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  On June 8, Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) met with Mr. Zhang Chunxian, Party Chief (Governor) of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China, on a delegation hosted by AFPC at the U.S. Capitol.

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  AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman poses with Congressman Patrick Meehan, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, following his testimony on July 7.

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  Arun Jaitley, the Leader of the Opposition in India's Upper House of Parliament, chats with AFPC President Herman Pirchner, Jr., former National Security Advisor Robert "Bud" McFarlane, and Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M. Smith in a Capitol Hill meeting.

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  On September 14, AFPC Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M. Smith briefs former Secretary of the Navy Amb. J. William Middendorf and others on security issues threatening southeast Asia in the AFPC conference room.

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  AFPC Staff and Advisory Board members pose with Mr. Liu Jieyi, Vice Minister of the International Department of the CPC after a September 7th dinner meeting in Washington, DC.

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  AFPC delegation meets with Alexander Torshin, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia's legislature, in Moscow in December 2010

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  The American Foreign Policy Council’s World Almanac of Islamism is a comprehensive resource designed to track the rise or decline of radical Islam on a national, regional and global level.

When the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad was engulfed by the “Arab Spring” last March, many waxed optimistic that regime change in Syria wouldn’t be long in coming. But ten months into the ensuing civil war, Assad’s regime shows no signs of fading away quietly. To the contrary, it has doubled down on repression, waging an extended campaign of official brutality against its own people in its bid to remain in power. As of mid-January, the death toll from Syria’s uprising had topped 6,000, with no let-up in sight.