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Experts: US, Iran Unlikely to Escalate Tensions
In The News
Following Iran's missile attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq Tuesday and President Donald Trump's speech Wednesday, experts say they believe the United States and Iran are unlikely...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Trump’s Chance to Take the High Road With Iran
It could have been much worse. It’s a measure of this dangerous moment that many observers felt relief on Tuesday night after the Pentagon announced that there had been no Am...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Press Note
Defense / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
CNAS Responds: Tensions Rise Between the United States and IranThe first week of 2020 has seen a sharp escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, with the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iranian missile strikes on U.S. military t...
By Richard Fontaine, Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kayla M. Williams, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya & Kaleigh Thomas
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Iran just fired missiles at US military targets. What does this mean?
In The News
The Trump administration’s reticence might be the most hopeful sign that the US-Iran conflict that has escalated dramatically since the strike on Soleimani could cool back dow...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Iran-US conflict may stretch definitions of ‘war’
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Refined Kitten – also known as APT33, Elfin, and Magnallium – is a shadowy hacker group that cybersecurity firms believe works in the interests of Iran. When tensions between ...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Iran general's death underscores vulnerability of senior leaders
Qassem Soleimani was identified in death by a silver ring with a massive red stone on the finger of his severed hand. That’s what was left of Soleimani, Iran’s top military g...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Conflict With Iran Threatens Fight Against ISIS
For the militants of the Islamic State, the American drone strike that killed the Iranian commander Qassim Suleimani was a two-for-one victory. First, the killing of General ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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NYC Readies More Cops as Security Tightened Across U.S. on Iran
Police with assault rifles and even bag checks could become more common as officials from New York to California ramp up security in the face of Iranian threats of revenge for...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Surge of IS Violence Seen in Syria
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Islamic State militants have increased their terror activity in recent weeks in Syria, carrying out deadly attacks against Syrian regime troops and U.S.-backed forces. Since ...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Turmoil in Iraq comes amid shrunken U.S. diplomatic footprint
In The News
The storming of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad by protesters on Tuesday has underscored the vulnerability of U.S. diplomats in a country stuck in the middle of a mounting conflic...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Turkey’s Erdoğan uses airbase as bargaining chip against United States
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is again threatening to close the country’s strategically important Incirlik Airbase to the United States if Washington pushes ahead wit...
By Nicholas Heras
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On the ground in northern Syria in the perilous weeks after Trump’s military withdrawal
In The News
On the morning of October 12th, Hevrin Khalaf, a rising young Kurdish political leader, rode along the M4 highway in northern Syria. Seated in the back of a bulletproof Toyota...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey’s relocating of Syrian refugees under way
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the country’s state broadcaster TRT that he intends to settle approximately 1 million Syrian refugees in the so-called “safe zone” ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurdish-led forces target ISIS smuggling network in Syria
The US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday announced that they had carried out a large-scale operation against an Islamic State smuggling network i...
By Nicholas Heras
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Analysts: Seized Weapons Show Iran's Deep Involvement in Yemen's War
The recent U.S. seizure of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen highlights Iran's continued far-reaching involvement in the war-torn country, exper...
By Nicholas Heras
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SDF leadership meets with Arab tribes in response to Damascus call to defect
The Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), General Mazloum Abdi, held a meeting on Tuesday with the Board of Notables, which includes senior members of the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Erdogan retreats on demand that NATO label YPG a terrorist group
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approached the just-concluded meeting of NATO heads of state in London with the demand that NATO recognizes the Kurdish People’s Protect...
By Nicholas Heras
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Fact check: Trump makes at least 21 false claims at NATO meetings
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President Donald Trump held official meetings with two foreign leaders and the head of NATO at the alliance summit in London on Tuesday -- and turned the public portion of eac...
By Nicholas Heras
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Report: U.S. Shoulders Steep Price to Protect Merchant Ships in Strait Of Hormuz
The Navy pays a steep price keeping an aircraft carrier with escorts on station to deter attacks on oil tanker traffic operating in and around the Persian Gulf as part of the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Turkish-backed groups launch attack near strategic Syrian town of Ain Issa
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Turkish-backed groups, with support from Turkish army drones, on Saturday attacked Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian government positions close to a refugee camp near ...
By Nicholas Heras
