Hold Your Fire!

By International Crisis Group

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Join Crisis Group's Executive Vice President Richard Atwood as he dives deep into the conflicts that rage around the globe with Crisis Group analysts and special guests. These experts bring a unique, on-the-ground perspective to understanding both why those conflicts persist — and what could bring them to an end.

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Episode Date
Conferences in Germany, India and Türkiye and the Demise of Peace Deals
Mar 26, 2024
Haiti in Freefall
Mar 15, 2024
Starving Gaza
Mar 09, 2024
Military Rule and Russian Mercenaries in the Sahel
Mar 01, 2024
Great Lakes Politics and the Fight for the Eastern DR Congo
Feb 23, 2024
“Axis of Resistance” versus U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria
Feb 13, 2024
The Red Sea and the Horn
Feb 03, 2024
War of Attrition in Ukraine
Jan 26, 2024
Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2024
Jan 22, 2024
A New Phase in the War in Gaza?
Jan 13, 2024
Iran: Gaza, “Axis of Resistance” and Nuclear Calculations
Dec 01, 2023
What Threat Does the Rebel Offensive in Myanmar Pose to the Junta?
Nov 24, 2023
Will There Be a Day After for Gaza?
Nov 17, 2023
Sudan’s Collapse and the Demise of Peacemaking
Nov 10, 2023
What Hope for a Ceasefire in Gaza
Nov 05, 2023
Gaza, Ukraine and An Inflection Point in World Politics?
Oct 27, 2023
War in Gaza: To What End and At What Cost?
Oct 20, 2023
No Going Back? Hamas’s Atrocities and Another Catastrophe in Gaza
Oct 13, 2023
A Long War Looming in Sudan
Jul 07, 2023
Bonus Episode: What Egypt Wants in Sudan
Jun 30, 2023
Is This the End? Wagner in Russia, Ukraine and Africa
Jun 28, 2023
Blinken in Beijing: Will the Secretary of State's Visit Calm China-U.S. Tensions?
Jun 23, 2023
Myanmar’s Forgotten War
Jun 16, 2023
Could Jihadists Seize Parts of Coastal West Africa?
Jun 02, 2023
Libya: Political Gridlock, Regional Politics and Sudan’s War
May 26, 2023
Riyadh and the World: What to Make of Saudi Arabia’s Recent Diplomacy
May 22, 2023
Fighting in Khartoum, Talking in Jeddah
May 12, 2023
What to Expect from Ukraine’s Counter-Offensive
May 05, 2023
What Can Stop Sudan’s Devastating War
Apr 28, 2023
War in Sudan
Apr 22, 2023
Drones and Diplomacy: Will Türkiye’s Elections Change its Middle-Power Activism?
Apr 04, 2023
Somalia’s Latest Battles Against Al-Shabaab
Mar 24, 2023
Iran: A Deal with Saudi Arabia, Closer Ties to Russia and the Looming Nuclear Crisis
Mar 17, 2023
Will the Ukraine War Blow U.S.-China Relations Further Off Course?
Mar 11, 2023
Another Year of War in Ukraine?
Feb 24, 2023
Insecurity and Identity Politics Ahead of Nigeria’s Vote
Feb 17, 2023
Mark Malloch-Brown on the Ukraine War and Challenges to Open Societies
Feb 10, 2023
Israel-Palestine’s Worsening Violence and Despair
Feb 03, 2023
Great Lakes Tensions Spike After Rwanda Nearly Downs a Congolese Fighter Jet
Jan 27, 2023
Bonus Episode: Eritrea’s Long Bitter Feud with Ethiopia’s Tigray
Jan 20, 2023
Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2023
Jan 15, 2023
Can Foreign Forces Tackle Haiti’s Gangs?
Dec 09, 2022
No End in Sight in Ukraine?
Dec 02, 2022
Football and Politics in the Gulf
Nov 25, 2022
Finland's FM Pekka Haavisto on the Ukraine War, European Security and Peacemaking Elsewhere
Nov 18, 2022
Ethiopia’s Tigray War: After the Cessation of Hostilities, What Next?
Nov 10, 2022
Lula and Latin America’s Leftward Lurch
Nov 05, 2022
After the Crackdowns, is Chad’s Transition Unravelling?
Oct 28, 2022
Can a New UN Envoy Help Resolve Libya’s Political Crisis?
Oct 21, 2022
An Escalatory Spiral in Ukraine?
Oct 14, 2022
Coup in Burkina, Russia in Mali and a New Chapter in the Sahel?
Oct 07, 2022
The U.S. and the Taliban after the Killing of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
Sep 30, 2022
Back to War in Ethiopia
Sep 23, 2022
What to Watch at the UN General Assembly, plus Ukraine’s Kharkiv Offensive and the Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Clashes
Sep 16, 2022
Iraq’s Political Crisis, Moqtada al-Sadr and a Divided Shia House
Sep 09, 2022
Season Finale: Ukraine and an Unsettling Few Months in Global Politics
Jul 11, 2022
India’s Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine
Jul 05, 2022
Finland’s NATO Application, Western Policy in Ukraine and the War’s Global Fallout
Jun 24, 2022
Rollercoaster Politics Ahead of Kenya's August Elections
Jun 17, 2022
Peacemaking After Ukraine: A Look at Nagorno-Karabakh and Libya
Jun 10, 2022
Who is Rodolfo Hernández, Colombia’s “TikTok King”, and Can He Win the Presidency?
Jun 03, 2022
New President in Somalia, New Opportunity for Reconciliation
May 27, 2022
Shades of Jihad in Syria
May 20, 2022
A Perilous Free-for-all in the Eastern DR Congo?
May 13, 2022
Taliban Rule in Afghanistan
