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April 10, 2026 U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Negotiations With Iran Do Not Extend to Hezbollah in Lebanon “The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!” So declared President Donald Trump with regard to the representatives Iran dispatched to Pakistan to negotiate with a U.S. team led... April 10, 2026 How to assess America’s 40 days of war against Iran Washington and Tehran are both arguing that they were victorious after 40 days of fighting. A detailed analysis, however, suggests a more nuanced picture in which American forces degraded Iran’s core... April 10, 2026 Trump must secure Iran’s irreversible nuclear dismantlement or resume strikes The United States and Israel have delivered a near-devastating blow to the Iranian regime. In a sustained campaign of precision strikes, they have crippled Iran’s top military and political leadership,... April 10, 2026 The Islamic Republic of Iran Attacks U.S. and Allied Critical Infrastructure Iranian hackers are targeting industrial equipment and causing operational disruptions to multiple types of critical infrastructure, warned the U.S. government on April 7. Despite the ceasefire announced... April 10, 2026 Audit Finds Federal Aviation Administration Delinquent in Cybersecurity Practices For years, America’s air traffic has run on systems the federal government knows are not secure. The Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has published an... April 10, 2026 Syria focuses on diplomacy amid Iran war On April 9, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad Hassan al Shaibani traveled to Turkey, where he met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. It was Damascus’s second meeting with... April 10, 2026 Why Hungary’s two-faced Orbán deserves to lose his re-election bid Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary is on the ropes in his latest bid for reelection, down by double-digit margins in the latest polls. So he brought in a ringer. Vice President JD Vance, a star... April 9, 2026 Hezbollah at War: What Comes Next for Lebanon and the Region April 9, 2026 How Trump Miscalculated in Iran Donald Trump threatened to end Iranian civilization, then sued for peace. If the two-week cease-fire is extended, which seems likely, the extra time won’t resolve the conflict’s underlying... April 9, 2026 From Static Inventory to Real-Time Defense: Why the SBOM conversation has to change now When the next widely exploitable vulnerability appears, your organization will have far less time to respond than the processes you have built were designed to handle. That is not a prediction. It is what... April 9, 2026 Erdogan’s words don’t pull the trigger — but they load the gun The April 7 terrorist attack outside Israel’s consulate in Istanbul should end any lingering illusions about the consequences of Turkey’s political climate under President Recep Tayyip... April 9, 2026 UK Highlights Espionage Activities of Russian Submarines Near Britain Defense Secretary Says UK Tracked Russian Subs: UK Defense Secretary John Healey revealed on April 9 that the British armed forces, in cooperation with Norway and other allied nations, had tracked three Russian submarines off the British coast for over a month. Healey said that the purpose of the operation was to gather information about underwater infrastructure, including cables and pipelines. “Our armed forces left them in no doubt that they were being monitored, that their movements were not covert, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin planned,” Healey said. April 9, 2026 Ceasefire with Tehran Doesn’t Guarantee Peace Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran’s ruling regime, the portents that it will last the course are hardly positive. The White House has already... April 9, 2026 Israel Partners With U.S. To Accelerate Arrow Interceptor Production Following a lethal Iranian ballistic missile strike in Haifa, Israel announced on April 6 a plan to partner with a U.S.-based manufacturer to accelerate production of Arrow missile defense interceptors.... April 9, 2026 Washington Should Not Compromise — It Has The Upper Hand Over Iran A ceasefire is not peace. It is not the formal end of hostilities. It is a pause. General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made that unmistakably clear at a Pentagon press conference... April 8, 2026 Double-dealing Pakistan is the danger looming over critical US-Iran talks President Donald Trump’s two-week cease-fire with Iran is a huge gamble — and allowing Pakistan to act as the go-between only raises the stakes. Pakistan, after all, is the nation where... April 8, 2026 The law that devoured itself *This article was originally published in French ... April 8, 2026 US, Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire in exchange for reopening of Strait of Hormuz After 39 days of fighting between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, the US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire. While there are conflicting reports regarding... April 8, 2026 Know thine enemy During World War II, my father served in the South Pacific. Who did he think he was fighting? I know from reviewing his letters back home that it wasn’t “the Imperial Japanese government.” He... April 8, 2026 The American AI Sector Bands Together To Stop Chinese Theft China’s effort to steal American artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to turn foes into friends. Three American AI firms locked in an intense competition for market share — OpenAI, Anthropic,... April 8, 2026 Israel Launches Large Wave of Strikes Against Hezbollah IDF Strikes Reported Against Multiple Hezbollah Positions: The IDF announced on April 8 that it had carried out the “largest attack across Lebanon” against Hezbollah targets... April 8, 2026 What the Kremlin fears more than Ukrainian drones Major banks across Russia on Friday reported major service breakdowns. Their apps crashed, ATMs stopped working, and other capabilities collapsed. The outages caused major complications in everyday... April 8, 2026 Despite ceasefire, Iran and its militias continue attacking regional states (April 2–8 updates) Iran and its allied militias launched numerous drones and missiles against regional countries between April 2 and April 8, continuing attacks even after a ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United... April 7, 2026 Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Chemical Weapons Program Israel has been systematically striking key Iranian facilities that support or could support the development of chemical weapons. In its latest sorties, on April 7, Israel struck the... April 7, 2026 Tehran Is Repositioning Its Terror Proxies for a Domestic Crackdown After spending years exporting its influence, the ruling regime in Iran is now importing its regional proxies to assist with any crackdown against a revival of the mass protests that resulted in the deaths of... April 7, 2026 Attacks on Iran Intensify Ahead of Trump Deadline To Reopen Strait of Hormuz Bombs Fall Across Iran: Strikes against Islamic Republic targets intensified on April 7 as President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz... April 7, 2026 Rubio Instructs State Department To Actively Combat Adversarial Information Warfare America is prepared to “take an assertive stance” against information warfare conducted by its adversaries, according to a leaked cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The New... April 7, 2026 Hamas Given Ultimatum on Disarmament After Group Signals Unwillingness To Cooperate President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace (BOP) initiative, whose first task is overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire in Gaza, has reportedly given Hamas until the week’s end... April 7, 2026 Gunmen fire at police outside of Israeli consulate in Istanbul Three gunmen fired on police officers near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 7. The firefight left one attacker dead, two police officers wounded, and two suspects in custody. Footage uploaded to... April 7, 2026 Iranian ballistic missile cluster munitions strike dozens of sites in Israeli cities Iran’s increasing use of ballistic missiles containing cluster munitions has spread damage and harm across Israel. On April 6, as many as 50 sites were impacted by missiles and their cluster... April 7, 2026 Iraq’s Emboldened Terror Groups Shelly Kittleson, an American journalist, was kidnapped off the streets of Baghdad on March 31 and is now a bargaining chip for the militia that took her. It’s a tragedy on replay.... April 7, 2026 Iraq’s bake sale for the Islamic Republic Iran, under financial isolation, is turning to an old friend: Iraqi cash. Through informal financial channels and networks, currency-filled envelopes are moving across Iraq into Iran under... April 7, 2026 Hezbollah Emerged from Iran’s Revolution, Not “Resistance” to Israel A false claim, now common in Western media and academia, portrays Hezbollah as having emerged in response to Israel’s 1982 invasion and subsequent occupation of Lebanon. In reality, Hezbollah arose in... April 6, 2026 5 Men Now Running Iran The joint U.S.-Israeli campaign has eliminated the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and his son and successor Mojtaba has yet to appear publicly. However, the regime remains intact. The... April 6, 2026 Egypt Welcomes ‘Grain and Energy Hub’ Initiative from Russia Amid intensifying great-power competition, Egypt is no longer hedging quietly between the United States and its rivals. On April 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Egyptian Foreign Minister... April 6, 2026 Iran’s Largest Petrochemical Complex Struck by IDF Israel Strikes Iran’s Largest Petrochemical Plant: The Israeli Air Force launched strikes against Iran’s largest petrochemical plant, Asaluyeh, on April 6. According to Israeli... April 6, 2026 New Standards Aim to Protect Medical Patients from the ‘Internet of Things’ Cybersecurity in healthcare may finally be getting its overdue visit to the doctor’s office. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing new cybersecurity guidance for... April 6, 2026 Time to Lift the Veil on Foreign Funding in K-12 Schools State lawmakers in Georgia just won a major battle in the long war to reveal foreign influence in America’s K-12 public schools. A new bill, which recently passed both chambers of the state legislature,... April 6, 2026 Turkey the new Iran? Ankara’s growing challenge to Western interests As Iran and its proxies take a beating from American and Israeli forces, observers are questioning whether Turkey is waiting in the wings to emerge as the region’s next “bogeyman.” The answer is... April 6, 2026 What the 2026 Intelligence Assessment Gets Right—and Wrong America’s adversaries are counting on one thing: that the United States and its national security apparatus will continue underestimating the threat they pose. This year’s Annual Threat Assessment does... April 6, 2026 IDF: Palestinian terrorists violate Gaza ceasefire 22 times since start of Iran war While the United States and Israel continue to carry out combined strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not halted its strikes against Hamas and other Palestinian... April 3, 2026 Iran downs US fighter jet, 1 crew member recovered, rescue operation ongoing for second Iran reportedly shot down a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle on April 3, marking the first confirmed loss of a manned American fighter jet inside Iranian territory since the start of Operation Epic Fury... April 3, 2026 Israeli goals in Lebanon war shift from imminently disarming Hezbollah to reestablishing South Lebanon Security Zone The renewed Lebanon war between Israel and Hezbollah that began on March 2 is now over a month old, with little change in the overall picture or disposition of the main actors. However, Israeli officials... April 3, 2026 Congress Targets Advanced Chip-Making Equipment To Stifle Chinese Progress in AI Race Congress is seeking to lock China out of the global advanced chip-making market. Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Andy Kim (D-NJ), along with Representative Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), introduced a... April 3, 2026 The Broken Promise of the Panama Papers, Ten Years On Excerpt ... April 2, 2026 Hezbollah Likely Employing FPV Drones Against IDF Video footage emerged Tuesday that appears to show Hezbollah attacking two Israeli Namer armored personnel carriers and a military truck with first-person view (FPV) drones. These attacks follow Hezbollah... April 2, 2026 UK Convenes Meeting on Reopening Strait of Hormuz as Trump Reiterates Warning to Iran in National Address UK Hosts Meeting of 41 Countries on Hormuz: The United Kingdom convened a virtual meeting of 41 countries on April 2 on proposed coalition efforts to manage the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that plans to secure the strait would be implemented only after a ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran. “We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage,” UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said. April 2, 2026 How to Tackle Venezuela’s (and the World’s) ‘Odious Debt’ Problem Nicolas Maduro is gone in Venezuela, but the country is a wreck—vast numbers of its people have fled, its infrastructure is in ruins, and it is drowning in debt. A return to democracy is vital... April 2, 2026 The War in Iran Is Painful for Poland. It May Also Be in Poland’s Interest. *This article was originally published in Polish ... April 2, 2026 Iran and proxies fire fewer total projectiles, increase accuracy in attacks on region (March 28–April 1 updates) Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones, missiles, and rockets against regional countries between March 28 and April 1. There were nearly 90 incidents in this period, including distinct...

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