War & Peace

If we're going to make good decisions about conflict, we need nonviolence A through Z.

The US underestimated the IS and overestimated the ability of the Iraq military to fend off the militant group IS.

Afghanistan's new vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum is one of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords, once described by Ghani himself as a “known killer.”

The Syria Civil Defense began as a collective of ordinary civilians - once tailors, teachers and construction workers before the uprising began - responding to local bombings, attempting to …

For rebels it is a two-front war.

Continual attention to non-state terrorism helps justify state power.

The public is sold the idea of the need for violence to cure the world's ills, despite our responsibility for creating those ills.

There's a lesson here about folly, if only we would care to draw it.

We wish to see a US foreign policy based on true humanitarianism and real diplomacy based on mutual respect, guided by international law, and dedicated to human rights and …

Pentagon officials are openly acknowledging that the military campaign in Syria and Iraq could take years to succeed.