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Sarhang Hamasaeed on Iraq’s Government Formation
Four months after Iraq held elections, a new government has yet to form as the majority Shia factions remain divided. Sarhang Hamasaeed discusses the...

Frank Aum on North Korea Negotiations
Since the Singapore Summit, Washington and Pyongyang have been mired in a stalemate over the sequencing of an end of war declaration and North...

Johnny Walsh on Peace in Afghanistan
Despite the Taliban’s failure to accept the Kabul government’s offer of another cease-fire this week, Johnny Walsh says that a political solution to the...

Payton Knopf on the Geopolitical Tensions in the Red Sea
Both the eastern and western shores of the Red Sea increasingly function as a common political and security arena in which the U.S. has...

Mona Yacoubian on Syria
As the Assad regime consolidates power across Syria, Mona Yacoubian says that regime change is increasingly unlikely seven years into the civil war. But,...

Susan Hayward on Advancing Religious Freedom
Following last week’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State, Rev. Susan Hayward discusses the worldwide uptick in religious discrimination...