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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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Experts: US, Iran Unlikely to Escalate Tensions
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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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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
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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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Has Trump deterred Iran? Experts not so sure.
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US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday that the US strike that killed a top Iranian general had restored credibility to the US threat to Tehran to restrain itself mili...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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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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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?
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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
