The participants in the West Balkans conference pose for the group photo at the chancellery in Berlin on April 29, 2019.
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What can be the road ahead for Kosovo and Serbia under the EU patronage?
Police officers loyal to the Houthi rebels march during a military parade in Sanaa, Yemen in July 2017. The placards read: ‘Allah is the greatest. Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.’
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Political fallout from the Vietnam War gave Congress more power to control foreign affairs, but they have been reluctant to use it.
A waxwork of Captain America on display at Madame Tussauds in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Doping is condemned in sports. But what about in the military? Should soldiers be allowed or even encouraged to take drugs that make them superior fighters and more likely to complete a mission?
Sanctions are making life increasingly difficult for ordinary Iranians, such as those in Isfahan.
Doug Hostetter
Growing fears of a US conflict with Iran show why the kind of unilateral sanctions the Trump administration imposed last year don’t work.
Who will blink first?
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Trump’s embrace of bilateralism in trade relations has pernicious long-term consequences, including ratcheting up the odds of violent conflict.
Refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley.
Anaïs Ortega
In this difficult context, through different mechanisms, the artists engage with the consequences of war to restore social cohesion, stimulate imagination and revive hope.
A board for the Prussian wargame of ‘Kriegsspiel.’
Matthew Kirschenbaum/Wikimedia Commons
War games let you test your political and military acumen right at your kitchen table – while also helping you appreciate how decision-makers are limited by the choices of others.
Fatima, a nine-year-old Syrian refugee to Sweden, is featured in photojournalist Magnus Wennman’s documentary film Fatima’s Drawings.
Magnus Wennman
As ‘tiny historians of their age,’ children with testimonies of war provide teachers with both historical insight and critical instruction.
In Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, on February 26, 2019: a man holds the body of his daughter, killed in a bombardment by pro-Assad forces.
Anas Al-Dyab/AFP
Giving up means giving the Assad regime and Russia both a strategic and intellectual victory with incalculable consequences for global security.
A contractor walks between trucks returning from Iraq to Camp Arafjan in Kuwait, Dec. 16, 2011.
REUTERS/Caren Firouz
A new study looks at obituaries of private military contractors killed at war. The majority are white men with significant military experience.
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over southern Afghanistan.
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Civilian casualty counts are a powerful tool for propaganda – and for establishing peace.
Biafran refugees flee federal Nigerian troops on a road near Ogbaku, Nigeria in this 1968 photo. Between one and three million people are estimated to have died.
(AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf)
Nigerian poets and novelists have compared the Igbo massacres in the 60s to the Holocaust as a way to drive international attention to the atrocities.
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Human conflict can bring isolation to environments, which helps the local ecology thrive. After the war has ended, the return of nature is a poignant memorial and symbol of peace.
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A podcast on World War I – from a meeting between the three great war poets, to what happened to conscientious objectors in both Britain and Germany.
William Kentridge.
Goodman Gallery
For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzea.
EPA/Justin Lane
By standing in the way of the UN, Russia has chosen a shameful path.
This 1904 photograph showing the massacre of villagers by Dutch KNIL forces in the Indonesian village of Koetö Réh was used by the Dutch to argue for the paternalistic colonial state as protector. We now see it as evidence of imperial atrocity.
Collection Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.
From depictions of slavery to colonial massacres to contemporary portraits of refugees, photography is a powerful tool in evoking ideas of shared humanity.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Madrid on bilateral business, April 2018.
EPA/Kiko Huesca
When it comes to preventing air strikes on civilians, the law of the arms trade is clear. Why is it so hard for countries to observe it?
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Approximately 10,000 people have been diagnosed with cancer due to 9/11. What support is available to this community, and is it working?
The World Trade Center burns after being hit by planes in New York Sept. 11, 2001.
Reuters/Sara K. Schwittek
An unprecedented onslaught from the US hasn’t destroyed the terrorist organization. What is the secret of its resilience?