Kimberly Dozier

Kim Dozier is a CNN Global Affairs Analyst, former TIME Magazine contributor, and former CBS News foreign correspondent.

Recent Articles

Can We Trust the Taliban's Promises?

As the black-turbaned mullahs of the Taliban gather in Kabul and Kandahar to hash out how they’ll govern, the decisions they make will offer the world clues to whether they remain the same brutal regime...

By Kimberly Dozier

Joe Biden's Botched Withdrawal

Biden's miscalculation could alter his presidency and weaken U.S. standing overseas. He supported the invasion, but he got elected on a platform of pulling troops out

By W.J. Hennigan and Kimberly Dozier

Americans and Afghans Brace for the Siege of Kabul

As Taliban militants wrest control of Afghanistan by seizing one major city after another, Afghan leaders are scrambling to develop a strategy to defend the capital from the militants, while U.S. officials are taking steps...

By Kimberly Dozier and W.J. Hennigan

The Afghan Who Saved My Life May Make It Out. What About Everyone Else?

An Afghan I’ll call “Mohammed” saved my life, when he drove me into Afghanistan as Kabul was falling in 2001, after the September 11th attacks. He spirited me through a Taliban checkpoint between Jalalabad and...

By Kimberly Dozier

Biden Is Withdrawing U.S. Forces From Afghanistan. What Happens Now?

After nearly 20 years, more than 2,300 U.S. troops dead, hundreds of thousands of Afghans killed and trillions of dollars spent, Biden has decided the U.S. has seen enough of the war in Afghanistan

By Kimberly Dozier and W.J. Hennigan

Why Crown Prince MBS Wasn't Sanctioned for Khashoggi Killing

In newly declassified detail, the world can now read why the CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dispatched the 15-man hit squad that killed and dismembered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018....

By Kimberly Dozier and W.J. Hennigan

Opening His First Foreign Policy Speech with a Dad Joke, 'Uncle Joe' Offers Battered State Staffers A Return to Normal

President Joe Biden started out his speech laying a new vision for America’s place in the world with a dad joke — or, rather, a granddad joke. He compared his own advanced age to that...

By Kimberly Dozier

Biden's Pledge of Normalcy Clashes with 'Strange Feeling' in a City Full of Troops

The reverend could hardly recognize the streets of Washington, DC, as he drove into town on Monday night, a draft of his Inaugural prayer tucked into a three-ring binder. The city looked more like a...

By Simon Shuster and Kimberly Dozier

A Possible Threat From the Inside at Inauguration

The deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has prompted U.S. security officials to think the unthinkable as they scramble to secure Washington ahead of next week’s Inauguration: that the enemy is already...

By Kimberly Dozier

Accusations of Racism, Bias Swirl Around Capitol Police

Former Capitol police chiefs are among those criticizing the response. 'It felt like a personal failure.'

By Kimberly Dozier and Melissa Chan

Incited by Trump, Supporters Storm Capitol

Seething with anger, mostly unmasked, Donald Trump’s supporters stormed and breached the U.S. Capitol

By Kimberly Dozier and Vera Bergengruen

Family Pleads for Detained 'Hotel Rwanda' Hero

Human rights officials and diplomats are also pushing the Rwandan regime to release Paul Rusesabagina

By Kimberly Dozier

Cyber Experts Scramble to Assess Scope of 'Hack of a Decade'

The hackers exploited a little-known but widely used software program called Orion

By Kimberly Dozier

Saudi Arabia Is Scrubbing Hate Speech from School Books. Why That's a Win for the Trump Administration

Students in Saudi Arabia, like so many around the world, have traded in-person classrooms for logging onto an app during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’re also experiencing other major shifts in Saudi Arabia’s official, country-wide...

By Kimberly Dozier

Trump's Foreign Policy Leaves Behind Destruction for Biden

How Trump's disruptions could be Biden's opportunity

By Kimberly Dozier and W.J. Hennigan

Trump Is Leaving Troops Behind in 'Forever Wars'

Despite his 2016 promises, Trump did not succeed in ending conflict in either Iraq or Afghanistan

By Kimberly Dozier and W.J. Hennigan

How the World Is Reacting to the 2020 U.S. Election

An international audience waited anxiously along with Americans on Wednesday as the U.S. presidential poll results trickled in with no clear victor. While populist politicians in Europe rallied around incumbent President Donald Trump, those favoring...

By Billy Perrigo , Suyin Haynes and Kimberly Dozier

The U.S. Capital Looks Like the Anxiety Americans Are Feeling on Election Day

Wall-to-wall plywood made a return to the streets of Washington, D.C. on the eve of Election Day, as did the thwap-thwap of police and other helicopters making arcs over neighborhoods near the White House. Businesses...

By Kimberly Dozier

‘I'm Expecting Chaos.' Diplomats and International Observers Brace for Election Day

Seasoned Polish diplomat Amb. Urszula Gacek is a veteran of hotly contested elections in places like Ukraine and Armenia. But observing the 2020 U.S. polls as chief of the U.S. mission from the Organization for...

By Kimberly Dozier

Silence on Trump's Health Fuels Rumors Among Diplomats

Foreign diplomats are scrambling to figure out how the iconoclastic American President will cope with his COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization, chasing rumors from the ridiculous — that he might somehow put his daughter in charge...

By Kimberly Dozier
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