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U.S. military personnel wearing face masks arrive at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Extending soldiers’ assignments may help the military maintain readiness

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Armed Houthi followers ride on the back of a truck outside a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Saudi Arabia wants out of Yemen

Monday, April 13, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud and Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak are seen at the beginning of an OPEC and NON-OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

Brookings experts comment on oil market developments and geopolitical tensions

Samantha Gross, Bruce Riedel, Angela Stent, and Suzanne Maloney

Monday, April 13, 2020

Women are painting the names of victims of femicide in front of Mexicos National Palace before a massive march to protest gender-based violence and inequality on International Womens Day at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico on March 8, 2020. According to government statistics, at least ten women are murdered every day in Mexico, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for girls and women. Femicides rates have doubled in the past five years in Mexico. Impunity is a major problem, 90 percent of cases go unsolved. After a series of brutal femicides, activists called for a national womens strike. On March 9, thousands of women and girls across Mexico are expected to stay home from works, schools and social media sites, in a mass strike called "A Day Without Us" to protest a rising wave of violence against women and what many call an unresponsive government. (Photo by Bénédicte Desrus/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women

Vanda Felbab-Brown

April 10, 2020

On April 9, 2020, Vanda Felbab-Brown discussed “Is the War in Afghanistan Really Over?” via teleconference with the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Vanda Felbab-Brown

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REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR Captain Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, addresses the crew during an all-hands call on the ship’s flight deck in the eastern Pacific Ocean December 19, 2019. Picture taken December 19, 2019. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Why Crozier was correct

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Police officers wearing protective face masks stop a passenger to check his documents before entering the ferry station to go to Niteroi, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

How COVID-19 is changing law enforcement practices by police and by criminal groups

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

An elder carry a plastic container filled with water from a pipe in a street of a slum during a nationwide quarantine due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Caracas, Venezuela April 2, 2020. Picture taken April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero

When pandemics come to slums

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Paul H. Wise

Monday, April 6, 2020

A Medical Examiner's Office employee and a unit of National Guard members walk near refrigerated trailers used as morgues on East 3oth Street near the Office of the New York City Chief Medical Examiner as the city prepares for a surge of COVID-19 cases requiring medical treatment; in New York , NY, USA on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

We should prepare now to send US armed forces to help police in hard-hit areas

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Colonel Rick Fuentes, Paul Goldenberg, John Donohue, and John R. Allen

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Chinese customs officials carry sacks of pangolins scales they seized on a ship in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China November 29, 2017. Picture taken November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

What coronavirus means for online fraud, forced sex, drug smuggling, and wildlife trafficking

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, April 3, 2020