AP has published the Syria cease-fire deal that the US government refused to make public. It is instructive, even though the cessation…
At a roundtable discussion in Washington DC earlier this week, knowledgeable people discussed the local reconciliation and evacuation strategies applied to besieged areas…
Middle East Institute summer interns put this together: Have faith! There is middle ground.
The Syrian government side ended the still-born ceasefire the Russians and Americans initiated last week with a bang: a double…
The extraordinary exchange of charges and countercharges between US UN Ambassador Samantha Power and Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin Saturday…
Central Asian Fighters in Syria: Classification, Factors, Scale Assessment | Monday, September 19th | 9am – 10.30am | Elliot School…
Vladimir Filipović of Belgrade daily Blic asked some questions for a special edition celebrating the newspaper's 20th anniversary. I replied: 1. As…
I enjoyed 90 minutes today with SAIS's Mike Lampton and CSIS's Michael Green commenting on Amitai Etzioni's Foreign Policy: Thinking Outside…
Yesterday, the Woodrow Wilson Center convened three experts to discuss the viability of a Kurdish state in Northern Iraq and…
Secretary of State Kerry asked the key question about the Syria ceasefire on NPR this morning: "What's The Alternative?" He had none,…