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March 21, 2019 Saudi Arabia Begins Trial of Detained Rights Activists Criminal trials... March 19, 2019 As Threats Expand, U.S. Attack Submarine Fleet Shrinks In the fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget proposal it submitted last week, the Dep... March 13, 2019 Abbas Appoints a New Prime Minister Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday appointed his long-time advisor, Mohammad Shtayyeh, to serve as the next Palestinian prime minister. Selecting Shtayyeh, a pragmatic Palestinian... March 11, 2019 Administration Requests $750 Billion for Defense Today, the Trump administration announced that it is requesting $750 billion for national defense as part of its f... March 8, 2019 Chabahar Port Deal Threatens to Capsize Iran Sanctions Afghanistan sent India... March 8, 2019 Growing Missile Threats Demand Increased Investments in U.S. Missile Defense According to a press report this week, the Pentagon may request $500 million less... March 7, 2019 State Department Adds Iranian-backed Militia in Iraq to Terror List The State Department listed Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and its leader, Akram al-Kabi, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDG... March 6, 2019 New UN Report Documents Iran’s Continued Human Rights Abuses Iran’s domestic repression, particularly its executions of child offenders, continues largely unabated, the United Nations indicated in a new... March 6, 2019 Ebrahim Raisi to Head Iran’s Judiciary Iran’s judiciary confirmed on Sunday that former presidential candi... March 6, 2019 U.S. Deploys THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile System to Israel The Department of Defense (DOD) deployed the... March 4, 2019 New Legislation Aims to Recognize Israeli Sovereignty over the Golan House and... March 4, 2019 U.S. and South Korea Downsize Combined Military Exercises The Department of Defense (DOD)... March 1, 2019 The U.S. Should Immediately Develop Intermediate-Range Missiles In his annual state-of-the-nation speech last week, President Vladimir Putin eliminated any lingering doubt regarding Russia’s i... February 28, 2019 Trump Walks Away from Kim in Hanoi The second U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi... February 27, 2019 U.S. Should Indict and Sanction Cyber Adversaries The United States both indicted and... February 27, 2019 North Korea’s Use of Slave Labor Will Limit Any Prospective Sanctions Relief Ahead of his summit in Hanoi with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un,... February 25, 2019 Doha’s Dangerous Drift Towards Iran Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani last week sent Iranian President Hassan Rouhani a congratulatory cable in honor of the 40th... February 14, 2019 Rouhani Remarks Point to Need for Improved Homeland Missile Defense In remarks this week celebrating the 40th ann... February 14, 2019 Continued Iranian Ballistic Missile Activities Require Unified Response Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz identified missile proli... February 14, 2019 Huawei Breaks the Law… Again Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei stole patented technology and v... February 12, 2019 U.S. Reporting Requirements May Constrain European Trade Channel with Iran Last month, Britain, France, and Germany launched a special trade channel that aims to... February 12, 2019 Europe Takes Steps to Bypass U.S. Sanctions on Iran Last month, foreign ministers from the E3 (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) hera... February 7, 2019 Erdogan’s Eyes on Turkey’s Largest Private Bank Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Tuesd... February 6, 2019 Iran’s Support for al-Qaeda is Incompatible with FATF Standards Last week, a little-noticed map published in the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Int... February 4, 2019 The Administration Must Compete with Russia and China in Venezuela After recognizing Juan Guaido last month as interim president of Venezuela, the Trump administration began to support the Guaido gove... February 1, 2019 New Government Demonstrates Hezbollah’s Dominance of Lebanon February 1, 2019 Department of Justice Reveals Effort Targeting North Korean Hackers On Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed an ongoing e... February 1, 2019 Turkey Doubles Down on Persecution of U.S. Consular Employees On January 30, a Turkish court convicted Hamza Ulucay, an employee of the U.S. consulate in Adana... January 30, 2019 U.S. and North Korea Continue Working-Level Negotiations Suh Hoon, the director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, said on Tuesday that the United States and North Korea were making... January 28, 2019 Hold the Line on North Korean Sanctions January 24, 2019 U.S. Hits Iranian-Backed Militias in Syria with New Sanctions The Treasury Department imposed terrorism and human rights sanctions today on two militias fighting in Syria under Iran’s direction.... January 24, 2019 U.S. Government Hit by Major Iranian Cyber Operation The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an emergency directive on Tuesday to all federal agencies to take immediate steps to combat a... January 24, 2019 Erdogan Rushes to Maduro’s Defense Juan Guaido, the leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself interim presid... January 24, 2019 Erdogan and Putin Talk Northeast Syria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Russia yesterday t... January 22, 2019 Treasury Department Sanctions Venezuelan Officials Who Stole Billions On January 8, the Trump administration sanctioned a network of corrupt Venezuelan businessmen and senior officials for their role in a... January 18, 2019 Congressional Push for Syria Sanctions Continues Legislation imposing sanctions on Syria’s Assad regime has once again stalled in the Sen... January 18, 2019 Turkey Plans a Safe Zone on Syria Border Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this week his plans to create a “safe zone” in no... January 18, 2019 India’s Iran Sanctions Exceptions Must Include Safeguards Iran and India announced last week that New Delhi ho... January 11, 2019 Iran Imprisons Another U.S. Citizen Iran has incarcerated another American citizen. On Wednesday, the clerical regime... January 8, 2019 New Iranian Draft Budget Slashes Military Spending Iran’s military spending will significantly decrease while its domestic security expenditures will modestly increase, according to a draft of the 2019-2020... January 3, 2019 Strategic Working Group Strengthens U.S.-South Korea Alliance North Korea’s main newspaper condemned the U.S. this morning for preventing reconciliation between Seoul and Pyongyang. Thi... December 21, 2018 Illicit Turkish Arms Still Flow Into Libya Despite UN Embargo On Tuesday, Libyan port authorities at Al-Khoms... December 18, 2018 New Report Shows Increased Poverty in Iran New data on poverty in Iran provides an opportunity for the United States to underscore the mounting cost of the regime’s corruption and mismanagement for tens of millions of Iranians. The data come... December 17, 2018 State Department Rejects Russian, Assad Claims Regarding November Chlorine Attack The U.S. State Department has now shot down claims by Russia and the Assad regime that that anti-Assad rebel forces used chemical wea... December 14, 2018 Syria’s Rukban Refugee Camp: U.S. Strategic and Humanitarian Interests The UN is urgently seeking approval to dispatch an aid convoy t... December 14, 2018 Illinois Moves to Blacklist Airbnb Following a request by Governor Bruce Rauner, the Illinois Investment Policy Board (IIPB) on Wednesday unanimously voted to... December 14, 2018 Turkey Plans Fresh Offensive in Syria On Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of an impending... December 12, 2018 China Prevents a UN Security Council Meeting on North Korean Human Rights The UN observes Human Rights Day each year on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed exactly 70 yea... December 12, 2018 U.S. Continues to Pressure North Korea for its Human Rights Abuses On Monday, the Treasury Department sanctioned three senior North Korean government officials for perpetrating human rights violations,... December 11, 2018 U.S. Urges Iran to Release Women’s Rights Activist on Hunger Strike The State Department on Friday called on Iran to release women’s rights activist Farhad Meysami immediately, noting that his “lif...

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