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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 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 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 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 1, 2026 Ukraine Agrees to Mutually Beneficial Defense Deals With Gulf Arab States “In terms of expertise, no one today can help the way Ukraine can,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after his visit to the Middle East, referring to defenses against the Shahed drones... April 1, 2026 Ashab al Yamin: Terrorism With (Semi) Plausible Deniability Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, a shadowy front group with suspected links to Iran, has been spreading terror in Europe. It has claimed seven attacks against Jewish and Western institutions across... April 1, 2026 Putin Reportedly Vows To ‘Keep Fighting,’ Asks Oligarchs To Pitch In Russia “will keep fighting” until it captures the rest of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin reportedly told Russian business elites. During a meeting last week, the... March 31, 2026 Spain Cuts Further Adrift From Western Alliance With Airspace Closure to U.S. Military Nobody expects the Spanish imposition. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to close Spanish airspace to U.S. military flights targeting Iran will hamper U.S. war planning. Sanchez’s defiance might... March 31, 2026 Renewed Threat From Houthis in Yemen As Iran War Reaches Decisive Stage After a month on the sidelines, the Houthis have entered the war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States and Israel on the side of their sponsors in Tehran. On March 28, the Yemeni... March 27, 2026 Israel Aims To Bolster Domestic Munitions Production As the military campaign against Iran continues, Israeli leaders are moving to build greater domestic munition production capacity. Israel’s Ministry of Defense (IMOD) declared “munitions independence”... March 27, 2026 Iranian Cyber Operations Take Advantage of Weakened U.S. Defenses The agency responsible for defending against Iranian cyberattacks is running at less than half strength, so perhaps cyber strikes against two U.S. healthcare companies in two weeks should not be surprising.... March 27, 2026 Houston, Americans Are Headed Back to the Moon “America will never again give up the moon,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated on March 24 as he announced a $20 billion investment to build a lunar base over the next seven years. The moon... March 27, 2026 As Chinese Robotics Industry Surges, Senate Considers Limited Federal Procurement Ban Androids may dream of electric sheep, but Washington isn’t staying quiet on foreign robots. On March 26, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a bill intended to exclude certain... March 26, 2026 Iran’s New Security Chief Marches to the Same Tune as His Predecessors Regime officials in Tehran are playing musical chairs with vacant positions. Israel’s elimination of Ali Larijani on March 16 has left Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in the hands of... March 26, 2026 U.S. Redirects Tehran Regime’s Illicit Wealth to Its Victims Tehran is getting evicted. For about three decades, the clerical regime has owned prime real estate in Midtown Manhattan. On March 23, the Southern District of New York announced its entry into a settlement... March 25, 2026 FCC Ban on Foreign-Produced Routers Targets Chinese Firms Tied to Cybersecurity Risks The United States is pushing Chinese-produced routers off the shelf and onto a watchlist. On March 23, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned all foreign-produced routers from entering the... March 25, 2026 Iraqi Security Institutions: The Latest Victims of Tehran’s Iraqi Proxies The Iraqi government may not care about protecting Americans from Tehran’s militias, but it should certainly care about protecting its own citizens. Amidst bombardments against American assets in... March 25, 2026 Tehran Regime Marks Persian New Year With Public Hangings Iranians’ greatest fear is not the bombs exploding around them, but the hangman’s noose wielded by their own rulers. Not content with the mass slaughter of some 40,000 unarmed Iranians during the... March 24, 2026 Russian Abduction of Ukrainian Children is Part of Effort To Erase Ukrainian Identity The “largest child abduction case since World War 2” is set to be discussed by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress. The March 25 hearing will focus on the Ukrainian... March 24, 2026 In Major Reversal, Taiwan Seeks To Rewire Its Energy Strategy by Restarting its Nuclear Plants The Taiwanese government is reversing course on permanently closing its nuclear reactors. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has presented a plan to restart two of the island’s shuttered nuclear reactors... March 23, 2026 U.S. Intelligence Community Omits Key Russian Threat in Annual Assessment Moscow’s favorite color in the Arctic is gray. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Annual Threat Assessment correctly identifies Russia as the dominant Arctic threat and... March 20, 2026 Exposure of Major Chinese-Linked Chip Smuggling Operations Shows Limits of Industry Self-Policing China is still behind the United States in the AI race, but it is willing to pay a lot to catch up fast. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment on March 19 against Yih-Shyan Liaw, Ruei-Tsang... March 20, 2026 South African Government Continues Antagonizing U.S. South Africa is defiant, refusing to distance itself from the Islamic Republic despite U.S. Ambassador Brent Bozell stating that “an association with Iran is an impediment to good relations with the... March 20, 2026 Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Turkish National Who Aided Russia’s Illegal War on Ukraine A Turkish entrepreneur conducting extensive trade with Russia is the subject of an unusual decision by the U.S. Treasury Department to lift sanctions against him and three of his companies. Berk... March 19, 2026 Japanese Prime Minister Looks To Balance Regional Issues With Iran War During Meeting With Trump Tokyo is looking to support the United States during its ongoing war with Iran. