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Can India and Pakistan Capitalize on Their Border Stop-Hearth?

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. I’m Michael Kugelman, the Asia Program deputy director and senior associate for South…

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Biden Offers Turkey the Silent Therapy

Joe Biden spent the first month of his presidency making routine calls to world leaders. For Turkish President Recep Tayyip…

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Obama’s Iran Deal Looms Massive in Senate Hearings for Key Biden Picks

Two Obama administration veterans face a reckoning over their work on the Iran nuclear deal this week as they seek…

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Struggle Is Over Between India and Pakistan—for Now

In 2003, after decades of tensions and sniping along the Line of Control, the de facto international border in disputed…

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The Final Fishermen of Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir—On one evening in February, 40-year-old Nazir Ahmad Kondoo returned from Anchar Lake to his single-story house…

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Oscar-Shortlisted Movie Places Bosnian Genocide on Silver Display

A photo from the film Quo Vadis, Aida? Toronto International Film Festival In the summer of 2005, a decade after…

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Biden’s Syria Strikes Gas New Debate on Warfare Powers

U.S. President Joe Biden’s directive to carry out airstrikes in Syria has fueled new debates about the president’s war powers…

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Biden Has No Good Choices in Afghanistan

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. I’m Michael Kugelman, the Asia Program deputy director and senior associate for South…

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China Admits Casualties in Border Skirmish With India

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China confirms that four troops died in last year’s border skirmish…

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State Division Floats Plans to Reshuffle Counter-Islamic State Envoy Workplace

President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to transfer the State Department’s special envoy office charged with leading the anti-ISIS coalition…

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