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3- Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah, Ambassador of Kuwait to the US (L) and Sheikha Rima Al-Sabah (2nd L), with UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban, at the Annual Gala of the Kuwait-America Foundation on 11 March 2012. (Photo credit: flickr)

In Recognition of Rima Al-Sabah's Social Activism in Washington

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An Ethiopian boy refugee who fled the Tigray conflict walks carrying a container of oil contributed by USAID, at Village Eight transit centre near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 2, 2020. (Getty)

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U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken following Blinken's testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill on March 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. Blinken discussed the Biden administration's priorities for U.S. foreign policy. (Getty)

White House Foreign Policy Moves Defy Expectations

The Biden administration has weathered its first series of tests abroad and offered glimpses of an emerging foreign policy. Dismissing the temptations of immediate disengagement from the region, the…

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Flags of NATO member countries hang at the Parliament Square at the last NATO Summit in London, on December 2, 2019.

The EU is the Military Ally the United States Needs

Tensions over anemic European defense spending have long suffused transatlantic relations—and since 2014, they have become all-consuming, crowding out other priorities, straining the alliance, and…

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Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

The Defense Department’s coming near-total withdrawal of troops from Somalia follows its 2019 re-assessment of its force posture in Africa, aimed at shifting finite resources to great power…

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U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2018 in New York City. (Getty)

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When U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, he deliberately signaled a definitive break with the internationalist consensus that has guided U.S. grand…

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