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March 24, 2025 The Trump administration should bring Al Jazeera in line with US law There’s one challenge in the Middle East that President Donald Trump can easily tackle. During his first term, his administration ordered AJ+, a U.S.-based project of the Al Jazeera Media Network,... March 24, 2025 ‘These Tankers Were Iranian’: Baghdad Accuses Tehran of Forging Iraqi Documents to Evade Oil Sanctions False Shipping Manifests: Iranian oil tankers used forged Iraqi documents to smuggle oil, Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani said in a news conference on March 24. Abdel-Ghani... March 24, 2025 ‘Israel Will Defeat Hamas’: IDF Eliminates Two Senior Terror Officials IDF Kills Salah al-Bardawil: The IDF eliminated senior Hamas terrorist Salah al-Bardawil in a targeted airstrike in southern Gaza on March 22. According to an Israeli military statement,... March 24, 2025 Syria’s New Leader Is an Autocrat; Will That Be Good or Bad for Israel and Turkey? Islamist or not, Syria’s self-proclaimed interim president, Ahmad Sharaa, seems like he will do anything to keep power. March 24, 2025 ‘We’re Free People’: Protests Erupt in Turkey Over Arrest of Main Rival to Erdogan Imamoglu Charged: Istanbul MayorEkrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was formally arrested on March 23 and charged with corruption. Imamoglu,... March 24, 2025 Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia. It’s vital to U.S. security. As President Donald Trump pledges to win the artificial intelligence race, send Americans to Mars and sustain U.S. military dominance, we would do well to remember a key reason the United States achieved... March 24, 2025 Gaza doctor widely quoted by major media outlets has deep Hamas ties A Gaza-based doctor who is frequently quoted by major media outlets on the impacts of Hamas’s war with Israel has close familial ties to the terrorist group. Numerous family members of orthopedic surgeon... March 23, 2025 A deported Brown University professor’s Hezbollah ties On March 13, Dr. Racha Alawieh, an assistant professor of medicine at Brown University, was denied entry into the United States and ordered deported back to her native Lebanon. March 22, 2025 IDF Strikes Dozens of Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon After Rockets Fired at Israeli Communities Rockets Fired from Lebanon: Six rockets were fired from Lebanon at the northern Israeli town of Metula on March 22. Three of the projectiles fell short and landed in Lebanese territory,... March 22, 2025 The Unloved Iranian Revolution Excerpt This February Iran’s revolution turned 46. Middle age usually brings a measure of wisdom, as men cast aside aspirations of youth and come to terms with hard truths. But Iran’s Islamists... March 21, 2025 The Big Question: Will American Airpower Crush the Houthis? On March 15, the US began a campaign of airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. US Central Command said it had “initiated a series of operations consisting of precision strikes... March 21, 2025 Israel steps up ground ops in Gaza, threatens Hamas it will take more areas The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued to expand ground operations that began in Gaza on March 19 after conducting renewed airstrikes on the territory on March 18. The moves come slightly more than... March 21, 2025 Two Mobsters Found Guilty of Plotting to Assassinate Iranian American Journalist Masih Alinejad Iran Behind Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Alinejad: A federal district court jury in Manhattan convicted Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov on March 20 for their involvement in a 2022 plot to assassinate dissident Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her New York home. March 21, 2025 SAF Capture the Presidential Palace, Shaking RSF’s Stronghold Mohamed Dagalo — the Sudanese rebel leader also known as ‘Hemedti’ — recently appeared in a video urging his soldiers not to surrender the presidential palace in Khartoum. Now, Sudanese... March 21, 2025 Israel Threatens to Extend IDF Control in Gaza if Hostages Not Released Defense Minister Warns Hamas: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on March 21 that the IDF would “seize additional areas of Gaza” if Hamas continues to hold Israeli hostages.... March 21, 2025 Delayed Vulnerability Analysis Puts America at a Cybersecurity Disadvantage The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is struggling. It faces a growing backlog to process data in its vulnerability