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What's left of Daesh in Syria
The Islamic State militant group, whose self-proclaimed "caliphate" disintegrated last year, still controls pockets of territory in Syria. The organisation's fighters even too...
By Nicholas Heras
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Congress: We Can’t Stop Trump From Killing the Iran Deal
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Key lawmakers are predicting that President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal later this spring. And although there is an appetite on Capit...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Cities at Risk of Climate-Driven Conflict
We know that climate change imperils coastal communities around the world and endangers food and water sources, and that political and religious extremism feed off instability...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.
President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — includ...
By Julianne Smith
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The British government says Russia poisoned an ex-spy in the UK. Now London is striking back
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May said her country will expel 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday — which would be the country’s largest removal of foreign officials in more than 30...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Turkish leader vows wider offensive against Kurdish militia
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BEIRUT — Turkey’s president vowed Monday to keep up the pressure against a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia after his troops captured the Syrian town of Afrin, threatening t...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital Program
Impact of State Department leadership shake-up on its employeesPhillip Carter, Senior Fellow & Counsel at the Center for a New American Security discusses how officials at the State Department are feeling after Rex Tillerson’s departu...
By Phillip Carter
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Trump's firings signal hawkish turn on North Korea and Iran
The end, when it comes to a job in the Trump administration, can be messy and brutal. The secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, was fired while returning from a gruelling Africa ...
By Julianne Smith
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What does Turkey's seizure of Afrin mean for Syria war?
The capture of Afrin from the Kurds by Turkish-led fighters on Sunday could have major repercussions for Syria's protracted war. Here we look at what it means for Turkey, the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Omar Alloush – murdered for building a shared future for Syria’s Arabs and Kurds?
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – On Wednesday evening, Omar Alloush, the co-head of Raqqa Civil Council’s Public Relations Committee and a member of the Syrian Democratic Cou...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Chose Pompeo as Kindred Spirit to Take Over U.S. Diplomacy
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Mike Pompeo had an audition for his new job as secretary of state just about every morning at the White House, where the CIA director gave President Donald Trump his top-secre...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Senior Kurdish official, key to US policy in Syria, killed
BEIRUT — A senior Kurdish official who played a key role with the United States in implementing its post-Islamic State group policy in northern Syria has been found dead in hi...
By Nicholas Heras
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Is Boeing working on a second MQ-25 drone prototype?
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ST. LOUIS — Boeing is confident it can win the Navy’s MQ-25 carrier-based tanker drone competition. In fact, it’s so bullish that it may already be on a path to building a sec...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Wine and Diamonds: How North Korea Dodges Sanctions
TOKYO — The United Nations detailed on Friday how North Korea gets around international sanctions designed to hobble the government and its nuclear weapons program. President ...
By Peter Harrell
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National Security Human Capital Program
Veterans Affairs chief, once a Trump favorite, fights for his job over ethical lapsesDavid Shulkin is struggling to hold on to his job as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs as he grapples with allegations of ethical missteps and mismanagement, as ...
By Phillip Carter
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.SAN FRANCISCO — There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The questio...
By Robert O. Work, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre
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Press Release
Technology & National Security
CNAS Launches Artificial Intelligence Task ForceThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security, which will examine how the ...
By Paul Scharre, Robert O. Work, Dr. Andrew W. Moore, Amir Husain & Cole Stevens
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After seven years of war in Syria, is a diplomatic solution still possible?
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Wednesday marks the seventh anniversary of the ongoing civil war in Syria, and as casualties continue to mount, an end does not appear to be in sight. The United Nations Secur...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
The ChallengerNOTHING moves in the 40 black cabinets in the facility outside Shanghai except the water in the cooling system. But the 10m processing units within crunch through numbers at a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Was Air Force's Media Freeze Justified? Defense Experts Weigh In
Bleak times may be ahead for the relationship between the press and U.S. military branches as officials maintain that operational security should outweigh public outreach, acc...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
