For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the annual Victory Day celebration on May 9, commemorating the Soviet ...

HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER is a Senior Fellow in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in ...

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

SOPHIA BESCH is Senior Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Between 2021 and 2024, the number of reported recruits rose roughly 1,000 percent, from 36 children to more than 450. This ...