repository, which publicly shares information assessing and detailing... March 21, 2025 U.S. Levies Sanctions Against Chinese ‘Teapot’ Oil Refineries for Iranian Oil Purchases Treasury Sanctions Chinese Refineries: The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Chinese “teapot” refinery and its CEO on... March 21, 2025 Iraq’s former PM visits Houthis amid US strikes and Houthi attacks Former Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi visited Sanaa in Yemen to meet with the Iranian-backed Houthis days after the US launched airstrikes on the Houthis. His trip also came as the Houthis... March 21, 2025 Countering the Oct. 7 deniers Jews have long been accustomed to being history’s double victims. We are victims of its most murderous currents and the victims of subsequent attempts to revise, play down or even outright deny these... March 21, 2025 America Needs Israel to Have the JASSM-ER Preparing for future conflicts with well-equipped adversaries, the Pentagon awarded a $122.6 million contract to increase production of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM-ER) and... March 21, 2025 Showcasing Advanced Space Capabilities, China Displays ‘Dogfighting’ Maneuvers in Low Earth Orbit Looking to seize the high ground in a possible military conflict with the United States, China has launched another space race. On March 18, U.S. Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein revealed... March 21, 2025 To Confront China, President Trump Should Target its State-Owned Enterprises The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has turned balance sheets into battlefields, reportedly stealing up to $600 billion per year in intellectual property. The Communist Party of China... March 21, 2025 Ukraine’s Belgorod incursion makes limited gains Days after it withdrew from most of Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine launched a cross-border incursion into neighboring Belgorod Oblast. The operation appears to be much more limited in scale and objectives... March 20, 2025 To save VOA, burn down the ‘firewall’ Excerpt “Voice of America” is an inspiring brand, but the taxpayer-funded news outlet’s work is neither an inspiring nor an accurate representation of America’s voice. On Sunday, VOA employees... March 20, 2025 Turkey Cracks Down on Demonstrators Protesting Arrest of Istanbul Mayor Arrests of Demonstrators: Turkish authorities arrested more than 100 protesters after thousands of Turkish citizens demonstrated throughout March 19 and March 20 against the politically... March 20, 2025 With Lapsing Sanctions Waiver, Trump Tightens the Vise on Russian Energy The Trump administration landed a quiet but forceful blow against Russian energy exports last week. On March 12, the U.S. Treasury Department let a Biden-era sanctions waiver lapse, effectively prohibiting... March 20, 2025 U.S. Sanctions Should Target Tehran’s Top Economic Operatives The Department of the Treasury’s sanctioning of Iranian Petroleum Minister Mohsen Paknejad marks a U.S. return to the “maximum pressure” tactic of targeting top Iranian economic officials. At the... March 20, 2025 Trump Reportedly Gives Iran Two-Month Deadline to Negotiate Nuclear Deal Letter Seeks Direct Negotiations With Iran: President Donald Trump reportedly gave Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei two months to reach a nuclear deal with the United... March 20, 2025 IDF Partially Retakes Netzarim Corridor, Hamas and Houthis Target Israel IDF Retakes Netzarim: The IDF confirmed on March 19 that it had regained military control over parts of the Netzarim Corridor, which runs from Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to the... March 20, 2025 Following Launch of October 7 Task Force, Turkey and Qatar Should Feel the Heat The U.S. Justice Department just launched an October 7 joint task force. Now, all eyes should be on Turkey and Qatar. March 20, 2025 Crossroads of Competition March 20, 2025 Trump should not surrender in the information war against Putin’s Russia As President Trump signed an executive order gutting the U.S. Agency for Global Media — which runs Voice of America and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty — Washington is reportedly considering lifting sanctions on the Russian state-owned media outlet RT. That would be a mistake. ... March 20, 2025 Profiles of commanders in the new Syrian army’s regional divisions On January 29, Syria’s new leadership announced the dissolution of the Assad regime’s Syrian Arab Army and launched a unification process to integrate various armed militias into a single national... March 19, 2025 Iran urges the Houthis to de-escalate ‘tensions’ Iran has made private requests to Yemen’s Houthis to “cool tensions” in the Red Sea, according to Reuters. The report states that two senior Iranian officials said Iran sent a message to... March 19, 2025 UNESCO Remains Detrimental to U.S. Interests Despite Attempts at Reform The clock is ticking. Wednesday, March 19, marks the halfway point for the Trump administration’s 90-day review of U.S. contributions to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization... March 19, 2025 Israel Announces New Ground Operations in Gaza IDF Expanding Buffer Zones: The IDF announced on March 19 that it had restarted ground operations in the Gaza Strip following renewed airstrikes that killed several Gazan terrorist... March 19, 2025 IDF operations in Lebanon and Hezbollah casualty announcements over the past week Israel conducted a series of air strikes and military operations against Hezbollah inside Lebanon over the course of last week. Between March 13 and 17, Israeli aerial, artillery, and ground operations... March 19, 2025 Turkey Arrests Presidential Candidate Ekrem Imamoglu It was, according to Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party, a “coup against our next president.” In the early hours of March 19, Turkish police arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of... March 19, 2025 Syria’s New Constitution: A Shift Toward Unchecked Presidential Powers Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa said that Syria deserves a political system in which no “single ruler makes arbitrary decisions.” Yet now, as the country’s... March 19, 2025 Israel Signs Deal to Give Azerbaijani State Oil Company Gas Exploration Rights Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company Will Oversee Exploration Activities: Israel has awarded Azerbaijan’s state oil company, SOCAR, gas exploration rights in Israel’s exclusive... March 19, 2025 Aiming for Parity With U.S., China Announces Increase in Science and Technology Spending Having watched U.S. science spending stall out, China is stepping on the gas. March 19, 2025 Pressure Putin First, President Trump muscled Volodymyr Zelensky into accepting, without security guarantees or other preconditions, a 30-day ceasefire in the brutal war that Vladimir Putin has been waging against Ukraine... March 19, 2025 Israel’s New Chief of Staff Faces First Test In the early hours of March 18, the Israel Defense Forces began a round of airstrikes in Gaza targeting Hamas, the largest since a ceasefire that began on January 19 and ended on March 1. March 18, 2025 Putin Demands End to Western Support for Ukraine in Phone Call With Trump Putin Calls for Complete Cessation of Military Aid to Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded the “complete cessation” of all foreign military aid and intelligence... March 18, 2025 Israel strikes Gaza again, but can Hamas ever be defeated? Dubbed ‘Operation Strength and Sword’ it began with airstrikes in Gaza. These are the latest strikes since the ceasefire began in mid-January. The ceasefire saw 33 Israeli hostages released in... March 18, 2025 UK Parliament Presented With Harrowing Report on Hamas’s October 7 Atrocities Hamas’s Primary Goal Was to Slaughter Israelis: A new 318-page report presented to the British Parliament on March 18 outlined Hamas’s extensive atrocities in Israel on October... March 18, 2025 U.S. Preemptively Strikes Houthi Positions in Yemen and Signals to Iran “To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP,” President Donald Trump warned the Iran-backed terror group in Yemen as U.S. Central Command launched a large-scale operation... March 18, 2025 Hezbollah Reneging on Surrendering Its Arms Hezbollah and its allies – Speaker Nabih Berri, former Minister Najib Mikati, and Hezbollah ministers in the previous cabinet – all signed the ceasefire agreement with Israel that ended the war and... March 18, 2025 Israeli Strikes on Gaza Resume as Hamas Refuses to Release Hostages IDF Targets Hamas and PIJ Members and Infrastructure Following the refusal of Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages it holds captive in Gaza, less than half of whom are believed... March 18, 2025 Syrian authorities continue crackdown on Hezbollah and its affiliates Tensions have once again flared along Syria’s western border with Lebanon, following intense clashes in February when the newly formed Syrian army deployed reinforcements to Al Qusayr in western...

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