Kimberly Dozier

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

Recent Articles

Trump vs. Biden: Facing Off on Taming a 'Rising China'

As President, Donald Trump has cast China as a global villain: a malevolent actor that all but launched a worldwide pandemic on an unsuspecting world, robbed Americans of their jobs and stole U.S. business secrets....

By Kimberly Dozier

‘You Bet Your Ass I've Got Regrets.’ As Election Day Nears, More of Trump’s Former Officials Are Speaking Out Against Him

Never in recent history have so many senior former U.S. officials publicly attacked the commander in chief they served, or the decisions he’s made, as the ranks lining up to say President Donald Trump put...

By Kimberly Dozier

Why Biden Wants to Keep Special Ops in the Mideast

As the so-called Islamic State captured eastern Syria and marched across northern Iraq in the late summer of 2014, then-U.S. Special Forces Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata promised then President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe...

By Kimberly Dozier

'Benghazi Definitely Crossed Everyone’s Mind'

A December 2019 attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was a carefully orchestrated escalation of the shadow war between the U.S. and Iran. Here's the inside story

By Kimberly Dozier

Will Trump's Middle East Deal Deliver Election Boost?

For Evangelical voters who took a chance on President Donald Trump, and conservative Jewish voters who put their hopes in him, the White House announcement this week that the United Arab Emirates would normalize relations...

By Kimberly Dozier

Trump Administration Mulls Releasing Taliban Drug Kingpin in Push for Peace

In 2005, Taliban financier and Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai flew from Dubai to New York City to strike a deal with American officials seeking peace with the Taliban. Or so he thought. It...

By Kimberly Dozier

10 Questions for ICC Chief Chile Eboe-Osuji

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, president of the International Criminal Court, tells TIME that as far as he is aware, the Trump Administration has not yet acted on its June 11 threat to sanction members of the...

By Kimberly Dozier

Taliban Continues to Back Al-Qaeda, UN Report Says

The U.S. went to war in Afghanistan with one goal in mind: ridding the country of the threat of al-Qaeda just weeks after the group killed nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now,...

By Kimberly Dozier

In DC, COVID-19 Hits African Americans Hard

It’s just past 7 a.m. as Tavis Clinton’s sanitation truck pulls to a stop in an alley in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Petworth, its streets lined by aging rowhouses and the occasional glass-and-metal gentrified...

By Kimberly Dozier

American Hostages Left Behind in Afghanistan

Two American hostages still missing in Afghanistan underscore the limits of a troubled peace deal the U.S. signed with the Taliban, and the Trump Administration’s diminishing ability to bend the militants to American will as...

By Kimberly Dozier

Aid Workers Warn COVID-19 Could Fuel Violence

Two fishing trawlers are crisscrossing the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, trying to find a country that will take in hundreds of Rohingya families fleeing Bangladesh’s refugee camps, who escaped ethnic cleansing in...

By Kimberly Dozier

U.S. Task Force Works to Bring Americans Home

On a normal day, U.S. Consular Agent Marian Han Nguyen’s duties in her sleepy one-woman office in Cusco, Peru, range from stamping passports to registering American babies. But when Lima announced it was closing Peru’s...

By Kimberly Dozier

Trump's WHO Funding Cut Is a Gift to Beijing

Cutting funding to the agency in the middle of a global pandemic, critics say, guarantees more sway by China

By Kimberly Dozier

Ten Questions For ICRC’s Peter Maurer

As the western world battles deadly waves of coronavirus, the first cases have been reported in Syria where hundreds of thousands of refugees are crammed into makeshift camps and bombed-out houses near the Turkish border....

By Kimberly Dozier

As Coronavirus Spreads, Washington's $1 Billion Aid Cut Couldn't Have Come at a Worse Time for Afghanistan

In Afghanistan’s western Herat province, Governor Abdul Quayom Rahimi is bracing for the worst. Last week, Rahimi recorded 61 confirmed cases of coronavirus in his region, all in Afghans who had crossed the border from...

By Kimberly Dozier

How Iran Sanctions Could Backfire On Trump

On a recent evening in Tehran, apartment dwellers on lockdown inside the city’s ubiquitous concrete tower blocks threw open their windows at 8pm, and serenaded each other with the national anthem. Across the world in...

By Kimberly Dozier and John Walcott

Officials Fight Criticism Over Cutting Global Health Staff

Anticipating the likely investigation into their handling of the coronavirus outbreak, current and former Trump Administration officials are starting to push back on widespread allegations that the Administration’s cuts to critical global health staffing and...

By Kimberly Dozier and Vera Bergengruen

Veterans Have Mixed Feelings to U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal

Most veterans of the 18-year war in Afghanistan wouldn’t have predicted this was how the fightback after the attacks of 9/11 would end: with the U.S. President calling the conflict a waste of American blood...

By Kimberly Dozier

The Trump Administration Has Put New Restrictions on Chinese Journalists in the U.S. Will It Work?

In an act of diplomatic reciprocity, the Trump administration is cutting the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work for Beijing’s state-run media outlets in the U.S. by nearly half, citing China’s expulsion of three...

By Kimberly Dozier

Secret Annexes, Backroom Deals: Can Zalmay Khalilzad Deliver Afghan Peace for Trump?

The best hope for an end to the 18-year war in Afghanistan may lie in a sumptuous conference room in Doha’s Diplomatic Club in Qatar. But there may be only one person who knows whether...

By Kimberly Dozier / Washington and Doha, Qatar
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