Jon B. Alterman is senior vice president, Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in ...

The Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste and the East African state of Mozambique are about 10,000 kilometers apart, yet their history is unusually connected. The two former Portuguese colonies are ...

Fifty years ago today, Angola gained its independence after centuries of Portuguese domination. But US officials like Henry Kissinger were already working hard to orchestrate a devastating proxy war ...