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Dueling diplomatic downgrades by NATO and the Kremlin have brought relations to their lowest levels in recent memory. Teri Schultz looks at the implications for both sides.

Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?

The Afghan Taliban are, in large part, a creation of Pakistans intelligence service, the ISI, which through the course of the war nurtured and protected Taliban assets inside Pakistan.

The real winner of the Afghan war? It’s not who you think

There are reasons why rational nuclear latent states often want to stay non-nuclear. As Iran’s next leader, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, signals a hardening of Tehran’s foreign policy, negotiations in Vienna over the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), may have an even slimmer chance of an agreement that would strengthen it. After former President Donald Trump removed the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018 and reinstated harsh economic sanc...

A new high-level global commission, which includes representatives from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), has been formed to (...)

Congress should play a leading a role in steering the United States toward a strategically prudent and responsible missile defense policy—one that maximizes U.S. national security interests while averting an unnecessary nuclear arms race at a time when conventional challenges loom large.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  The Biden administration’s North Korea policy is quietly radical in its acknowledgment that U.S. and allied security might be improved short of total denuclearization. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Check your email for details on your request. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has concluded its North Korea policy review and offered the public a glimpse of i...

‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.”

Representative Image Will the sabotage at the Natanz nuclear facility harm both Irans nuclear program and the JCPOA? ANI | Updated: Apr 19, 2021 12:05 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus], April 19 (ANI): A day after the Iranian government unveiled its new uranium enrichment centrifuges in the Natanz nuclear plant, on April 11 the facility was sabotaged by an explosion causing damage both to the central power and the emergency power cable as well as to an u...