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MANAGING US RELATIONS WITH
PAKISTAN IN UNCERTAIN TIMES:
OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES

The United States and Pakistan have a longstanding relationship spanning more than three-quarters of a century, but this relationship has experienced significant stress since the post-9/11 American intervention in Afghanistan. The U.S. had expected Pakistan to lend more support to its efforts to defeat the Taliban, and Pakistan felt underappreciated …

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As its counteroffensive fizzles, Ukraine battles itself, Russia and a shift in the world’s attention

Staring down a long and difficult winter, Ukraine is fighting on multiple fronts while the world’s attention has shifted to the Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East. Ukraine is battling more than the Russian army. After more than 21 months of grueling war, it’s now grasping for the world’s attention …

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Daniel DePetris: Blaming Iran for all the violence in the Middle East is not the right tack to take for US policy

The sailors aboard the USS Carney, based in the Red Sea, had a busy weekend — one that could have just as easily turned deadly were it not for the professionalism demonstrated on the ship. On Sunday, the Yemen-based Houthi group launched four attacks on international vessels transiting the waterway. …

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