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July 13, 2012
US Sanctions Iranian Tankers to Tighten Oil Noose
The Obama administration sanctioned the National Iranian Tanker Co. and four alleged front companies for Iran’s oil trade, the latest salvo in a U.S.-led campaign to curtail Iran’s pe...
July 12, 2012
Why Palestinian Corruption Matters
In 2005, an extremely wealthy old friend of Yasir Arafat’s, Munib al-Masri, spoke about the missed opportunities he witnessed during Arafat’s time in power for an...
July 12, 2012
House Middle East Subcommittee Considers PA Corruption
The House Middle East subcommittee considered reports of Palestinian corruption and how the reports should affect U.S. assistance to the Palestinians. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), the cha...
July 12, 2012
Al Qaeda Leader Abu Hafs al-Mauritani Freed in Mauritania
Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, who was a senior adviser to al Qaeda, was released from a prison in Mauritania over the weekend, his family confirmed. Sidi Ould Walid said his brother was release...
July 10, 2012
Israel’s Plight Ignored
Despite pleas from Senators on Capitol Hill, the Obama administration excluded Israel from a new counterterrorism forum and neglected to mention its long and deadly struggle with terrorism during...
July 10, 2012
To Power Syria, Chávez Sends Diesel
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his state-oil company are providing vital energy support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and conducting business with Syrian firms blacklisted by W...
July 3, 2012
US Officials Say China is Reducing Purchases of Iranian Oil
China has fallen in line with Western efforts to cut back purchases of Iranian oil and will be spared economic punishment threatened under a new round of U.S. sanctions, Obama administration offi...
July 3, 2012
Iran Tanker Flagging Threatens Tanzania-US Ties, Lawmaker Says
Tanzania must reverse the decision allowing Iranian oil tankers to register in the country or face a breakdown in its ties with the U.S., a member of Congress wrote in a letter to the East Africa...
June 29, 2012
Iran Sanctions are About to Get Tougher
As the West has tightened its economic chokehold in an effort to force Iran's govern...
June 29, 2012
China, Singapore Exempted From US Iran Oil Sanctions
The U.S. said China and Singapore have “significantly reduced” their purchases of Iranian oil, earning exemptions from U.S. financial sanctions that otherwise would have been imposed...
June 29, 2012
US Grants Iran Sanctions Exceptions to China
The United States gave China a six-month reprieve from Iran financial sanctions on Thursday, avoiding a diplomatic spat with a country w...
June 29, 2012
US Clears China From Iran Oil Sanctions
The U.S. exempted China from penalties for doing business with Tehran as the latest set of U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports took effect on Thursday. The State Department,...
June 29, 2012
Next-Gen Terror Watchers Go Deep Into Al-Qaida, Tweet a Lot
Most counterterrorism scholars will never meet Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaida, let alone pray with him. As a teenage extremist, Tawfik Hamid did. Back when Hamid was a youth i...
June 16, 2012
Arab World: Feigning Concern?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week expressed concerns regarding new Russian supplies of helicopter gunships to the Assad regime in Syria. Washington has confronted Rus...
June 16, 2012
What Will It Take to Convince Putin to Change Course?
This week - just as new revelations emerged of Syrian regime massacres of women and children - Moscow ordered the harshest measures against its own political opposition since Vladimir Putin first...
June 16, 2012
Iran, North Korea, Sudan Rack Up Millions By Trading UN Carbon Credits
The U.N. is funneling millions of dollars worth of tradable carbon credits to corrupt nations worldwide, including Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Uzbekistan in an attempt to encourage clean energy...
June 13, 2012
Why Did the US Exclude Israel From the New Counterterrorism Forum?
Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Istanbul to convene a new worldwide forum of countries to share info and help integrate efforts to fight terrorism -- but Israel wasn...
June 13, 2012
China’s Imports of Iranian Crude ‘Legal and Reasonable’ -Foreign Ministry
BEIJING--China's foreign ministry said Tuesday that the country's imports of Iranian crude oil were "entirely legal and reasonable" and that its position on the matter has been made cle...
June 13, 2012
Obama Outfoxed by Putin
The Associated Press reports: &l...
June 12, 2012
Not A Silver Drone…
All this recent reporting on drones and robots might lead one to think the U.S. is nearing the sweet spot, where remote-control war clicks firmly from science fiction to reality. Not so fast...
June 12, 2012
China Is Excluded From Waivers for Oil Trade With Iran
WASHINGTON — Less than three weeks before stringent American sanctions intended to reduce...
June 12, 2012
US Exempts Seven Countries that Consume Iran Oil From Sanctions
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced Monday that it had exempted seven countries that are major consumers of Iranian oil from threatened U.S. sanctions aimed at punishing Tehran...
June 12, 2012
US Exempts India, South Korea From Iran Oil Sanctions
No U.S. Definition President Barack Obama’s administration hasn’t defined what constitutes a significant reduction, and three U.S. officials said they were w...
June 7, 2012
Drone Strike Killed No. 2 in Al Qaeda, US Officials Say
A Central Intelligence Agency drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal belt killed...
