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Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and GoogleIt is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring hundreds of cellphones in th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Move over, Bahrain? Iraq signals interest in better ties with Israel
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That Israel and the Sunni-Arab Gulf states cooperate closely is the Middle East’s worst-kept secret. Despite the absence of formal diplomatic relations, everybody knows Jerusa...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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'Nuclear Clock is Ticking... Very Slowly, and on Purpose' - Iran Expert
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The crumbling nuclear agreement lost yet another cornerstone this Monday, with the Iranian announcement that it is expediting uranium enrichment – above the level that was set...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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"A nasty, brutal fight": what a US-Iran war would look like
A deadly opening attack. Nearly untraceable, ruthless proxies spreading chaos on multiple continents. Costly miscalculations. And thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — k...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump team weighs giving China a get-out-of-jail free card on IranThe State Department is seriously considering using an Obama-era loophole to allow China to import oil from Iran, violating the Trump administration’s pledge to bring Iranian ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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US-Backed Syrian Forces Pledge to End Child Recruitment
A major armed group in Syria has committed to identifying and releasing young boys and girls currently within its ranks, and put in place preventative, protection and discipli...
By Nicholas Heras
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Whether the U.S. fails or succeeds in Syria, tough choices lie ahead
As the perennial jousting between the U.S. and Iran focuses on drones, nuclear enrichment and safe passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, Washington is strugglin...
By Nicholas Heras
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
US keeps imposing sanctions, but how well do they work?Imposing sanctions has become the Trump administration's go-to move to signal to the country and the world that it's doing something about a problem. After President Donald Tr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump sanctions on Iranian foreign minister could expose the real face of the country's 'charmer-in-chief'
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The Trump administration is expected to sanction Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, any day now, and the announcement could offer a rare glimpse into the internal ...
By Sam Dorshimer
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump's latest Iran sanctions target $200B economic empire of supreme leaderThe Trump administration's latest sanctions against Iran reinstate an embargo on some of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's front companies that President Barack Obama lifted as pa...
By Sam Dorshimer
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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
