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Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Programs

America Can’t Reindustrialize on Chinese Batteries

Washington has learned, often the hard way, that supply chains once treated as purely commercial can carry real national security consequences. Huawei exposed that risk in telecommunications. Chinese drones...

X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It

A new location transparency feature on X is revealing foreign influence on American discourse just as federal agencies designed to deal with such threats are being dismantled. Toward the end...

Inside Qatar’s $225 Million Effort to Court US Policymakers and Press

Qatar still thinks money can buy you love, and it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States to prove it. During the first Trump administration, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s

Examining the Threats to America’s Critical Minerals Supply Chain

Foreign Malign Election Meddling Persists but Struggles to Gain Traction

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Qatari Prime Minister to Visit Iran ‘In the Coming Days’

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani is expected to visit Iran for talks “in the coming days,” Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported on August 22. According...

How To Pose as a Reasonable Critic of Israel (With a Little Help From the Media)

Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina. He is Jewish but believes that Zionism is “sadism” and “the moral equivalent of Nazism.” Feroze...

Citing Hamas Links, Draft Defense Bill Pushes for Review of U.S.-Qatar Relations

U.S. concern over Qatar’s relationship with Hamas is reflected in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), released...

Rumors Swirl Over Hamas Move From Qatar to Iraq

Hamas may relocate its political headquarters from Qatar to Iraq, unnamed sources told The National on June 24. The Iran-backed group already opened a political office in Baghdad...

Reports Claim U.S. Delaying Munitions to Send Message to Israel

The Biden administration is pausing shipments of offensive weapons to Israel due to its objections to military operations in Rafah, senior U.S. officials told journalists on May...

The Urgent Need for UN Reform

The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.

Beijing’s Power Play

Safeguarding U.S. National Security in the Electric Vehicle and Battery Industries

Will CEOs Finally Learn Their Lesson on Boycotting Israel?

Ben & Jerry’s’ Israel boycott melted away last month when its parent company, Unilever, settled a federal lawsuit brought by the company’s Israeli licensee, Avi Zinger. Unilever...

All Over the Map

The Chinese Communist Party’s Subnational Interests in the United States

Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey is a chance for my home country to heal

President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey, a longtime NATO ally that has increasingly strained relations with the United States and other members...

U.S. Targets Turkey-Based Money Laundering Schemes With Links to Senior Turkish Officials

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Monday that it will seek to extradite Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, a Turkish businessman Austrian authorities arrested on June 19 for his alleged role in money laundering...

Turkey Needs to Change its Policy and Rhetoric Toward Religious Minorities

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stunned his country’s Christians and Jews by publicly using the slur “gavur” (infidel), a pejorative designation for non-Muslims, to criticize...

Russia-Turkey Pincer Movement Threatens Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Survival

It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects.