Gayle Tzemach Lemmon examines what Hamid Karzai's request for international aid until 2030—well past the 2014 date on which U.S. troops are scheduled to exit—means for Afghan women.

Vice President Joe Biden gave these remarks in Baghdad, Iraq on December 1, 2012.

Stephen M. Walt views America's decline as a global power as an opportunity to rebalance international burdens and focus on domestic concerns.

Linda Robinson outlines six steps for Afghanistan to take charge of its own war.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says Afghan women share Americans' desire to end the longest U.S. war, but a peace that leaves women out will not last.

This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.

This six-part series from the Army Times looks at U.S. military operations in the Horn of Africa after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Max Boot argues that U.S. troops can win in Afghanistan, but the major battleground is in Washington.

This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.

This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.

This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.

Rich Morin examines the challenges faced by U.S. veterans who have been injured while serving in the military, based off survey results from 1,835 male and female veterans.

As regional players meet in Istanbul to pledge support for building a stable Afghanistan, analysts caution against overstating a regional solution given the conflicting interests of Kabul's neighbors.

Ray Takeyh states, "Iran may have been able to project its influence in an Iraq beset by civil war, but Tehran increasingly is on the margins as Iraq reconstitutes its national institutions."

The Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva on July 27, 1929. The convention was a result of World War I, and was signed by 47 governments.

The Convention on the Non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity was adopted by the UN General Assembly as resolution 2391 on November 26, 1968.

Max Boot says the end of the U.S. military mission in Iraq is not a triumph but a defeat for the United States.

The pullout of U.S. troops by year's end points to the troubling rift in Iraqi politics and big questions about the country's stability, writes CFR's Ned Parker.

President Obama gave these remarks, regarding the ending the combat mission in Iraq, on October 21, 2011.

This meeting was part of the Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series, which was organized by CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program.