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With Iran tensions high, a US military command pushes a dubious carrier strategy
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Amid heightened tension with Iran, the U.S. Navy is operating two carriers in the Middle East, and all signs point to increasing pressure from U.S. Central Command to maintain...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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This Is a Particularly Bad Time for U.S.-Iran Tensions to Flare
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A sober American leader — looking at the scale of the crisis she faced at home, recognizing that she had to contend not just with a novel virus but a fractured political syste...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Coronavirus Can’t Quarantine The Proxy War Between U.S. and Iran
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A pandemic is spreading around the world, challenging global health systems and national preparedness. About the only thing the novel coronavirus is not disrupting is conflict...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Coronavirus: The Deadly New U.S.-Iran StandoffThe official COVlD-19 death toll in Iran has risen to 237 people today as the U.S.-Iranian diplomatic standoff continues to slow down international cooperation to fight the ne...
By Peter Harrell
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U.S. military scrambles to confront a new reality across the Middle East
In the weeks since an American drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, U.S. military leaders have been sprinting to confront a dangerous new reality in the Midd...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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As Netanyahu claims win, Israel loses U.S. Democrats
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After Monday’s parliamentary election in Israel, the third in less than a year, the country faced a familiar reality. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party appeared ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Kurds Determined to Try IS Foreign Fighters in Syria
Syrian Kurdish officials seem firm on moving ahead with their plans to put captured Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters on trial in Syria, despite little international support...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Uncertain future for thousands of Idlib jihadists
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The humanitarian crisis that began with the Syrian government’s and Russia’s military escalation in north-western Syria continues. The United Nations said the situation has re...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Soleimani's enigmatic successor vows revenge on US
The Trump administration has trained its eye on the new leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force, but may have a hard time targeting a commander expert in...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Trump Unveils the “Giveaway of the Century” on Middle East Peace
Three years after he said that peace in the Middle East was “not as difficult as people have thought,” President Donald Trump unveiled a lopsided plan that gives Israel much o...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Syria revives Soviet-inspired laws to slow economic meltdown, save currency
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Lebanon’s financial collapse is having repercussions beyond its borders, as Syrian President Bashar Assad revives Soviet-inspired laws to halt the meltdown of the Syrian econo...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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What Kushner's canceled trip to Israel might mean
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The decision of Jared Kushner to cancel the peace team's visit to Israel, citing weather conditions and delayed flight, left experts in Washington and Jerusalem confused. It i...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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11 US troops were injured in Iran’s attack. It shows how close we came to war.
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Last week, Iran attacked two US military sites in Iraq. Now, a week later, one thing has become unmistakably clear: The US and Iran only barely avoided a potentially devastati...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Nervous U.S. Allies Brace for Iran FalloutCaught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of the most powerful Iranian general, the United States’ longtime Gulf and European allies are ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Rachel Rizzo
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Iran avoids full-blown war with US but is caught in new crisis
The Iranian leadership, rattled by the death of a top general in an US drone attack, hit at US forces in Iraq with missile strikes designed to save face at home but not sparki...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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The US killed Soleimani. What will Iran do next?
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In his speech declaring a kind of victory over Iran on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said “Iran appears to be standing down,” implying the threat America faces from the Is...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Its Missiles Did Little Damage, but Iran Has More Potent Weapons
American military and intelligence officials were stunned at the precision, scale and sheer boldness of what they later concluded was an Iranian attack. Four months ago, a sw...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Kushner’s Global Role Shrinks as He Tackles Another: The 2020 Election
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When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Vice Pr...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Here’s what might happen if the U.S. were to suddenly quit Iraq
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Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to set up a mechanism for U.S. troops to withdraw from the country, according to an Iraqi s...
By Ilan Goldenberg
