Defense & Security

Turkish and American soldiers stand near a former YPG military point during a joint U.S.-Turkey patrol, near Tel Abyad, Syria September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said

Al Tanf garrison: America’s strategic baggage in the Middle East

Daniel L. Magruder Jr.

Friday, November 20, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

What Ethiopia’s crisis means for Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, November 20, 2020

A group of Ukrainian officers enter the U.S. OC-135B observation aircraft at a military base near Kiev June 23. The U.S. military mission arrived in Ukraine for a two-day series of overflights using both American and Ukrainian observation aircrafts according to "The Open Skies Treaty " signed in 1992 between member states of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact.YK/FMS

The looming US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks after a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Turkey, November 17, 2020. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

Repairing the rift with Turkey

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Al Qaeda's elusive leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, U.S. President Barack Obama said on May 1, 2011. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

The death of Ayman al-Zawahri and the future of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

BEIJING, CHINA.- The president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in (left) and the president of China, Xi Jinping, shake hands before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 23, 2019 .

China’s gambit on the Korean Peninsula

November 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo SEARCH "GLOBAL POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2019 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

First things first: US-Korea policy in the Biden administration

Jonathan D. Pollack

November 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S President Donald Trump returns to the White House after news media declared Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

A nuclear strike should require more than one person’s order

Friday, November 13, 2020

Prospects for US-South Korea cooperation in an era of US-China strategic competition

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