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Commentary / Yemen

Misunderstanding Yemen

U.S. efforts to uproot al-Qaeda’s Yemeni franchise often overlooked the country’s mercurial politics. As part of our series The Legacy of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”, Peter Salisbury explains that the sectarianism the group espoused is still rife on all sides of Yemen’s war.

The Legacy of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”: A Special Series
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The Legacy of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”: A Special Series

Crisis Group experts contribute their views on how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent “war on terror” shaped the conflicts and crises they work on.

Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?
Podcast / Africa

Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?

Saving Momentum for Change in Mali’s Transition
Report / Africa

Transition au Mali : préserver l’aspiration au changement

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Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror
Report / United States

Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror

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Five Conflicts the EU Can Help Address

The Spring Update of the Watch List 2021 includes entries on Myanmar, Yemen, Bolivia, Nigeria and Ukraine.

 
Video / Africa

What Data Says About Herder-Farmer Violence in Nigeria

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

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Video / Africa

What is Happening in South Sudan?

 
Video / Asia

Myanmar Edges Toward State Collapse Following Coup

 
Video / Middle East & North Africa

Peacemaking in Yemen Needs Women's Voices

 
Video / Africa

Resolving the Insurgency in South Sudan's Equatoria Region

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Fighters for Peace: The Struggle of Latin America’s Women Activists

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia

 
Video / Africa

A New Strategy to End the Sahel's Wars

 
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Video – 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021

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Gender and Conflict

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Gender and Conflict
Podcast / Gender and Conflict

Gender and Conflict

For an International Women’s Day special episode of Hold Your Fire!, Naz Modirzadeh and Richard Atwood talk to Azadeh Moaveni, Crisis Group’s gender and conflict expert, about the Women, Peace and Security agenda and Crisis Group’s work on gender and conflict.

Briefing / Gender and Conflict

A Course Correction for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Briefing / Middle East & North Africa

Exiles in Their Own Country: Dealing with Displacement in Post-ISIS Iraq

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Podcast / Global

War & Peace: Why Gender Matters in the Fight Against Terrorism

Visual Explainers

Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas: A Visual Explainer

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer

In The News

17 Sep 2021
Many people in Myanmar struggle to see how nonviolence can be effective in a situation where the regime is willing to unleash extraordinary levels of violence against ordinary people. LA Times

Richard Horsey

Senior Adviser, Myanmar
13 Sep 2021
Unfortunately, while in much of the world 9/11 is viewed as in the past, in Africa, the legacy of those attacks lives on. The World

Murithi Mutiga

Project Director, Horn of Africa
12 Sep 2021
The Huthis [in Yemen] have gone from being a relatively contained rebel movement to de facto authorities who (control) the capital and territory where more than 20 million people live. AFP

Peter Salisbury

Senior Analyst, Yemen
9 Sep 2021
China and Russia are arguing for a pragmatic approach in dealing with Taliban [in Afghanistan]. For them, regional security interests come first. Bloomberg

Richard Gowan

UN Director
5 Sep 2021
The US and other Western countries welcome Qatari mediation because of their [own] limited interactions with the Taliban [in Afghanistan]. France 24

Dina Esfandiary

Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa
3 Sep 2021
At the end of the day, the Chinese and Russians aren’t going to sacrifice their relations with the Taliban on the altar of Western states’ concerns about human rights in Afghanistan. Foreign Policy

Richard Gowan

UN Director

Regional Updates

Global

Big Data and Global Security
Podcast

Big Data and Global Security

Podcast

Al-Qaeda and ISIS twenty years after 9/11

Commentary

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council

Africa

Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?
Podcast

Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?

Op-Ed

Could Somalia Be the Next Afghanistan?

Report

Transition au Mali : préserver l’aspiration au changement

Asia

Philippines: The International Criminal Court Goes After Duterte’s Drug War
Q&A

Philippines: The International Criminal Court Goes After Duterte’s Drug War

Op-Ed

The Taliban’s Comeback Is a Conundrum for Iran

Q&A

Who Will Run the Taliban Government?

Europe & Central Asia

Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power
Commentary

Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power

Commentary

Visualising the Dynamics of Combat and Negotiations in Donbas

Commentary

Turkey in the Sahel

Latin America & Caribbean

Venezuela: Making the Most of the Mexican Breakthrough
Commentary

Venezuela: Making the Most of the Mexican Breakthrough

Q&A

Handling the Aftermath of Haiti’s Presidential Assassination

Op-Ed

If sanctions failed to solve Nicaragua’s crisis, will more sanctions succeed?

Middle East & North Africa

Iran Navigates the World
Speech

Iran Navigates the World

Commentary

The Anxiety Effect: How 9/11 and Its Aftermath Changed Gulf Arab States’ Relations with the U.S.

Commentary

How the Counter-terrorism Imperative Has Warped U.S.-Egyptian Ties

United States

Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror
Report

Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror

Podcast

License to Kill: Lawyering in the War on Terror

Op-Ed

Putting AUMF Repeal Into Context

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