June 7, 2012
US Drone War Threatens to Fan Instability
The Obama administration has stepped up its drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen in a bid to cripple al Qaeda once and for all. Analysts are concerned that the loss of civilian life...
June 7, 2012
In Attempt to Garner Votes, Obama is Ignoring the Palestinians
Tuesday evening, it seemed like deja vu, when U.S. President Obama "dropped by" a meeting at the White House between his chief of staff, Jacob Lew, and a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders. Obama "...
June 7, 2012
US Offers Millions in Bounty for Top Somali Militants
The United States is offering rewards of up to $7 million for information leading to the location of seven key leaders of...
June 7, 2012
To Act or Not in Syria?
Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes in response to some conservat...
June 6, 2012
Palestinians: US Refugee Bill May Delay Peace
Palestinian advocates are warning that a new US Senate amendment dictating a reporting requirement on the issue of Palestinian refugees could set back efforts to reach a peace deal. The...
June 6, 2012
Palestinians Blackmail Washington Over True Refugee Numbers
The Palestinians are blackmailing Washington, claiming that a new amendment to a bill befo...
June 4, 2012
Doctor Who Help in Bin Laden Hunt Convicted
A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. search for Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in jail for conspiring with militants rather than assisting the CIA track down the al-Qaeda leader, acc...
June 1, 2012
Request to Define What is a Palestinian Refugee Creates Big Diplomatic Complication for US
A simple congressional request for the United States to distinguish between Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and millions of their descendants poses a high-stakes diplomat...
June 1, 2012
What is a UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees Doing in DC?
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is now in the congressional spotlight. The amendment authored by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) shone a spotlight on UNRWA’s definit...
May 31, 2012
US Treasury Sanctions Syrian International Islamic Bank
The U.S. strengthened efforts to restrict the Syrian government’s access to international capital by adding another bank to the list of those facing sanctions. The U.S. designated...
May 29, 2012
The Weekly Wrap — May 25, 2012
How to incentivize bad behavior for the greater good: Last year, Mark Dubowitz, a Washington-based advocate of regime change in Iran, was mulling a conundrum with a colleague -- how to cla...
May 29, 2012
US Troops Winning War Against IEDs of Taliban
The U.S. military is on a path toward significantly fewer battlefield deaths in Afghanistan this year because it has become b...
May 29, 2012
Assad May Hold on After All
The Post reports: “The United States and several other Western nations...
May 29, 2012
41 Reported Dead in Hama; Annan: Houla Massacre ‘Appalling’
Security forces killed 41 people in the flashpoint city of Hama, activists said Monday, after the United Nations envoy to Syria slammed the killing of more than 100 people in a nearby city as an...
May 25, 2012
After More Iranian Stalling, What’s Next?
It’s hard to take the administration seriously on Iran when it continually reveals how little it understands the Iranian regime and how absence is any sense of urgency. The...
May 25, 2012
US Senate Dramatically Scales Down Definition of Palestinian ‘Refugees’
The US Senate approved language Thursday night that could shrink the number of Palestinian refugees recognized by the United States from 5 million to about 30,000. An amendment to a bill...
May 25, 2012
‘Jihad Central’ in Syria
With the 15-month old demonstrations in Syria spiraling into civil war, the mounting death toll has topped 10,000. Accompanying the chaos on the ground is a sharp increase in suicide bombings sin...
May 25, 2012
State Department Lists Abdallah Azzam Brigades As Terror Organization
The U.S. State Department said Thursday it designated the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, or AAB, as a foreign terrorist organization. AAB, based in both Lebanon and the Arabian Peninsula, is r...
May 24, 2012
Senate Fight Today Over Palestinian ‘Refugees’
Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian "refugees" or just ar...
May 23, 2012
Iranian Charade: The UN’s Scant Deal on Nuclear Research
The Post reports: “Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency are near agreement on a plan that could lift the veil on some of the Islamic Republic’s past nuclear research, U.N. officials said...
May 23, 2012
Major Powers Seek Iran Concessions at Baghdad Talks
BAGHDAD, May 23 (Reuters) - World powers will test Iran's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear programme at talks on Wednesday aimed at easing a decade-old standof...
May 23, 2012
Iranian ‘Evidence’ of Israeli Spy Likely a Forgery
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A claim by Iranian television that an alleged spy had an Israeli passport appears to be based on a forgery. Majid Jamali Fashi, who was hanged May 15 by Ir...
May 22, 2012
US Won’t Ease Oil Sanctions at Iran Nuclear Talks
Negotiators headed to Baghdad for a second round of talks on Iran’s nuclea...
May 21, 2012
The Commander in Chief is Tired of Commanding
On Sunday, the New York Times ran a rather stunning piece on the pres...
May 18, 2012
Iran Sanctions: Now or Never
The next round of “P5+1” talks with Iran are...
May 17, 2012
US Senate to Consider New Iran Sanctions
WASHINGTON: US Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid will ask the chamber to approve a new package of oil and economic sanctions on Thursday aimed at further pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear...
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