International Crisis Group

October 18, 2023 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. offers $5 million reward for Shabaab’s deputy emir

The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Abukar Ali Adan, the deputy leader of Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in...

June 1, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Saudi normalization should not come at the expense of Israel’s top priority: Preventing a bad Iran deal

Israeli officials should insist on having the US trigger the snapback mechanism in the JCPOA to its fullest extent. This will make it possible to move forward with a Saudi-American-Israeli deal that also addresses Riyadh's nuclear demands. It will also open the door to joint Israeli-American action against the Iranian program.

September 19, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Varsha Koduvayur

Will Turkey’s Détente with Egypt and the Gulf Extend to the Horn of Africa?

Although the extent to which the climate of détente will affect the Horn is not certain, the relative calm offers a unique opportunity for Washington to claim leadership and prevent the kind of violent rivalry that proved disastrous in Syria and Libya.

February 28, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Black lives in Africa

No nation in Africa is receiving more attention right now than Wakanda. And why not since, as Anthony Lane writes in The New Yorker, Wakanda is “a model of serenity,” that also is &ld...

February 21, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Hopeless in Gaza

Gaza has been an unhappy place for a long time but the situation is now reportedly growing desperate. Jobs are scarce, electricity...

November 4, 2015 | Tony Badran |

Obama Licenses Iran To Ship Missiles to Hezbollah

The logical endgame of President Obama’s Iran policy and his “roundtable” approach to Syria has always been to offer American protection for Iranian mis...

November 19, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

Sweden’s Gaza Refugee Contradiction

Co-authored with Einat Wilf Sweden may not know it yet, but its recent recognition of the State of Palestine may conflict with its support for a United Nations Refugee organizat...

May 8, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?

Download the full written testimony here (PDF)....

May 8, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?

Download the full written testimony here (PDF)....

April 11, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Scare Tehran, Please

Is Barack Obama’s threat of preventive military action against the Iranian regime’s nuclear program credible? Would a one-year, six-month, or even three-month nuclear breakout capacit...

August 20, 2013 | Claudia Rosett |

North Korean-Syrian Chemistry: The Weapons Connections

Is North Korea complicit in the use of chemical weapons in Syria? For a host of reasons, this question ought to be high priority for the United Nations chemical weapons experts who finally arrive...

March 5, 2013 | Dawit Giorgis CNN |

Why We Should Be Watching the Gulf of Guinea

As Washington has assessed the implications of Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, a crisis has loomed in another critical maritime e...

November 19, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Brigades That Fire on Israel Are Showing a New Discipline

From the time he was a boy, Ali al-Manama dreamed of joining the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic...

September 19, 2011 | |

Showdown at the United Nations

The Israeli-Palestinian clash comes to Turtle Bay.

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review

Winds of War Blow Along Ethiopia-Eritrea Border

Two months ago in this column space, I warned that "a little-known border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia is rapidly escalating and threatens to not only the peace of the neighborhood,...

June 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

What’s at Stake in Sudan’s Abyei

In this column space three months ago, I warned that the tensions were so heightened that the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended the decades of civil war between the Arab-domin...

February 24, 2011 | World Defense Review

Somali Piracy Hits America: Some Questions in Need of Answers

The murder earlier this week by their captors of four United States citizens aboard the SV Quest, a yacht hijacked last Friday off the coast of Oman, brought home to America the increasing toll o...

February 1, 2011 | J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Somalia in Need of New Approach Two Decades after State Collapse

Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the night when Mohamed Siyad Barre, president of the last entity that could plausibly be described as the government of Somalia, fled Mogadishu in hi...

November 25, 2010 | |

From North Korea, Lessons About Syria

Commenting on North Korea’s newly revealed uranium enrichment facility, and its subsequent unprovoked shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, former US president Jimmy Carter off...

September 30, 2010 | World Defense Review

A Subtle, But Significant, Shift in U.S. Somali Policy Opens the Door to Realism

Last Friday, speaking in New York to reporters one day after attending a major meeting on Somalia chaired by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the margins of the 65th session the Un...