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August 2, 2021

Middle East and North Africa
Cracks Are Growing in the Erdogan Regime

Turkey is more politically unstable today than at any other point in recent years. 

June 22, 2023

Afghanistan
Our Biggest Errors in Afghanistan and What We Should Learn from Them

As a journalist, book author, and sometime adviser with frequent visits to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2015, I offer this distillation of lessons that we might learn from the United States’ longest …

An Afghan working in a U.S military base walks near half mast flags of United States, Afghanistan and Task Force Cacti after a U.S. Army officer was killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) during a patrol in Pesh Valley, at Forward Operating Base Joyce in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan March 18, 2012.

December 9, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Restrained South African Reaction to the Murder of Pierre Korkie

Pierre Korkie was a South African teacher working in Yemen, where his wife, Yolande, did hospital relief work. They were kidnapped by al-Qaeda operatives in May 2013. Yolande Korkie was released with…

Yemen al Qaeda

April 15, 2021

Middle East and North Africa
How Erdogan Got His Groove Back

It’s been a difficult and dizzying few months for Turkey—which is just the way the president likes it.