CIP has joined the global call to end the prosecution of Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah and protect independent journalism in Egypt.

The UN needs a chief executive who stands against the wealthy and powerful who are driving violence and suffering, not one who shields them.

This commentary is part of CIP’s Iran project. Trump and US war planners misread Tehran’s perception of the war. Iran is not on the verge of collapse; on the contrary, its leaders are now committed to ...

This week in New York, I attended an annual meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, along with several ...

Six months into the second U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration’s message is that Iran is weakening, the United States is winning and the costs of war will be temporary. That narrative ...

Three years in, Sudan’s civil war remains one of the world’s most pressing humanitarian crises, killing an estimated 150,000 people and forcibly displacing more than 12 million more, according to the ...

The funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei is the Islamic Republic’s biggest political ritual since the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 and one of the most consequential political events in the Islamic ...

The outcome of the U.S.-Iran war launched in February 2026 “exposed a deeper failure of systems thinking in U.S. strategy toward Iran and the region,” argues CIP Senior Nonresident Fellow Sina Toossi, ...

In April, U.S. prosecutors indicted the sitting governor of Sinaloa state in Mexico along with nine other current and former officials for colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel to traffic fentanyl and ...

The two-week uneasy ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran was set to end Tuesday April 21, and holds tenuously as of publication. In the media reports of talks about talks and of ...

David Cortright is a visiting scholar at Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and professor emeritus at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Read ...