© Des Clark photos Two months after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the country is grappling with twin economic and humanitarian...

© Des Clark photos Iraq votes this coming Sunday, 10th of October but few are expecting any significant changes as a result to their...

Before the fall of Kabul and the chaos in HKIA, Kabul, Afghanistan © Des Clark photos Will the international humanitarian system repeat...

ISW analysis on the Taliban’s swift seizure of Kabul [which] has altered key regional states’ calculus toward Afghanistan. Russia, China,...

The Sheikh Jawad Al-Sadiq Mosque as seen February 2018 © Des Clark Photos Having visited Iraq's Tal Afar after the re-taking of the city...

Damage caused to NGO offices CARE USA and Counterpart International following a Taliban attack in Kabul, May 2019 © DesClark Photos A...

Employment opportunities, especially for women, in Mosul, are few and far between.. © DesClarkPhotos 2021 In the summer of 2014, the...

Iraqi street wiring representing the political system. Connections. Convoluted. Complicated. Challenging. Corrupting. © DesClark Photos A...

Ready to take off and leave Afghanistan.... © DesClark desclark.photos U.S. and NATO troops are rapidly executing President Biden’s...

West Mosul June 2021 © DesClark Photos The biggest question now is when the system will collapse completely—and equally important what...

The September pullout of US troops will change the calculations of the Afghan negotiating parties and could lead to a recharged civil war...

Looking across the Tigris to the unfinished Al-Rahman Mosque, Baghdad © Des Clark 2018 In the eighteen years since the fall of Saddam’s...

The tomb site of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Panjshir, Afghanistan © Des Clark 2020 Serious conflict risks will exist in Afghanistan even after...

The stabilization of the Iraqi state remains strategically important to the United States and worthy of a concerted US policy effort....

A recently published research paper by Dr Renad Mansour, Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme; Project...

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Taliban agreement, Afghanistan remains unfortunately far away from peace. The historic...

Should Libyans employ a transitional justice process, with support from the international community, focusing on adjudicating the past...

At present, the Afghan peace negotiations (APN) between the Afghan government and the Taliban do not involve any third-party presence...

Community based education class in Parwan province, Afghanistan © Des Clark 2020 There are significant debates and differences of opinion...

This Clingendael Institute report assesses the impact of Turkish-Qatari cooperation between 2002 and 2020 on conflict and geopolitical...