Scrapping Iran Deal Provides A Trump Card With North Korea
The political left is aghast over President Donald Trump's decision last week to abrogate the Iran nuclear deal.
The political left is aghast over President Donald Trump's decision last week to abrogate the Iran nuclear deal.
New U.S. sanctions begin to bite;
Russia frustrates response to Syrian atrocities
Slowing soldiers' biological clocks;
How 3D printers are increasing efficiency in weapons production;
Needed: Private sector help on AI;
China constructs hypersonic testing facility;
Loud, non-lethal lasers
Despite consuming more oil and gas than any other country in the world, the United States is on pace to become a net energy exporter before 2025.
New study takes aim at PLA corruption;
Beijing warns: be wary of foreign spies
It's official: the Iran nuclear deal is dead.
U.S. policy: Back to sanctions...;
...and plans for a broader strategy;
Meanwhile in Iran, official anger...;
...and grassroots ferment
What's more pathetic: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' latest blast of ugly anti-Semitism, or the hopes that the global community has long invested in him as a true Israeli partner for peace?
New U.S. sanctions target Russian elites;
The slow death of Russia's rural schools
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has the highest motor vehicle crash death rate among high-income countries, with nearly 37,000 deaths annually, or about 100 per day.
The Russian threat to undersea cables;
Revealed: Russia's strategy to destabilize Ukraine
Chinese Christians take aim at the Vatican;
Monitoring China’s bathrooms
How does North Korea use cyber means to achieve its political and military objectives? Ever since the Korean War, North Korea’s stated foreign policy goal has been to reunify the Korean peninsula under its rule.
Moscow, Beijing draw closer;
Overtures, and thinly-veiled threats, toward Taiwan
On Monday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically unveiled records detailing "Project Amad," Iran's "comprehensive program to design, build, and test nuclear weapons."
A step forward for Nord Stream 2;
Warming ties between Moscow and Doha
Fresh worries over Russian cyberwarfare;
New revelations about Moscow-Tehran ties
With more freedom to maneuver on foreign than domestic affairs, and with their eyes focused squarely on their legacies, all modern U.S. presidents have sought to craft the elusive deal that will solve a protracted global conflict.
Pentagon ponders how to nullify Russia's nuclear strategy;
The Kremlin's quiet aid to the Taliban
These days, it's increasingly clear that the Iran nuclear deal is on life support.
Russia's cyberwar against the U.S.;
A tit-for-tat on the sanctions front
Mike Pompeo should be promptly confirmed as secretary of State because he is well qualified, but also because this is an extraordinarily dangerous time for the United States to be without an effective secretary of State.
China to more closely monitor political outlook at universities;
Travel bans for troublemakers
Greater protections, less "
family planning"
Reining in China’
s military
Whatever happened to the Iranian cyberthreat? Not all that long ago, American officials were preoccupied with the growing disruptive capabilities that the Islamic Republic had begun to demonstrate on the World-Wide Web.
Chinese household debt grows;
Congress moves to limit Chinese influence in academia
A new Kremlin counterterrorism sweep;
New details in Skripal case point to Russia
China takes the lead in railgun development;
Seeking more missile defense in the Pacific;
Needed: A rulebook for cyberwarfare;
Iran's drones get an upgrade;
Up next: Robotic submarine hunters
In order to better coordinate his response to the latest developments in Syria, President Trump has cancelled what would have been his first trip to South America. Vice President Pence will now go in his stead to attend the Eighth Summit of the Americas.
The cost of the Kremlin's political meddling in Europe;
Back to official anti-Semitism
The world "should wait for our great move," said a top Hamas leader, speaking to Palestinian protestors during violent clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border, "when we breach the borders and pray at al Aqsa."
American forces are building military bases in Syria and providing vital humanitarian assistance to embattled minorities there, and yet President Trump is insisting that troops pull out
Skripal scandal deepens;
Fudging the numbers on Russian mortality
The new cold war between Moscow and Washington just got a little bit colder.
The Islamic Republic's war on women;
A kinder, gentler gulf posture?;
Mismanagement adds to Iran's water woes;
A different kind of insurance policy;
Iran's increasingly rickety rial
Greater NATO resolve needed;
Another poisoning in London
Congratulations to Heather Nauert, the State Department's new acting under secretary for public diplomacy and affairs! You have just taken the best job in U.S. government, though not many people know it.
A tectonic shift is taking place in Middle East politics. We may be on the verge of seeing a historic normalization of relations between Israel and several major Arab states. And it is all thanks to Iran.
When Vladimir Putin said last fall that artificial intelligence is "humanity's future" and that the country that masters it will "get to rule the world," some observers guessed that the Russian president was hinting at unrevealed progress and breakthroughs in the field.
An energy war against Ukraine;
Russia's costly Syria campaign
In Syria, Russia is both "
arsonist and firefighter"
A new arms race with Russia?
Hacking Pyongchang;
How Russia is helping America's arms industry
Russian doping, again;
The cost of U.S.-Russian friction
This book argues that American and European policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus suffer from both conceptual and structural impediments.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union organized its vast academic and industrial resources to achieve scientific and industrial breakthroughs for the nation’s military forces.
Russia's proxy fight in Syria;
Sobchak's electoral shenanigans
China's surveillance state gets bigger;
The dark side of the BRI
With President Trump's pick of John Bolton as National Security Advisor raising the chances of a U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Washington must be ready in its aftermath to pursue a bold, broad, and effective strategy to restrain Tehran's nuclear dreams and hegemonic ambitions.
The toxic Arctic;
Afghanistan's hunger problem;
A new method to track global fishing;
Kenya's coal plant controversy;
A new threat to Nigeria
The sudden announcement of a North Korea-U.S. summit in March 2018 upended all previous diplomacy concerning North Korea’s nuclear program.