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with President Donald Trump on March 19 to discuss the possibility of... March 19, 2026 Operation Roaring Lion Is Rewriting the Rules of War Against Iran Operation Roaring Lion, Israel’s ongoing military campaign against the clerical regime in Iran, should not be understood as a short-duration punitive campaign. It is rather a sustained military operation... March 19, 2026 Georgia’s Turn Toward China’s Financial System Georgia, once Washington’s closest partner in the Caucasus region, is strengthening its economic ties with Beijing. Four Georgian banks have applied to join China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System... March 19, 2026 Deepfakes on the Front Lines: Iran’s AI Disinformation Campaign The war with Iran has triggered a torrent of disturbing AI-generated imagery, videos, and narratives circulating widely on social media — such as smoke billowing from a Bahraini high-rise or rockets... March 18, 2026 Syria Can Squeeze Hezbollah, But Caution Is Necessary Syrian forces may be returning to Lebanon more than twenty years after Damascus withdrew its military from its smaller neighbor’s territory. Reuters reported on March 17 that the... March 18, 2026 Russia Sanctions Relief Offers Moscow a Windfall, Little Relief to Energy Markets Russia is getting a financial boost from an unexpected source: the U.S. Treasury Department. On March 12, the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a one-month general license authorizing... March 17, 2026 Domestic Politics May Impede Vietnam’s Growing Relationship With the U.S. Vietnam is performing a balancing act, but it’s unclear how long it can keep the plates spinning. On March 16, Vietnam held its first ever “3+3” summit with China, a meeting that featured both... March 17, 2026 Russian Hypocrisy on Display at the UN on Iran’s Behalf Ties to the Persian Gulf region are “among Russia’s foreign policy top priorities,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared during a ministerial meeting with Arab Gulf states in the resort... March 17, 2026 U.S. Sanctions a New Wave of Turkish ‘Charities’ Supporting Hamas They may call themselves charities, but that doesn’t mean the money they collect goes to a good cause. On March 12, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned three Turkish charities for their role in providing... March 16, 2026 Israel’s Post-October 7 Doctrine Comes to South Lebanon Israel is expanding its military presence in southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from reestablishing offensive infrastructure along the Jewish state’s northern frontier. The move follows a sharp escalation... March 16, 2026 Pro-Iranian X Accounts Posing as Chinese, Russian, and North Korean Iran has some imaginary friends. The United States and Israel are grinding down Iran’s war machine while Tehran’s fellow travelers, China, Russia, and North Korea, have largely limited their support... March 13, 2026 Oman Is Under Fire From an Iranian Regime It Sought To Befriend Even as his country was under threat from Iran, Oman’s ruler congratulated the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, on his appointment, expressing his “best wishes for success... March 12, 2026 Russia Helps Iran Attack U.S. and Its Allies. Ukraine Helps Defend Them. Despite U.S. courtship, Russia is showing its true colors. Moscow has assisted Tehran with drone tactics informed by Russia’s own use of Iranian-designed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against Ukraine,... March 12, 2026 Russia Allegedly Meddles in Hungary’s Upcoming Elections As Hungarian voters prepare for parliamentary elections in April, the contest is shaping up to be one of the toughest political challenges yet for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whom President Donald Trump... March 11, 2026 Hezbollah Tests Israel’s Patience as Northern Front Escalates Hezbollah sharply escalated its attacks on March 11, launching scores of rockets into northern Israel in one of its largest barrages since joining the war on Iran’s side on March 1. The salvo was timed... March 11, 2026 Recipients of Federal Research Security Funding Partnered With Chinese Military Universities, China Committee Head Alleges American scientific research is meant to be safeguarded by federal agencies. They may now be fueling China’s military modernization efforts instead. The chairman of the China Select Committee, Rep.... March 11, 2026 Oil Price Whiplash Highlights America’s Enduring Preparedness Gap Amid the uncertainty caused by the ongoing war with Iran’s clerical regime, the price of oil jumped to $120 on March 9 before crashing back to $95 in a matter of hours. The price swings reflect... March 11, 2026 Trump Points to Iran’s Resumption of Nuclear Activities at a New, Deeper Site President Donald Trump’s remarks on Iran’s resumption of covert nuclear activities at an underground site highlight lingering concerns over the status of the Tehran regime’s nuclear program as Operation... March 11, 2026 Iran Increasingly Employing Cluster Munitions Against Israeli Civilians The Islamic Republic of Iran is using ballistic missiles to fire cluster munitions against Israel with the intention of inflicting maximum carnage against civilians. Two people were killed by Iranian... March 11, 2026 Washington Intensifies Pressure on Muslim Brotherhood Networks It has become clear that the White House intends to sustain pressure on violent islamist networks operating across the Middle East and beyond. On March 9, the United States Department of State announced... March 10, 2026 Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Online Network Impersonates Israelis Amid Ongoing War With Iran As Iranian missile barrages continue to strike cities and towns across Israel, a coordinated network impersonating Israelis on the X social media platform is amplifying divisive narratives in Hebrew. FDD... March 10, 2026 China’s New Ethnic Minority Law Seeks To Legitimize Ongoing Repression Beijing is increasing its efforts to reshape the very face of Chinese society. The National People’s Congress (NPC) is slated to consider a new law intended to promote “ethnic unity and progress”... March 10, 2026 Iran War Provides Opportunity for Russia To Test U.S. Alaska Defenses As the U.S.-led war against Iran’s clerical regime continues apace, Russia is testing American capabilities in another corner of the globe. Two Russian maritime patrol aircraft flew through the Alaskan... March 10, 2026 Qatar Has More Than Earned U.S. Condemnation for Persecuting Religious Minorities at Home It should not be surprising that a government that provides sanctuary to Hamas and avidly supports the Muslim Brotherhood has a record of infringing its own citizens’ religious liberty. Finally, it has... March 9, 2026 Turkish Deployment of F-16s in Occupied Portion of Cyprus Raises Tensions in Eastern Mediterranean Using the regional turmoil sparked by the war against Iran’s clerical regime as a cover, Turkey has deployed six F-16 fighter jets to the occupied part of Cyprus. Turkey’s March 9 action represents...

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