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Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Israel Deploys Remote-Controlled Robotic Guns in West BankIn Al-Aroub, residents say the machines fire without warning. “It is very fast, even faster than the soldiers,” said Kamel Abu Hishesh, a 19-year-old student. He described alm...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Launches Project on a New Middle East Security Architecture
Washington, November 10, 2022—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to announce the launch of “The New Middle East: Constructing Regional Partnerships and Seizing ...
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Security a Focus as Biden Hosts Israel’s President
U.S. President Joe Biden met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Wednesday to address regional security challenges, including the threat posed by Iran an...
By Jonathan Lord
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Defense / Middle East Security
Five Things to Know about Putin’s Increasing Reliance on IranRussia’s use of Iranian drones in Ukraine — first documented earlier this month — is an example of “the greatest degree of military cooperation that the two countries have had...
By Becca Wasser & Jonathan Lord
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‘More of a Wildcard’: What a Netanyahu Comeback Could Mean for US-Israeli Relations
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East Security program at the Center for a New American Security, said Netanyahu would take a more adversarial, public approach to rejecti...
By Jonathan Lord
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Why Iran Is Helping Russia against Ukraine
The third out-of-the-box reason is that the effectiveness of Iranian drones in a major war is the best advertisement possible for those weapons. Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 drone p...
By Jonathan Lord
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Top US Senator Calls for Action over Oil Production Cuts
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East program at the Centre for a New American Security, told The National that the House foreign affairs committee already had a policy b...
By Jonathan Lord
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Biden's Iran nuclear deal obstacles extend beyond Tehran
President Joe Biden's administration has been sounding more optimistic as it works to clear the final hurdles to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. But before that can be...
By Jonathan Lord
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As Iraq's political crisis deepens, US influence dwindles
Iraq has hosted just two senior US government visits in the months since the country's October election. Meanwhile, the sprawling US embassy has been operating with a skeleton...
By Jonathan Lord
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Exclusive: Austin approves downgrade of 5 general officer jobs at embassies
“Secretary Austin May believe he has elegantly split the baby, but what he’s done is undermine the department’s ability to engage in effective defense diplomacy with five key ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
CNAS Responds: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri killed in drone strikeCenter for a New American Security experts offer insight into the ramifications of the CIA-led killing of al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri and the lasting legacy of the global war ...
By Richard Fontaine, Paul Scharre, Lisa Curtis, Carrie Cordero, Christopher D. Kolenda & Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Defense / Middle East Security
Following Biden’s MidEast visit, Pentagon aims to do more with less“If the US is going to to be the lynchpin, it would put a further demand on some of the air and missile defense forces,” said Becca Wasser, a fellow at the Center for New Amer...
By Becca Wasser
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A signal of 'impunity'? Biden's trip to Middle East pits human rights against geopolitical reality
During a private conversation at the opulent horse ranch of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in 2009, the monarch told President Barack Obama he had his back. Abdullah assured the...
By Richard Fontaine
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Sound Familiar? Trump, Biden and the World Stage
In his first foreign policy speech as president, Joe Biden couldn’t have been clearer: “America is back,” he assured the world, and he vowed to “course-correct our foreign pol...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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CNAS's Ilan Goldenberg Named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Washington, December 14, 2021—The Center for a New American Security congratulates Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of its Middle East Security program, on his appo...
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US, Iran Return to Nuclear Talks After Five-Month Delay
The U.S. and Iran on Monday held their seventh round of indirect talks as part of efforts to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. The talks came more than five months after the co...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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CNAS Responds: Will the Iran Deal Be Revived in Vienna?
The U.S., UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China—along with the European Union High Representative—meet with Iranian representatives today in Vienna for the seventh round of t...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Biden hosts Israel’s new prime minister, with Iran at the top of the agenda
For the first time in more than a decade, an Israeli prime minister not named Netanyahu is arriving in Washington to visit the president of the United States at the White Hous...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Defense / Middle East Security
Why Joe Biden is ending America’s combat mission in IraqWhen the first American bombs began falling on Iraq on March 19th 2003, President George W. Bush predicted a hard slog. “A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large a...
By Becca Wasser
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Biden, pulling combat forces from Iraq, seeks to end the post-9/11 era
President Biden has announced the full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He has started transferring prisoners from Guantánamo Bay in hopes of eventually shutting do...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers