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Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki has long coveted access to Ethiopia’s economy. His alliance with Abiy Ahmed will let him achieve his goals at the expense of Ethiopian sovereignty.

Four decades of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan have left South Asia transformed—and on the cusp of a realignment.

Abiy Ahmed depends on the support of ethnic Amhara leaders and militias whose goal is to reconquer what they consider lost territories—from Tigray to Sudan.

Losing a war has reopened old wounds in a battered nation.

The war in Afghanistan needed to wind down. But Washington is learning the wrong lesson.

Here’s how the Biden administration can prevent chaos in Afghanistan, even after it withdraws.

A full withdrawal from Afghanistan is a costly blunder and failure of leadership.

The United States’ withdrawal may be a balm domestically. It’s anything but for those that lived through the horror.

A new book argues that Churchill’s famous folly was ultimately about food, fear, and free trade.

But will he really end the United States’ other open-ended conflicts?

After making the right call on withdrawal, the U.S. president better get ready for second-guessing.

Pulling out all U.S. troops is the administration’s risky plan to pressure Kabul and the Taliban to make peace.

The move will finally end the United States’ longest war.

Unless it changes tack, the administration is about to make bad situations even worse.

Wesley Morgan’s “The Hardest Place” is embedded reporting at its finest.

A close reading of the philosophical career, and influence, of France’s most ridiculed public intellectual.

Existing conflicts with ethnic groups add fuel to the fire.

A survivor of regime atrocities explains why the international community must act.