Consular officer Alan Eaton helped scores of Afghans at risk evacuate from Kabul, working from inside the Abbey Gate at... more

Eric Rubin sums it up with one word.  If we want to be successful in our diplomacy, we need to... more

Our friend is still there, fearing for her life.  What is going on in Afghanistan right now?  Laura shares Toobah's... more

For Pride Month (belatedly posted due to events in Afghanistan and our coverage of those), Austin Richey-Allen recounts his story... more

Our disastrous departure from Afghanistan. Hugo Llorens shares his knowledge of the Taliban's subgroups (hint: none abide by the Geneva... more

Wouldn't we all like to know.  She's alive, at least.  Bad luck becomes good luck as she is turned away... more

People's lives are at stake in the most urgent way.  Policy is a macro-level thing, and utterly necessary.  But what... more

Or a traitor, anyway. In an eerily quiet region during the Vietnam war, from a banana grove in the... more

The Arab Spring – Tunisia, Egypt – we know about these places. But Bahrain is almost never in the news.... more

Amb. Ryan Crocker, Middle East expert, explains the value of Foreign Service Nationals and brings it all home with a... more