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April 3, 2017 Trump Offers Sisi Praise, but Unclear What Else Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi traveled to Washington on Monday for his first-ever Whi... March 31, 2017 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Gets a Raise The Iranian parliament passed two pieces of legislation this month with wide-reaching repercussions for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The first was the... March 30, 2017 EU Delists Syrian Tycoon, Highlighting Global Sanctions Pitfalls The European Union’s second-highest court... March 29, 2017 Congress Ups Ante with New Iran Sanctions House and... March 28, 2017 U.S. Arrests Senior Turkish Banker for Sanctions-Busting U.S. authorities arrested Mehmet Hakan Atilla, the... March 24, 2017 Mubarak Freed, Egypt Shrugs Hosni Mubarak was freed Friday from a military hospital in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, six years after mas... March 22, 2017 U.S. Sanctions Bahrainis Linked to Iran-Backed Group The State Department on Friday designated two Bahrainis with ties to Iran as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, thereby den... March 22, 2017 A Temporary Thaw in Egyptian-PA Relations Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi... March 22, 2017 Turkish Organizations Under Fire for Alleged Hamas Support Turkey’s ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas are once again in the spotlight. Israeli authorities claimed this week that two charities with close ties to the ruling elite in Ankar... March 16, 2017 Ecuador, Iran, and Latin America’s Pink Tide Ecuador will elect a new leader on April 2 to replace its left-wing, populist president Rafael Correa. Washington should pay close attention. Correa’s vice-president Lenin Moreno is a close... March 16, 2017 Saudi Arabia’s Charm Offensive with New U.S. President Saudi Arabia’s most powerful prince, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, became the first Arab leader to meet in the White House on Tuesday with President Donald Trump, who was accompa... March 16, 2017 Morocco Arrests Hezbollah Financier Lebanese media reported Tuesday that the tycoon and terror financier Qassem Tajeddin has been apprehended in Morocco before boarding a flight to Beirut. The U.S. Treasury Department... March 14, 2017 Iran Announces New Charges Against Iranian-American Iran recently brought new charges against an Iranian-American and... March 14, 2017 North Korea Looms Over Tillerson’s Asia Trip Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Japan, South Korea, and China on Wednesday. His visit comes at a pivotal time: Early last week, North Korea... March 9, 2017 Lebanon’s New Army Chief has History of Coordination with Hezbollah Lebanon’s new cabinet announced Staff Brigadier General Joseph... March 9, 2017 Iran’s Missile Launch is Test for New Administration Iran reportedly fired two ballistic missiles this weekend, the first alleged ballist... March 8, 2017 Gauging the North Korea-Iran Relationship A new report alleges that North Korea is helping Iran continue development of a nuclear... March 7, 2017 UN Report Reveals North Korea’s Sanctions Evasion The United Nations issued its annual report Monday on North Korea, revealing numerous sanctions violations and confirming widespread... March 3, 2017 Iranian Officials: Obama-era Prisoner Release was ‘Ransom’ Iranian intelligence agencies are fighting over credit for forcing the U.S. to pay ransom for... March 2, 2017 Lebanon’s Armed Forces and Hezbollah Increasingly Intertwined General Joseph Votel of U.S. Central Command reportedly visited Leban... February 17, 2017 Iran’s Financial Rebranding Efforts and the FATF Plenary The Plenary and Working Group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – a global body for combatting money laundering and terror and proliferation finance – will meet from February... February 15, 2017 North Korea Debuts New Solid-Fuel Missile North Korea on Sunday launched a new ballistic missile, the Pukguksong-2. The launch represents not just a significant advancement for Pyongyang’s missile program, but the first foreign pol... February 15, 2017 Meet Mahmoud al-Aloul, Abbas’ New Deputy Co-written by Evan Charney Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas... February 13, 2017 Terror Financiers “Operating Openly” in Qatar and Kuwait A White House readout following President Trump’s p... February 12, 2017 Will North Korea’s Missile Launch a New U.S. Policy? North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), probably the Musudan (Hwasong-10), from... February 10, 2017 Erdogan Builds a Parallel Budget Co-written by Yagmur Menzilcioglu. Over the weekend, the Turkish government... February 8, 2017 Iran’s missile tests reveal weaknesses of UN Security Council Resolution Iran’s latest missile test on January 29 received a swift response, as warranted. The United Nations Security Council... January 31, 2017 Erdogan’s Newfound Partners: Russia and Iran Russian officials announced Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet with his T... January 27, 2017 Mattis to Shore up Asian Allies on North Korea Threat Secretary of Defense James Mattis will travel to South Korea and Japan on February 1-4. His visit, the first of any Trump official... January 26, 2017 Ensuring Iran’s Enrichment R&D is for Peaceful Purposes Iran announced last week that it would start feeding its first IR-8 centrifuges with uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). The 2015... January 19, 2017 Iran Taps Quds Force Official as Envoy to Iraq Iran has appointed a high-ranking officer from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) extraterritorial branch, the Quds... January 16, 2017 Another Palestinian Unity Agreement? A coalition of Palestinian parties released a statement last week calling for the first session in over two decades... January 16, 2017 Easing Sanctions on Sudan Erodes U.S. Leverage The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday... January 13, 2017 Will the next Arab revolt be in Algeria? A remarkable series of scarcely noticed counter-terrorism operations, labor strikes, and social protests in Algeria last week show the North African country may face a year of upheaval. Six years... January 12, 2017 Treasury Targets North Korea’s Human Rights Abusers The U.S. Department of the Treasury yesterday designated seven North Korean individuals and blocked two entiti... January 10, 2017 Iran Stockpiling Uranium Far Above Current Needs In a televised speech on January 1, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani... January 9, 2017 Rafsanjani: A Revolutionary, Not a Reformer Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of a heart attack Sunday at age 82. Often described as a “... January 4, 2017 Hunger Strikes: The Last Resort for Iran’s Desperate Prisoners Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner in Iran, is 13 months into a 19-year sentence in... January 3, 2017 North Korea’s New Year’s Message The year 2017 started with new threats from North Korea. In his New Year’s Day address, North Korean leader Kim Jung Un... December 28, 2016 Kerry’s Address: More Posturing Than Policy Secretary of State John Kerry, in a speech... December 23, 2016 Treasury Sanctions Airline Ferrying Fighters for Assad The U.S. Treasury announced new Syria sanctions on Friday, including on... December 19, 2016 Envoy’s Murder Exposes Turkey-Russia Fault Lines Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, was... December 16, 2016 Turkey’s Dubious Case against a U.S. Pastor Turkish courts last week charged U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson with “membership in an armed terrorist organization,” transferring him to a high-security prison after two months in solitary confinement in... December 16, 2016 Turkey’s Dubious Case against a U.S. Pastor Turkish courts last week charged U.S. pastor Andr... December 15, 2016 Iran Concessions Would Erode Anti-Money Laundering Standards The 10-year extension of the Iran Sanction Act (ISA) – a 1996 law imposing sanctions on Tehran’s trade, energy, defense, and banking sectors over its nuclear program, ballistic-missil... December 13, 2016 Pick for Basij Chief is Versed in Repression Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued a decree last Wednesday... November 26, 2016 Khamenei Threatens Reprisal Over Sanctions Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei... November 18, 2016 Congress Introduces Bill to Combat BDS Worldwide Congress introduced the Protecting Israel Against Economi... November 18, 2016 Turkey’s Latest Scapegoats: Christians Turkish police on October 7 detained... November 18, 2016 Iran’s First Major Post-Deal Oil Contract Is Risky Business Iran last week struck its first major oil agreement with international firms following the lifting of nuclear-related...

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