May 06, 2022
Is the Danger of a NATO-Russia War Growing?
Apr 29, 2022
European Security and France’s Election in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Apr 22, 2022
Pakistan After Imran Khan’s Ouster: Tests at Home and Away
Apr 15, 2022
Can a Truce and New Government Help End Yemen’s War?
Apr 08, 2022
Can a “Humanitarian Truce” Help End Ethiopia’s Civil War?
Apr 01, 2022
Decoding Russia’s Nuclear Threats over Ukraine
Mar 25, 2022
The Fallout from Ukraine: Iran Talks Stalled; U.S. Woos Caracas?
Mar 19, 2022
France’s Troop Withdrawal from Mali
Mar 16, 2022
International Women’s Day Special Episode: Can War Be Feminist?
Mar 11, 2022
The Ukraine War: A View from Moscow
Mar 09, 2022
Any Hope Left For Diplomacy Over Ukraine?
Mar 05, 2022
Russia’s War in Ukraine
Feb 26, 2022
Can Western Diplomacy Still Avert War in Ukraine?
Feb 18, 2022
Turkey's Foreign Relations Balancing Act
Feb 05, 2022
Another Coup in West Africa: The Burkina Faso Military Seizes Power
Jan 28, 2022
Special Episode: Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2022
Jan 21, 2022
Will the Iran Nuclear Deal Survive and What Happens if Not?
Jan 14, 2022
Can the U.S. Address Migration’s “Root Causes” in Central America?
Dec 17, 2021
Russia in Africa
Dec 10, 2021
Will Russia Invade Ukraine?
Dec 03, 2021
Western Policy and Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Devastation
Nov 26, 2021
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte: Populist or Peacemaker?
Nov 19, 2021
Bosnia Unravelling?
Nov 12, 2021
Will Tigrayan Rebels Attack Ethiopia’s capital?
Nov 05, 2021
The Military’s Dangerous Power Grab in Sudan
Oct 29, 2021
U.S.-China Tensions and Beijing’s Show of Strength in the Taiwan Strait
Oct 22, 2021
Cameroon's Forgotten Anglophone Conflict
Oct 15, 2021
Lebanon is Falling Apart
Oct 08, 2021
Could Talking to Mali's Jihadists Bring Peace?
Oct 01, 2021
Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?
Sep 24, 2021
License to Kill: Lawyering in the War on Terror
Sep 16, 2021
Al-Qaeda and ISIS Twenty Years after 9/11
Sep 10, 2021
Afghanistan: the Islamic State, still no Taliban government and a looming humanitarian catastrophe
Sep 03, 2021
Special Episode: What Will the Taliban Do Next?
Aug 19, 2021
Iraq: Protests, Iran’s Role and an End to U.S. Combat Operations
Jul 30, 2021
The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan
Jul 22, 2021
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Jul 15, 2021
Ten Years of South Sudanese Statehood
Jul 08, 2021
A Dramatic Turn in Ethiopia’s Tigray War
Jul 01, 2021
Biden in Europe
Jun 24, 2021
Iran: the Vote and the Bomb
Jun 17, 2021
COVID-19, Inequality and Protests in Colombia
Jun 10, 2021
The Insurrection in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado
Jun 03, 2021
What Does Hamas Want?
May 27, 2021
Another War: Views from Israel/Palestine
May 20, 2021
UN Security Council Crankiness and Antonio Guterres' Re-election
May 12, 2021
Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy
May 06, 2021
What Déby’s Death Means for Chad and the Region
Apr 29, 2021
Rising Russia-Ukraine Tensions and the West
Apr 22, 2021
Is The Gulf Dispute Actually Over?
Apr 15, 2021
How Afghanistan Views the U.S. Troop Drawdown
Apr 08, 2021
Tshisekedi Consolidates Power in DR Congo
Apr 01, 2021
Ethiopia’s Tigray Crisis and Horn of Africa Politics
Mar 25, 2021
Good News in Libya?
Mar 18, 2021
The War on Drugs in Colombia’s Countryside
Mar 11, 2021
Special Episode: Gender and Conflict
Mar 08, 2021
A Dangerous New Turn in Yemen’s War
Mar 04, 2021
The War in the Sahel
Feb 25, 2021
The Coup in Myanmar
Feb 18, 2021
Latin America’s Tough Year Ahead
Feb 11, 2021
Africa in 2021
Feb 05, 2021
Syria’s Frozen Conflict
Jan 28, 2021
U.S. Sanctions: An Overused Foreign Policy Tool?
Jan 21, 2021
Social Media and the U.S. Capitol Events
Jan 14, 2021
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021
Jan 07, 2021
Trump’s Morocco-Israel Transaction
Dec 17, 2020
Michael Kovrig: Two Years in Arbitrary Detention in China
Dec 10, 2020
Regime Change Re-examined
Dec 03, 2020
Afghanistan's Peace Process
Nov 26, 2020
Ethnicity and Conflict in Myanmar
Nov 19, 2020
“First, Do No Harm”: A New U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden?
Nov 13, 2020
Protests against Police Brutality Shake Nigeria
Nov 05, 2020
Can the U.S. Avoid an Election Crisis?
Oct 29, 2020
What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
Oct 22, 2020
Turkey Flexes Its Foreign Policy Muscles
Oct 15, 2020
What’s Behind the Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh
Oct 08, 2020
President Trump’s Off-the-Rails Foreign Policy
Oct 01, 2020
Libya's Proxy War
Sep 24, 2020
Ethiopia's Political Crisis
Sep 17, 2020
Afghan Peace Talks: Dealing with the Taliban
Sep 10, 2020
Israel, the UAE, and Normalisation
Sep 03, 2020