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July 18, 2014

Military Operations
What’s the Pentagon’s Plan for the Counterterrorism Partnership Fund and Syria?

On Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing with senior Pentagon officials to review the Pentagon’s FY2015 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget request of $58.6 billion. I…

June 23, 2021

Middle East and North Africa
How Sisi Beat Biden’s Human Rights Policy

Egypt is again proving useful to the United States—for now.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reacts after delivering a speech at the Lower House of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, February 29, 2016.

March 15, 2016

Syria
March 15: Five Years of Disaster in Syria

Today, the Ides of March, marks the fifth anniversary of the rebellion in Syria against the Assad regime. These five years have brought an amazing humanitarian disaster: perhaps 350,000 dead, half…

May 20, 2010

China
Thinking Through Beijing’s Billions

Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Katrina Manson I have a new piece over at Foreign Policy about China’s money—or, more precisely, about how China’s foreign policy ambitions could change the way it deploys …

Thinking Through Beijing’s Billions

October 11, 2023

Morocco
Virtual Media Briefing: The World Bank and IMF 2023 Annual Meetings

CFR experts discuss the 2023 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, taking place this week in Marrakech, Morocco. GOODMAN: My name is Matthew Goodman. I recen…

Play U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Morocco Finance Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui