leaders Summit...
Just hours after Russia launched one of its largest drone and missile attacks on Kyiv, President Zelenskyy honored U.S. service members, saying their bravery is “the basis for the future of their nation.” Former...
The US has accelerated its security and cooperation agreements in the Indo-Pacific region in recent months, renewing strong ties to the Philippines, enhancing cooperation with Australia, and negotiating...
CNN’s Fred Pleitgen takes viewers to Ukraine as the city of Dnipro is reeling from a deadly airstrike that killed two and injured dozens. Retired Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton and Former US Ambassador of Ukraine William Taylor discuss the developments...
Bill Robinson of Lenoir City, Tennessee, remembers being put in a hole filled with water at the bottom. It was small enough in height to prevent sitting and standing up straight. Robinson once endured this for four days. With mosquitoes breeding around him. His experience marked one of the torturous...
Competing claims have left uncertainty over who was behind a cross-border attack in the Belgorod region of Russia this week, a situation one former Marine colonel says Ukraine stands to benefit from in the war. Moscow blamed the raid that began Monday and ended Tuesday on Ukrainian...
Haiti has actively participated in international organizations by being a founding member of the Editorial Board of the Declaration of Human Rights and also of the United Nations. Inspired by the liberal values of the French Revolution (1789), it was the first country to abolish slavery in the...