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April 19, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Donald Trump Declines to Fight Aid to Ukraine

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Donald Trump has chosen to stand aside as the House of Representatives moves to vote on aid to Ukra…

Ukraine war image

August 30, 2023

Colombia
Petro’s Total Peace Plan Turns One: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Petro’s peace plan is neither a total failure nor a total success, for now.

Photo of Colombian Government and ELN Negotiators

November 2, 2015

China
China’s Role in Myanmar’s Dangerous Jade Trade

Gabriel Walker is a research associate in Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. In late October, Global Witness released an important report that systematically explored Myanmar’s jade i…

Jade-trade-11-2-15

March 26, 2021

Women and Women's Rights
Biden-Harris Should Lead on Women’s Rights and Help End Syrian Conflict

Including the SDF-held Northeast in the UN peace talks would be a way to accomplish both.

Female YPJ fighters celebrate Newroz with civilian women in Qamishli, Syria in 2016.

October 13, 2020

Syria
Despite Ceasefire Agreement, Turkey Implicated In More Than Eight Hundred Violations

Amy Austin Holmes is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. One year ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prom…

Smoke rises above the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, as seen from Turkey, on October 13, 2019.

March 21, 2023

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Limps Toward Elections

An impenetrable electoral process in Zimbabwe breeds cynicism in the next generation of voters, to the peril of democracy efforts.  

Stepping out of a green transport bus, members of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change in Zimbabwe arrive at the Magistrates court after being arrested for unlawful gathering.