War

Amman should reannex the West Bank to end Israel’s illegal occupation, bring peace and prosperity, and give Palestinians democratic rights.

Here are three steps the Biden administration can take today.

Even as other domains of policy diversify, peacemaking is still left almost entirely to men.

Baku and Yerevan are not members of the International Criminal Court. That means an independent international investigation is needed to ensure accountability for atrocities.

The war on terror is a constitutional aberration. The U.S. legislature must reclaim its war powers from an overempowered executive branch.

Supporting anti-Taliban fighters will spark a return to civil war, antagonize Pakistan, and draw the United States back into a conflict it sought to put behind it.

The Afghan army’s collapse shows American forces are using the wrong approach.

Lawmakers raked Gen. Milley, Gen. McKenzie, and Defense Secretary Austin over the coals for the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan.

A similar rapid collapse of state institutions awaits if Somali elites and Western governments don’t alter their approach.

A U.N. peacekeeping mission could help avert civil war.

Turkish airstrikes in Syria have escalated over the last month as the world concentrates on a different crisis.

Social scientists helped win World War II by judging enemy morale. But in Afghanistan, the U.S. kept getting it wrong.

Attempts to explain Berlin’s militarism tells us something about how analysts approach Beijing.

Stefano Pontecorvo spent his childhood in Kabul. Sixty years later, he coordinated the evacuation of 124,000 people before saying goodbye to the city himself.

But Benny Gantz also threatens military action if Tehran develops nukes.

Incompetent U.S. forces did more harm than help for South Korea’s path to democracy.

The agency has a long history of extracting people from danger zones.

Engaging with a Taliban government will be painful. Washington will have to do it anyway.

The leader of the Afghan anti-Taliban resistance vows to battle in the encircled Panjshir Valley to keep alive his father’s dream.