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January 22, 2016

Pakistan
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of January 22, 2016

Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Ariella Rotenberg, Ayumi Teraoka, Gabriel Walker, and James West look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Terrorists kill twenty-one in attack on Pakistani univer…

Bacha-Khan-protest
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound Asia Unbound

March 2, 2006

Pakistan
Pakistan’s Security Situation

As President Bush heads to Pakistan, security in the Islamic nation is a primary issue. Under President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan has made strides to curb extremism and reform Islamic education. But…

Backgrounder by Esther Pan

December 29, 2014

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2014

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

World-Figures-Obituaries
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

June 6, 2011

United States
The True Threat of Terrorist Safe Havens

Afghan President Hamid Karzai presents U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates with the Ghazi Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan Medal, Afghanistan's highest governmental award, in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 4, …

The True Threat of Terrorist Safe Havens
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

January 28, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
The Push to Lift U.S. Communication Technology Sanctions on Sudan

This is a guest post by Aala Abdelgadir. Aala is a research associate for the Council on Foreign Relation’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative. After a year of collaboration with U.S. …

Locals and South Sudanese refugees play video games in a market near a camp 10 km (6 miles) from al-Salam locality at the border of Sudan's White Nile state, after arriving from Malakal and al-Rank war zones within South Sudan January 27, 2014.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition