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February 1, 2018 Boko Haram Financial Assessment Boko Haram (“Western education is forbidden”) is reeling under the pressure of Nigerian military operations, but its mobility and relatively low-cost operations in poorly governed ter... January 30, 2018 With Strategic Dialogue, the U.S. Can Hold Qatar Accountable on Terror Finance Today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, along with their Qatari counterparts, will co-chair the inaugural... January 26, 2018 National Elections in Iraq Set for May This week, the Iraqi parliament... January 24, 2018 Saudi Women Benefit from New Reforms, but Still Face an Uneven Playing Field Last week, women entered sports stadiums in Saudi Arabia for the first time to watch Jeddah-based soccer club al-Ahli thrash al-Batin by... January 24, 2018 Treasury Sanctions North Korea and China while Russia Escapes Today, the Treasury Department issued sanctions against 15 North Korean overseas representatives, two Chinese firms facilitating... January 19, 2018 Tillerson Revises U.S. Policy on Syria In a speech Wednesday at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson articulated the... January 18, 2018 President Trump Calls Out Russia for Helping North Korean Sanctions Evasion “Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” President Trump... January 12, 2018 U.S. Designates Iranian Chief Justice The U.S. Treasury Department designated Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani today under non-nuclear author... January 11, 2018 At Least Five Iranian Protesters Die in Regime Prisons At least five Iranians arrested during the ongoing protests have reportedly died in the regime’s n... January 10, 2018 Iran Spends $16 Billion Annually to Support Terrorists and Rogue Regimes “Leave Gaza, leave Lebanon, my life for Iran,” chanted a crowd of pro... January 9, 2018 Thirteen Years into the Abbas Presidency, Corruption and Autocracy Dominate the West Bank On this day in 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority (PA). In his inaugural address, Abbas hailed the “peac... January 5, 2018 U.S. Sanctions Four More Venezuelan Military Officials Today, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on four current or former Venezuelan generals for their involvement in c... January 3, 2018 Landmark NY Trial Proves Turkish Government Complicity in Iran’s Sanctions-Busting Today, a federal jury in the Southern District of New York returned a ... December 27, 2017 UK designates Hasm and Liwa al-Thawra as terrorist groups, paving the way for the U.S. to follow The UK announced last week that it added the Egyptian groups Hasm and Liwa al-Thawra to its list of proscribed terrorist organizations. According to a... December 22, 2017 This Christmas, Remember Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson Pastor Andrew Brunson will be spending his second Christmas in a Turkish jail, unfairly held by the Erdogan government on... December 22, 2017 The Kremlin’s Bad Week This week, the Kremlin found itself facing American pressure on multiple new fronts, in domains ranging from national strategy to military assistance and human rights. On Monday, the Tru... December 22, 2017 North Korean Hackers Target Cryptocurrency Exchange as Part of Larger Economic Warfare Strategy Yapizon, which operates the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit, announced on Tuesday that it would suspend all trading activity an... December 22, 2017 Tehran Upholds Death Sentence Against Iranian Academic A group of United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday called on Iran to annul its deat... December 21, 2017 Yemen’s Houthi rebels target journalists Yemen’s Houthi militants killed four journalists last wee... December 18, 2017 House Bill Elevates Civilian Cybersecurity Agency The House passed the... December 13, 2017 Iranian Budget Hints at British Ransom Payment This past weekend, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson departed... December 1, 2017 U.S. Calls for Oil Ban and Complete Diplomatic Isolation of North Korea The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday following North Korea’s third intercontinental ballist... November 22, 2017 Congress Supports Financial Transparency for Iranian Transactions The House Financial Services Committee approved last week the Strengthening Oversight of Iran’s... November 21, 2017 U.S. Government Warns of Continued North Korean Cyber Activities The U.S. government last week issued two technical alerts on North Korea&rs... November 16, 2017 Iran’s Repression of Foreign Journalists Intensifies Iran’s targeting of foreign journalists has intensified. In recent weeks and months, the regime has conducted cyber attacks against Iranian journalists abroad, launched a criminal investiga... November 9, 2017 U.S. Backs Saudi Claim about Iranian Missile Support to Yemeni Rebels Regional tensions escalated as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for an attempted... November 9, 2017 Turkey’s Premier Visits Washington Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is in Washington this week... November 8, 2017 Treasury Department Cuts Off Bank of Dandong The Treasury Department on Thursday issued its final rule barring a Chinese bank from the U.S. financial syste... November 6, 2017 Wakeup Call for Chinese Banks on North Korea Sanctions The Treasury Department on Thursday issued an advisory on North Korea’s us... November 3, 2017 The S-400: Erdogan’s Fail-safe Moscow and Ankara continue to signal that the $2.5-billion... November 2, 2017 House Passes Sanctions Targeting Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ballistic missile program and its enablers. The bill –... November 1, 2017 New UN Report Highlights Iran’s Continued Human Rights Abuses Iran’s repression of its own people has continued largely unabated, the United Nations indicated in a new report presented to the UN General Assembl... October 31, 2017 Erdogan’s Power Grab Continues with Municipalities The mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest metropolis with almost 15 million inhabitants,... October 27, 2017 North Korean Human Rights Abuses Both the State Department and a non-governmental human rights organization issued new reports yesterday on North Korea’s abhorrent human rights abuses. Concurrently, the Treasury Department... October 25, 2017 Congress Moves to Isolate Hezbollah and Sanction its Patrons This week, Congress will consider three pieces of legislation aimed at cutting off the funding streams that Hezbollah uses to fill it... October 20, 2017 Implications of the New IRGC Sanctions The U.S. Treasury designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) under Exec... October 16, 2017 Removing Sanctions While Retaining Leverage in Sudan Though President Trump’s decision to decertify th... October 11, 2017 Worst Crisis in Decades for Turkey and U.S. The U.S. and Turkey suspended visa services for each other’s citizens this weekend. The crisis repre... October 6, 2017 Diplomatic Spat Erupts Between Ankara and U.S. Over Arrest A controversy erupted this week between Washington and Ankara over Turkey’s arrest of a U.S. cons... October 5, 2017 Fearing an Independent Kurdistan, Erdogan Travels to Tehran Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Iran on Wednesday for meetings with the... October 5, 2017 Iran’s GDP Growth Back to the Normal Level Iran’s Parliament Research Center (PRC), an official arm of the country’s legislature, or majlis, has forecast the coun... October 4, 2017 Time to Designate Hezbollah as a Transnational Criminal Organization Intended to fight transnational organized crime, Executive Orders 13581 and... October 3, 2017 IS Using Front Companies to Support Terrorism As the Islamic State (IS) has been beaten back in Iraq and ... September 29, 2017 Referendum Triggers Turkish Vitriol against Kurds – and Jews Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly on Monday in favor of a referendum on independence for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) an... September 27, 2017 Preventing a “Fait Accompli” in Syria Secretary of State Rex Tillerson... September 20, 2017 Iran Is Not in ‘Technical Compliance’ with the JCPOA Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared on Sunday that Iran is in &ld... September 20, 2017 Regulators Struggling to Handle Illicit Finance Risks of Fintech Innovation Earlier this month, China’s financial aut... September 19, 2017 Israel Completes Largest Exercise in 20 Years, Setting Sights on Hezbollah Last Thursday, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) concluded its largest military... September 18, 2017 Rouhani Will Seek to Divide the West at the UN General Assembly Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will deliver his fifth annual address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) this Wednesday. Rouhani is likely to emphasize tw... September 15, 2017 Turkish Officials Charged in Iran Sanctions-Busting Case U.S. authorities last week charged Turkey’s fo...

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