MIDDLE EAST · Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him · 12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb? · Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again if Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium ...

· BRICS Is Sliding Towards Irrelevance –the Rio Summit Made That Clear · Coups in West Africa Have Five Things in Common: Knowing What They Are Is Key to Defending Democracy · Iran’s Collapse Could ...

As President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about immigration enforcement, ordering new raids on farms and hotels just days after saying he wouldn’t target those industries, he has hardly mentioned ...

Trump Embarrasses the Pentagon with a U-turn on Ukraine (Economist) His decision to resume arms shipments is a victory for common sense—while it lasts. The affair is a reminder that not even Mr. Trump ...

New report says SBINet failed because the U.S. government rushed into it without a well-thought-out plan and without a sufficiently tight supervision of the prime contractor, Boeing; “Instead, [SBINet ...

Now a single tip about a terror link will be enough for inclusion in the watch list for U.S. security officials, who have also evolved a quicker system to share the ...

Iran Could Build a Nuclear Weapon Sooner Than You Think (Gregory S. Jones and Henry Sokolski, Foreign Policy) The history of other countries’ weapons programs shows that Tehran could complete and ...

As federal agencies, cities, and local police departments spend more money on vast networks of closed circuit surveillance cameras, some critics are wondering whether these systems are an effective ...

Albanian gangs are charging £4,000 to help migrants enter the UK through Ireland. China’s Chokehold on This Obscure Mineral Threatens the West’s Militaries (Keith Bradsher, New York Times) China ...

· After War with Israel and U.S., Iran Rests on a Knife Edge · A Peace Agreement That Will Probably Not Bring Peace · How Europe Got Tough on Migration · Refugees Worry: Is Nicaragua Assassinating ...

· The Fog of Disaster Is Getting Worse · Johnson Won’t Say Biden Won in 2020, Raising Worries on 2024’s Process · As Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges Him · Why Legal ...

How China Extended Its Repression into an American City (Shibani Mahtani et al., Washington Post) Chinese diplomats and pro-China diaspora groups based in the United States organized demonstrations in ...