Sarwar Kashmeri, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's International Security Program, interviewed Andrew Bacecvich, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University, for the New Atlanticist Podcast Series.  Bacevich discussed the recent election results in Afghanistan and the future of NATO's mission in the country.

Atlantic Council Board member Muslim Lakhani was interviewed by John Milewski, host of the Wilson Center's Dialogue program, about U.S.-Pakistan relations.

On Wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, the streets of Iran were filled with ordinary citizens demonstrating not for the humiliation of the United States but for peaceful political change in their country.

Jonathan Paris, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, co-authored an editorial in the New York Times with Nazenin Ansari entitled "The Message From the Streets of Tehran."

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the half-Tajik opthamologist who finished second in the first round of the Afghan presidential election and who led the push for this coming Saturday’s runoff, dropped out of the race Sunday.

The editors at Foreign Policy magazine used the occasion of the first anniversary of Barack Obama's election as president to ask a "a group of experts" to grade President Obama's foreign policy performance.   I was honored to be among the graders.

Not one of the 42 nations involved on the ground in Afghanistan wants to stay the course until the birth of a new nation, cleansed of Taliban insurgents, and a reasonable facsimile of democratic rule. To begin with, no one believes this would be possible short of another 10-year commitment. And untold billions more in economic aid when donor nations are already awash in red ink.

Sarwar Kashmeri, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's International Security Program, has interviewed Rajan Menon, Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, for the New Atlanticist Podcast series. Menon recently penned an oped titled "Nobody wins in the Afghan runoff election" for  the Los Angeles Times.

Shuja Nawaz, director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, was interviewed by Michel Martin, host of NPR's Tell Me More, about the Pakistani military's recent offensive in the FATA and its ramifications for the rest of the country.

The terrorist attacks on October 18 killing dozens of Revolutionary Guardsmen, including seven top commanders, and several tribal leaders in Southeastern Iran are the latest episode of a three-fold challenge to the Regime. These attacks were followed two days later by the shooting of two Iranian police officers in Iranshahr in the same Sistan-Baluchistan province.