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February 16, 2021

Defense and Security
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses her new book, The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice. In an unlikely showdown in northeastern Syria in 2014, an all-female militia faced of…

Play Sawoushka Ahmed, a Kurdish female fighter stands with a gun in the majority-Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on April 14, 2013. In northern Syria, the Kurdish population has largely observed a careful compromise with regime and rebel forces, fighting alongside neither, in return for security and semi-autonomy over majority Kurdish areas, but there have been reports in recent weeks of Kurdish fighters joining the battle with Syrian rebels in certain areas.

November 17, 2016

United States
A Conversation With Adam Smith

Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) shares his outlook on Congress and U.S. foreign policy priorities for the next administration.

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November 14, 2013

Syria
A Conversation with Representative Adam Smith on Syria

Representative Smith discusses the current situation in Syria and U.S. policy options moving forward.

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June 17, 2014

United States
Congressman Smith Says United States Must 'Stand With the Oppressed'

Representative Christopher Smith joins Michael Mosettig of PBS to discuss the challenges of human rights policymaking and the importance of speaking out on behalf of the victims of abuse.

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April 27, 2015

Japan
Smith on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Visit to the United States

During his visit to the United States, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become the first Japanese leader to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. CFR Senior Fellow for Japanese Studies Shei…

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