Ben Cardin

September 20, 2024 | David Adesnik, Matthew Zweig

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...

June 5, 2024 | |

U.S. House of Representatives Votes for Sanctions Against International Criminal Court

The U.S. House of Representatives voted by a comfortable majority on June 4 to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) following its prosecutor’s decision to...

February 1, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Soldiers of Misfortune

The Wagner Group isn’t playing

January 4, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

A sorry summit

Meeting with African leaders, Biden avoids the pivotal issues

August 24, 2022 | Orde Kittrie, Bruce Rashkow

The Time Is Now to Reform the UN Human Rights Apparatus

June 30, 2021 | Orde Kittrie |

International Criminal Court

June 23, 2021 | Orde Kittrie |

Hold Hamas Accountable for Human-Shields Use During the May 2021 Gaza War

January 14, 2021 | Orde Kittrie |

International Law

December 18, 2020 | John Hannah |

Biden Shouldn’t Rush to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal

Moving quickly to resurrect the JCPOA, as Biden seems set to do, would start his presidency with a hugely divisive controversy.

September 3, 2020 | Orde Kittrie |

U.S. Needs a New ICC Strategy

The State Department announced sanctions yesterday on two senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in an “unjust and illegitimate investigation” of alleged war crimes...

June 15, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution

He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.

April 11, 2019 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Congress Urges New Sanctions on Turkey

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced...

February 13, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Tillerson Goes to Turkey amid Sanctions Talk in Washington

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to visit Turkey o...

January 31, 2018 | Boris Zilberman

How to Make Russia Sanctions Bite

On Monday night, the U.S. Treasury Department issued its long-awaited report on Russian oligarchs an...

December 22, 2017 | Boris Zilberman |

This Christmas, Remember Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson

Pastor Andrew Brunson will be spending his second Christmas in a Turkish jail, unfairly held by the Erdogan government on...

November 9, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s New Missile Cap Offer Is a Total Sham

Co-authored by Richard Goldberg. Last week, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

November 18, 2016 | Tyler Stapleton |

Congress Introduces Bill to Combat BDS Worldwide

Congress introduced the Protecting Israel Against Economi...

July 14, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz

The Iran Nuclear Agreement: One Year Later

Download the full written testimony here...

April 20, 2016 | David Weinberg

Why is President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia important now?

US President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week for meetings with King Salman and other leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council appears first and foremost to be about reassuranc...

September 9, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Not Quite Done Iran Deal

The debate over the deal President Obama has cut with Iran’s rulers is supposed to end this week. The New York Times, the AP and others in the media are reporting that the White House has a...