Obaidullah Baheer has built his career promoting progress in Afghanistan: He’s a university lecturer on intractable conflicts and who advocates for women’s and minority rights online. But his life could have wound up very different. As the grandson of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar — the leader of Islamist rebel group Hezb-i-Islami — he was once…
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One of Biden’s biggest foreign policy moves so far has been sticking with Trump’s Afghanistan…
Quick, give me the first answer to this question that comes to your head: What TV character is the…
The Biden administration says it’s focused on creating a “foreign policy for the middle class,” But…
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Over the course of our nuclear history, smaller (potentially more usable) nuclear weapons have come in…