On August 1, the United States, using ‘Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, “Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption,” which builds upon Treasury’s Global Magnitsky Act authorities,’ imposed sanctions against two high-level Turkish government officials...
On July 25, 2018, the Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked several Saudi ships in the Red Sea that Saudi Arabia said were oil tankers, although the Houthis claimed they were warships....
The U.S. has become an internally divided and fragile superpower, with resulting social, political, and economic consequences. In particular, the country is unprepared to respond to any large-scale terrorist attack or natural disaster with common purpose...
The Chinese security apparatus is employing increasingly aggressive surveillance of minority populations in the name of counterterrorism...
As the U.S. increases its pressure on and rhetoric against Iran, there are press reports that the Trump administration is considering the idea of a Middle Eastern collective defense coalition....
On July 31, Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Trump’s 2016 campaign, will go on trial...
In the Middle East, when given the choice of supporting nascent democracies versus supporting authoritarian leaders who are self-avowed ‘security partners’ in the fight against terrorism, the U.S. often chooses the latter....
The infamous heatwave and drought in the United Kingdom in 1976 saw temperatures that were an anomaly of red in an otherwise normal global heat map...
President Trump’s July 23, 2018 all capitals tweet that Iran would ‘suffer the consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before’ if it again threatened military action against the United States reflects a turn toward a more aggressive U.S. Iran policy...
Pakistan, a nation plagued with serious political divisions and with a true ‘deep state,’ is holding elections on July 25. Only once in its 70-year history has Pakistan replaced its civilian government with another civilian government through an electoral process...
Donald Trump’s public rhetoric is unprecedented for a U.S. president. He routinely uses social media to personally mock world leaders, and in the case of North Korea and now Iran, openly threaten nuclear war...
Since 2014, much attention has been paid not only to the phenomenon of foreign fighters, but the fears around what would happen when those fighters returned home...
There have been two main elements of Russia’s campaign to interfere and influence the 2016 U.S. elections. The more clandestine was the hacking and theft of political party databases and email accounts...
On July 15, 2018, on the eve of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Israel conducted the latest of its increasingly frequent air strikes in Syria...
On July 17, President Trump read from prepared remarks in an attempt to minimize the blowback over his unprecedented performance the day before in Helsinki....