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November 8, 2024 House Select Committee Seeks to Tamp Down Chinese Access to Advanced Semiconductors The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued letters to several large semiconductor manufacturers this morning seeking detailed information on their sales and top customers. The move... November 8, 2024 U.S. and Israel Expose Iran’s Tenacious Malign Influence The FBI, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Israel National Cyber Directorate published a joint cybersecurity advisory on October 30 detailing new tradecraft and operations by Emennet Pasargad,... November 7, 2024 China’s Careful Reaction to U.S. Election Masks Deepening Rift China’s restrained response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory sharply contrasts with its months-long campaign to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process and sow societal discord.... November 7, 2024 European Prosecutors Launch Probe into Allegations that Senior EU Official Accepted Bribes From Qatar European Commission advisor Henrik Hololei is the latest Western official facing legal consequences for allegedly accepting bribes from Qatar. On November 1, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)... November 6, 2024 Israel Gears Up for Action: Iran’s Missile Moves from Iraq Push U.S. and Israeli Patience to the Brink Iran’s proxy terrorist organizations in Iraq have claimed more than 100 strikes against Israel in the past year alone, including one drone attack on October 4 that resulted in the deaths of two IDF soldiers... November 5, 2024 Chinese Money Launderers’ Guilty Pleas Highlight China’s Role in America’s Fentanyl Crisis Two Chinese-born individuals pleaded guilty last week to laundering tens of millions of dollars of drug proceeds in coordination with individuals in China and other countries. The case highlights the role... October 29, 2024 Captured Documents Show Al Jazeera Ties to Hamas, Islamic Jihad The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published captured documents on October 23 indicating that six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza are members of either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The IDF has... October 26, 2024 Israel Retaliates Against Iran Regime with Precision Strikes In the early hours of October 26, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced it had successfully targeted key Iranian military and defense industry assets, including air defense systems, missile production... October 25, 2024 MBS Bets on Egypt’s Fragile Economy For the first time since 2022, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) visited Cairo last week to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Their meeting, coupled with Saudi Arabia’s recently... October 25, 2024 Despite Pressure From Washington, Israel Considers Curtailing UNRWA Benny Gantz, a leading opposition member of the Israeli Knesset, advocated on October 22 for a vote on two pieces of legislation that would significantly curtail the activities of the United Nations Relief... October 23, 2024 U.S. Court Denies Sovereign Immunity for Halkbank The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the federal government could proceed with the prosecution of Turkish public lender Halkbank on charges that it helped to evade U.S.... October 23, 2024 Iran’s Economy Braces for Impact of Clash With Israel Iranians remain on edge as they wait for Israel’s response to Iran’s latest ballistic missile barrage. The Iranian currency reflects local anxiety as the street value of the Iranian rial to the dollar... October 22, 2024 UN-Backed Monitors Say Access to Food Improves in Gaza A new quarterly report from a UN-backed monitoring group says that only 6 percent of Gazans face “catastrophic” food insecurity, the lowest figure reported since the start of the war. The assessment... October 21, 2024 Biden Administration Admits Iran’s Oil Exports Have Grown Exponentially in Value and Volume Earlier this month, the Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its first report about Iran’s petroleum exports as mandated by the Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum(SHIP) Act enacted earlier this year.... October 18, 2024 Turkish University Celebrates Hamas, October 7 A university in Istanbul convened an international conference last week where terrorist leaders, government officials, and academics praised Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre and called for the destruction... October 18, 2024 Treasury Targets Hezbollah Financiers, Syrian Narcotraffickers with Fresh Sanctions The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday against a Hezbollah financing network and three individuals who generate revenue for Hezbollah by trafficking illicit narcotics. As hostilities escalate... October 18, 2024 OPCW Must Act Against Russia’s Chemical Weapons Program In The Hague last week, member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) failed to act against Moscow’s use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. As a result,... October 18, 2024 China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan Elicit Only Token U.S. Response China launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan this week acting on the pretext that Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te made offensive remarks in a major speech. These latest drills reflect Beijing’s... October 16, 2024 U.S. Deploys THAAD Battery to Israel An advance team of U.S. military personnel and equipment arrived in Israel on Monday as part of the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery as Israel considers its response... October 16, 2024 Argentina Arrests Hezbollah Crypto Financing Suspects Argentine authorities arrested four individuals last month suspected of financing Hezbollah using a cryptocurrency wallet. As Hezbollah has increased its military action against Israel, these arrests signal... October 16, 2024 Public-Private Cyber Collaboration Needs Enhanced Real-Time Data Sharing A House committee last month passed a bill to codify in law the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) collaboration initiative. If signed into... October 16, 2024 U.S., Canada Designate Samidoun a Sham Charity Front for the PFLP Terrorist Group The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in a joint action with the Canadian government, designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and Khaled Barakat on October 15 for raising funds on... October 11, 2024 Hamas-Supporting Grandson of Mandela Unable to Enter UK Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, the grandson of South African anti-Apartheid champion Nelson Mandela, reportedly did not receive a visa in time to fly to the United Kingdom for a speaking tour that started... October 9, 2024 U.S. Sanctions Additional Hamas Operatives With Ties to Turkey The United States sanctioned three Turkey-based individuals and one sham charity on Monday, designating them as prominent international financial supporters of Hamas. The sanctions, imposed on the first... October 8, 2024 Back in Business: Russian ‘Merchant of Death’ Selling Arms to Houthis The prolific Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, released from American custody in 2022 as part of a U.S.-Russia prisoner swap, is once again plying his old trade, this time selling arms to Yemen’s... October 8, 2024 The Impact of the October 7 Attack Still Reverberates in the U.S. Israel on Monday marked the first anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, which launched the regional war that continues to rage in the Middle East. While Israel is bearing... October 7, 2024 Erdogan Accuses Israel of Intending to Invade Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s Netanyahu government harbored ambitions that include the capture of Anatolia as part of “Greater Israel,” warning of... October 3, 2024 U.S. Investigates Russian-Chinese Nuclear Cooperation The United States Department of Energy (DOE) confirmed to Reuters last month that it is investigating whether China is helping Russia circumvent a ban on U.S. imports of Russian enriched uranium. Beijing’s... September 30, 2024 Consumer Devices Made by U.S. Adversaries Introduce National Security Risks The Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security Act, or the ROUTERS Act, passed the House earlier this month, marking a step toward securing the U.S. information technology infrastructure.... September 26, 2024 U.S. Ceasefire Call Fails to Resolve Hezbollah Threat U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, and other world leaders issued a joint statement on September 25 calling for a “21-day temporary ceasefire to allow diplomacy a chance to prevent... September 25, 2024 Washington Should Demand Turkey Donate its S-400 Missiles to Ukraine and the U.S. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the United States to lift a broad array of sanctions that impede the ability of the two NATO allies to hit long-term bilateral trade targets. The request... September 25, 2024 The Biden Administration Should Not Sell F-35s to Turkey The Greek daily Kathimerini on September 22 disclosed high-level negotiations between Washington and Ankara to sell U.S. F-35 joint strike fighters to Turkey. Equipping Turkey with a fifth-generation stealth... September 24, 2024 Senate Committee Postpones Consideration of Bill Sanctioning ICC Officials The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote tomorrow on a House-passed bill to impose sanctions on prosecutor Karim Khan and other International Criminal Court (ICC) officials for abusing their authorities... September 23, 2024 Meta Bans Russian State Media Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads — banned several Russian state media outlets last week, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, as part of its ongoing efforts to... September 20, 2024 Senate Moves to Extend and Toughen Caesar Act Sanctions on Syrian Regime The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), proposed a late amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on September 11 that includes a four-year extension of... September 17, 2024 Georgetown’s Qatari Branch to Host Former Al Jazeera Executive Who Praised October 7 Massacre Georgetown University’s branch in Qatar has invited Wadah Khanfar, a former Al Jazeera executive who celebrated the October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis, to speak at its “Reimagining Palestine” conference, which begins in Doha on September 20... September 13, 2024 Pro-Hamas Islamists Win the Most Seats in Jordanian Elections The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front (IAF) secured 31 of 138 seats in Jordanian parliamentary elections on September 10, the most of any party. The IAF achieved its best result in 35 years by... September 11, 2024 South Africa’s Ties with U.S. Adversaries Continue Unabated A Russian naval ship made a port call in Cape Town on August 29, after stops in Cuba and Venezuela. This is the latest indication that South Africa’s new Government of National Unity (GNU) will continue... September 11, 2024 MSCI’s Anti-Israel ESG Ratings Merit State and Federal Investigations The New York-based MSCI, Inc., imposed “severe controversy” environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings on two Illinois-based companies for doing business in territories controlled by Israel,... September 9, 2024 Escalating South China Sea Tensions Demand Urgent U.S. Response A series of recent maritime provocations between China and the Philippines near Sabina Shoal, a disputed atoll within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), have exacerbated Indo-Pacific tensions.... September 6, 2024 FDD Identifies 19 Websites as Part of an Iranian Global Influence Operation FDD researchers have uncovered the Iranian role in creating a network of at least 19 websites that present themselves as independent sources of opinion and analysis for audiences across the globe. Other... September 5, 2024 U.S. Marines in Turkey Assaulted by Nationalist Youth Group Two U.S. Marines in Turkey were assaulted on Monday by more than a dozen members of the Turkish Youth Union (TYU), a secular nationalist youth group opposed to U.S. and European Union influence in the... August 29, 2024 Syria’s Assad Rebuffs Erdogan’s Effort to Normalize Ties Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the country’s parliament on August 25 that initiatives to revive relations with Turkey had not yielded “any results worth mentioning despite the seriousness and... August 28, 2024 Mitigating Threats to American Farming Starts With Secure Technology Earlier this month at its Omaha Agriculture Threats Symposium, the FBI briefed farmers and cybersecurity professionals from across 30 states on the increasing cyber threats to agriculture. The FBI’s... August 22, 2024 Swift U.S. Response Needed to Contain Mpox Outbreak in Africa The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on August 14 due to a surge in cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox,... August 9, 2024 First B-52H Bomber Deployment to Romania With Cross-Theater Operations in CENTCOM The United States operated two B-52H Stratofortress long-range strategic bombers from Romania for the first time on July 21 and, in another first, forward deployed one of the B-52H aircraft just days later... August 9, 2024 Pro-Hamas Protesters in Turkey Call for Military Strikes Against Israel Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Istanbul on August 3 to express their anger over the death of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31. Emboldened by President... August 1, 2024 Treasury Sanctions Highlight Hong Kong’s Role as Emerging Sanctions Evasion Hub The Treasury Department designated 12 individuals and entities in Iran, China, and Hong Kong on Monday for supporting Iran’s ballistic missile and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programs. This action... July 30, 2024 Turkey Threatens to Invade Israel Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory... July 26, 2024 Russian and Chinese Strategic Bombers Patrol near Alaska Russian and Chinese strategic bombers conducted a combined patrol near Alaska on Wednesday in the latest sign of military cooperation between the two U.S. adversaries. The incident underscores the determination...

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