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Russia Offers a Carrot to Embattled Syrian Rebels
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More than 2,000 rebels who had been fighting the Syrian army abandoned their positions along a rocky outcrop here and surrendered their heavy weaponry to Russian officers in J...
By Nicholas Heras
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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
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For the next two months, as official Washington empties out into the hinterlands, D.C.-based think tanks should do the same. While members of Congress and their staffs switch ...
By Julianne Smith
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Technology & National Security
'Slaughterbots': U.S., Russia lead fight to block 'killer robots' banIn Geneva, it’s the big guy versus the little guy. And the big guy has robots on his side. More than two dozen nations are using a key United Nations meeting this week to push...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Too big to sanction? U.S. struggles with punishing large Russian businesses.
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When the Treasury Department imposed tough sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his companies in April, the fallout for the Putin ally was fast and fierce. Western...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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China extends Uighur crackdown beyond its borders
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After years of persecution by Chinese police, Uighur businessman Mehmet fled his home in northern Xinjiang for neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, only to be harassed by Kyrgyz police an...
By Abigail Grace
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The September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Robert D. Kaplan's ‘Earning the Rockies’
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We’re excited to announce that “Earning the Rockies” by Robert D. Kaplan is our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.” “Earning the Roc...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Trump called off top U.S. diplomat’s Pyongyang visit after belligerent letter from North Korea: report
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The White House last week canceled a planned trip to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, just hours before the top U.S. diplomat was due to leave, after receiving a b...
By Duyeon Kim
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A void to fill: Champion of military gone from the national, international stage
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As a plane carrying a congressional delegation arrived in Iraq in August 2003, the aircraft was forced to make a corkscrew landing to avoid surface-to-air missiles. The lawmak...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘Resolute in his beliefs, even pugnacious’: McCain remembered as tough on military brass
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It didn’t matter how many stars were on their epaulets. It didn’t matter what heroic acts they had performed on the battlefield. When Sen. John McCain was questioning the nat...
By Richard Fontaine
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Unified Korean Team, Victor on the Court, Tries to Win Hearts, Too
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When North and South Korea fielded a joint women’s ice hockey team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the decision turned out to be more symbolic than practical: The team lo...
By Duyeon Kim
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Trump’s Cancellation of Pompeo Trip Dashes Hopes in South Korea
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The past few days have been a roller-coaster ride for President Moon Jae-in of South Korea. On Thursday, the United States secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced that he ...
By Duyeon Kim
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What does North Korea want from the US?
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Less than three months after the pomp and ceremony of the Singapore summit, relations between the US and North Korea are stuttering and the point of contention is clear: Pyong...
By Duyeon Kim
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North Korea is still developing nuclear weapons, says IAEA
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North Korea is continuing to develop its nuclear weapons programme, according to a report by the UN atomic watchdog, raising questions over the country’s commitment to denucle...
By Duyeon Kim
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Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers“The navy was something I always wanted to do, ever since I saw the Blue Angels as a little kid,” Chief Petty Officer Sarah Sardinha tells me. “I knew I wanted to work on figh...
By Kayla M. Williams
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South China Sea militarization part of larger Chinese challenge to U.S. power
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Tensions are rising in the South China Sea as China builds up military resources in contested waters and the United States Navy asserts its presence in the region, but experts...
By Daniel Kliman
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China: We Might Help Assad With the War in Syria
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China has long avoided entangling itself in direct military conflict abroad. But the Chinese ambassador to Syria last week suggested that China is considering doing just that ...
By Abigail Grace
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Technology & National Security
Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the militaryMore than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill. This follows G...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The General Is a Robot: Artificial Intelligence Goes to WarN THE 1970 science fiction film “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” the United States decides to turn over control of its strategic arsenal to Colossus, a massive supercomputer. B...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Hackers Already Attacking Midterm Elections, Raising U.S. AlarmsThe U.S. midterm elections are at increasing risk of interference by foreign adversaries led by Russia, and cybersecurity experts warn the Trump administration isn’t adequatel...
By Kara Frederick & Michael Sulmeyer
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Why US talks with the Taliban are suddenly on the table
The United States has a lot invested in Afghanistan: a longer war than both world wars and its intervention in Vietnam combined, more than $2 trillion, and more than 2,370 ser...
By Nicholas Heras
