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Overnight Brief: April 9, 2021
Read Full BriefToday In Issues:
FDD Research & Analysis
- "OPCW Member States Must Counter Russian Obstruction," FDD Memo
- "A Chance to Stop Syria and Russia From Using Chemical Weapons," Foreign Policy
- "The Biden Administration Shouldn’t Make Any More Concessions to the Taliban," The Dispatch
- "Analysis: Al Qaeda continues to operate throughout Afghanistan," FDD's Long War Journal
- "Iron Dome developers set the record straight on its evolution," The Jerusalem Post
- "Iran presidential candidate gives racist/sexist rant," The Jerusalem Post
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- US 'monitoring' as Iran sends fuel tankers to Venezuela in defiance of sanctions
- MEF's A.J. Caschetta: Does Iran even need spies in academia?
- Turkey summons Italian envoy after Draghi calls Erdogan dictator
- Israel to tell ICC it does not recognise court's authority
- Iran releases South Korean oil tanker seized over frozen funds
- Kim compares North Korea’s economic woes to 1990s famine
- U.S. blacklists Chinese entities it says are aiding weapons program
- Bloomberg’s Hal Brands: China’s arrogance is uniting its rivals
- Manila confronts Beijing’s ‘utter disregard’ for law in South China Sea
- Russian force on Ukraine border larger than any time since 2014, U.S. says
- WaPo Editorial: Putin again threatens war with Ukraine. The West must be ready to respond.
- UN chief warns that use of IEDs is increasing globally