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Officials Say Peace Accord Between Sudan and Israel Is Already at Risk of Unraveling
A landmark agreement between Sudan and Israel to begin normalizing relations is at risk of unraveling just over a month after it was announced by President Trump, revealing a ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Iran’s Nuclear Efforts Pose Growing Threat to Its Foes Despite Setbacks
Friday’s killing of one of Iran’s most important nuclear scientists has dealt a setback to the country’s nuclear program, which had staged a partial rebound after the 2015 nuc...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump Covid-19 diagnosis puts America's friends and foes on alert
Ripples of alarm, and some glee, coursed around the globe after President Donald Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis emerged, with U.S. allies and foes weighing whether the president's...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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U.S.-Iran relations at a crucial crossroad as nuclear deal hangs on election outcome
Voters in November’s presidential election will choose how the United States deals with Iran and its nuclear capabilities, according to multiple government officials and exper...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The UAE-Israel deal is Trump's first genuine foreign policy success, experts say
The groundbreaking agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has delivered a political lifeline to Israel's embattled prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and repres...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump, US face pivotal UN vote on Iran
The Trump administration’s Iran strategy will face a key test this week as the United States calls for a vote at the United Nations on its resolution to extend an arms embargo...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Elections provide U.S. and Iran a brief window to lower tensions: think tank
The United States and Iran will have a brief window between their upcoming presidential elections in which to ease dangerous tensions, according to a new report from a Washing...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Kaleigh Thomas & Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Mysterious explosions keep happening in Iran. Israel is likely behind it.
For weeks, Iran has faced a deadly wave of explosions and fires at sensitive military and civilian sites, including one incident that caused immense damage to an important nuc...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Why Jewish Americans are shifting position on Israel
"I've had people tell me, ‘Things have shifted more in the past two weeks than I’ve seen them shift in the past ten years,’” Emily Mayer said. Mayer is the co-founder and poli...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Suspicions Mount Of Foreign Hand In Fire At Sensitive Iranian Nuclear Site
There is growing support among outside security experts for the notion that an "incident" at Iran's main nuclear-enrichment facility last week was an act of sabotage in a shad...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s foreign friends race to lock in gains
Israel might start annexing territory claimed by the Palestinians. Taiwan is pushing for a historic free trade agreement. North Korea is desperate for sanctions relief. And Po...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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China emerges as potential strain on US-Israel relationship
Increasingly close ties between China and Israel risk straining the special relationship Israel has with the U.S., especially as Washington ramps up its feud with Beijing over...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Democrats demand intel on coronavirus origins
Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly “enormous” evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab. Oth...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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U.S. Could Do More to Deter Iran Gray Zone Strategy, Experts Say
When American administrations develop a deterrence strategy for Iran in the Middle East, a model to follow could be how Israel runs a covert military campaign against Iran in ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Israel’s shadow campaign offers lessons for U.S. in standoff with Iran, report says
Israel’s unacknowledged military campaign against Iranian targets in Syria could provide a model for the United States as it struggles to contain Tehran’s network of armed pro...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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How the Pandemic Will End
Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more wh...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Richard Danzig
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This Is a Particularly Bad Time for U.S.-Iran Tensions to Flare
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
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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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
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