Peace picks November 15-20

9 years ago

Global Security Forum 2015| Monday, November 16th | 9:30 - 10:45 | CSIS | REGISTER TO ATTEND | Join the…

Better, but Assad’s fate is still unclear

9 years ago

Friday's Vienna meeting of what is now being called the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) took a step or two…

Remember Paris

9 years ago

The pundit world will spend the next week debating what went wrong to allow the Paris attacks to happen and…

A good news Balkans story

9 years ago

The news from the Balkans these days is often bad: economic stagnation, interethnic friction, rampant corruption, Russian mischief-making, political stalemate.…

Beware the monopoly of power

9 years ago

To many in the West, the Kurds have long seemed the sanest group left in Syria, as well as the…

Syrian civil society in wartime

9 years ago

On Friday, the Atlantic Council hosted Syrian civil society activist Raed Fares to discuss 'Fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda through Syrian…

Kurdistan under pressure

9 years ago

I enjoyed a couple of hours serving on a panel this morning with Kurdistan Regional Government Representative in Washington Bayan…

Peace picks November 9-13

9 years ago

War or Peace? the Gulf States and Russia's Intervention in Syria | Monday, November 9th | 12:00-1:30 | Arab Gulf States Institute…

Defending your right to say it

9 years ago

Friends in Serbia have informed me of the latest blowup there over press freedom. The Adria Media Group, which owns…

The nine lives of Erdoğan

9 years ago

The day after the Turkish parliamentary elections last Sunday, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel to discuss the results, ‘Turkey’s…