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SDF arrest 5 ISIS sleeper cell members in Manbij, Raqqa
Counterterrorism units linked to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested five members of the so-called Islamic State among sleeper cells in Raqqa and Manbij, a s...
By Nicholas Heras
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Warns of More Iran Sanctions, But Not Much Is Left for U.S. to TargetPresident Donald Trump is threatening Iran with additional sanctions on Monday, but there’s not much left for the U.S. to target because most of the Islamic Republic’s economy...
By Peter Harrell
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Three months on, landless IS still a threat in Syria
The Islamic State group may have lost its "caliphate", but three months later, experts have warned the jihadists are still attacking fighters and fields in Syria to show they ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran, warns U.S. ‘restraint’ is limitedThe Trump administration targeted Iran’s supreme leader with new sanctions on Monday, using one of the few tools available to punish Iran for downing a U.S. drone after Presid...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
What’s the difference between Indo Pacific and Asia-Pacific? Regional control for the US or ChinaIndo Pacific? Asia-Pacific? Asean Indo Pacific? The ongoing debate on diplomatic nomenclature was in sharp focus on Monday as leading geopolitical researchers waded into the ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Imposes Sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, OthersThe Trump administration ordered new sanctions that aim to freeze the assets of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office and several Iranian military commanders and include plans ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Goes After Iran’s Supreme LeaderPresident Donald Trump has declined to strike Iran for now over the downing of an American drone. Instead, he chose to retaliate by reaching again for a favorite tool: economi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Sanctions Iran’s Supreme Leader, but to What End?With the flourish of his pen on Monday, President Trump imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as everyone in Khamenei’s office o...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Is There Still a Deal to Be Done With Iran?
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The United States stepped right up to the brink of striking Iran over a downed American drone—and then abruptly stepped back. Yet the conditions that have stoked weeks of tens...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Pompeo to push Iran pressure campaign, oil sanctions compliance while in India: State officialUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to India next week, but will offer no relief from oil sanctions to what was a top Iranian export market just two months ago, a se...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump’s Iran Response Underlines Republican Rift Over National Security
President Trump’s decision to pull back on a planned military strike against Iran has divided Republicans, pitting hawks who criticized his midoperation retreat against a noni...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pence puts off China speech sequel ahead of Trump-Xi talks
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday called off a planned China speech that had been cast as a sequel to a blistering broadside he delivered in October to avoid exacerbati...
By Ely Ratner
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What Will Follow Trump’s Cancelled Strike on Iran?
Shortly after 4 a.m. on Thursday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired a missile at a U.S. drone flying near the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic gateway for world oil supplies. Th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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In The News
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Administration ponders more Iran sanctions, but hasn't imposed them yet despite Trump's claimOne day after coming within minutes of military strikes on Iran, the Trump administration has backed off its threat and is now weighing imposing additional sanctions against T...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are intensifying. What might come next?
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The downing of a U.S. drone by Tehran is the latest salvo fuelling fears of war between the U.S. and Iran. Tensions have been rising over the past year since U.S. President ...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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In The News
Technology & National Security
The rare earths brawlIn 2010, China and Japan got into a mighty fishing kerfuffle, and Beijing responded by halting exports of rare earth minerals, elements crucial to a slew of military and comme...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon Nickel-and-Dimed Its Way Into Losing a DroneWednesday’s downing of a U.S. drone by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard exposes a weakness in U.S. operations. The United States has some of the world’s most sophisticated drones fo...
By Paul Scharre
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Hong Kong’s Uprising Rattles the Mainland
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Smelling blood, the protesters thronged in greater numbers. Demonstrators against an extradition bill in Hong Kong swelled on June 16 even after the city’s political leader, C...
By Jude Blanchette
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump downplays Iranian shootdown of U.S. surveillance droneAn unarmed U.S. surveillance drone was shot down by a missile fired from Iran, the Pentagon said Thursday, but U.S. and Iranian military officials disputed whether the unmanne...
By Chris Dougherty
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security
Likely Pentagon Nominee Jumps Into Iran CrisisArmy Secretary Mark Esper won’t have much time to train up as President Donald Trump’s newest acting Pentagon chief. The U.S. Army veteran and defense industry lobbyist, who a...
By Jim Townsend
