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Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems

Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors

Trump Strikes at China’s Iranian Oil Trade, but It’s Not Enough

The bombs may have stopped falling on Iran — for now — but that doesn’t mean the regime isn’t still under attack, including its illicit oil trade with China. The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday...

The U.S. Should Take a Page From Europe’s New Russia Sanctions Playbook

The European Union is stepping up enforcement against Russian sanctions evasion. Brussels has now implemented its largest set of designations against Moscow in two years, targeting the Kremlin’s enablers...

Qatar Influence Operations: Unmasking a Suspected Network

Will the Next UN Leader Be Good for America?

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s time in office is coming to an end, which raises the question: Who will lead the world’s most important multilateral body next? The 2026 secretary-general...

Iran’s Support for Russia and Lessons Learned from Ukraine

Review of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy

How America can fight back against enemy propaganda

As Iran’s viral Lego videos, which spread anti-Western narratives through Lego-style animations and rap tracks, reach global audiences, the State Department’s call for diplomats to fight against...

Russia’s Gray Zone War Against NATO

It’s a battlefield so cold that even Marvel’s Captain America might find himself looking around for a space heater, but that doesn’t mean the fight isn’t warming up. The Kremlin has been waging...

Iran-linked group Ashab al Yamin surges attacks in European cities, claims 15 since March

The Iran-linked front group Ashab al Yamin said it was responsible for conducting a recent string of attacks in the UK, Germany, Macedonia, and the Netherlands in April, with most of the incidents...

Japan Is Poised To Become Part of America’s Arsenal of Democracy

Japan’s rearmament policy is slowly going global. According to an April 15 report from Reuters, Japan is expected to finalize reforms to its arms export regulations imminently, significantly easing...

Seeking Comment on Prohibiting Importation and Marketing of Previously Authorized Covered Communications Equipment Added to the Covered List in 2024 or Earlier

UK Highlights Espionage Activities of Russian Submarines Near Britain

Defense Secretary Says UK Tracked Russian Subs: UK Defense Secretary John Healey revealed on April 9 that the British armed forces, in cooperation with Norway and other allied nations, had tracked three Russian submarines off the British coast for over a month. Healey said that the purpose of the operation was to gather information about underwater infrastructure, including cables and pipelines. “Our armed forces left them in no doubt that they were being monitored, that their movements were not covert, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin planned,” Healey said.

Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Chemical Weapons Program

Israel has been systematically striking key Iranian facilities that support or could support the development of chemical weapons.  In its latest sorties, on April 7, Israel struck the...

5 Men Now Running Iran

The joint U.S.-Israeli campaign has eliminated the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and his son and successor Mojtaba has yet to appear publicly. However, the regime remains intact. The...

The Broken Promise of the Panama Papers, Ten Years On

The scandal thrust financial secrecy into the spotlight. Why is dirty money still such a big problem?

UK Convenes Meeting on Reopening Strait of Hormuz as Trump Reiterates Warning to Iran in National Address

UK Hosts Meeting of 41 Countries on Hormuz: The United Kingdom  convened a virtual meeting of 41 countries on April 2 on proposed coalition efforts to manage the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that plans to secure the strait would be implemented only after a ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran. “We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage,” UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said. 

How to Tackle Venezuela’s (and the World’s) ‘Odious Debt’ Problem

Venezuela could be a test case for reforming international finance’s lending to authoritarian governments.

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...

Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism