The Treasury Department on Dec. 11 imposed new sanctions on an Iranian airline as well as an Iranian shipping network involved in smuggling lethal aid to Yemen on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) focused on three general sales agents of Mahan Air who were […]

The State Department is looking into allegations that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are transferring American-made armored vehicles being to armed Yemeni groups with possible terrorist affiliations, according to a letter released Tuesday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). “The Department of State takes these allegations very seriously and is working closely with […]

Iran’s military ambitions will continue to rely on proxies, “hybrid warfare,” naval power, and missile defense according to an unclassified Pentagon report, but will be clipped by financial constraints and sanctions. When a UN arms embargo on Iran is lifted next October, Russia and China are expected to supply tanks and fighter jets, according to […]

Commentary This essay explores two very important issues. First, can missile defenses be deployed simultaneously with nuclear arms reductions? Secondly, can limited missile defenses credibly defeat nuclear missile threats? My answer is a “yes” to both questions, with an important caveat. While Russia and China both have adopted the threat of limited coercive missile strikes […]

WASHINGTON—Two former employees of Twitter Inc. and a third man from Saudi Arabia face U.S. charges of spying by digging up private user data and giving it to Saudi officials in exchange for payment back in 2015, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday. Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo, who used to work for Twitter, […]

The administration of President Donald Trump urged the Iranian regime on Nov. 4 to release American citizens in its custody. The call came on the 40th anniversary of the day that Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 50 Americans hostage for over 14 months. The American captives “are a grim […]

The Syrian war is an amalgam of many proxy wars involving various global players and their regional allies and proxies. And according to people familiar with the situation, recent developments in the region will have global ramifications, as the changes are likely revising the existing political order and its alliances. “The outcome of the war […]

A drive-by shooting in Yemen killed a top pro-government militia leader and five of his companions in the southern city of Aden on Thursday

On Dec. 28, Saudi Arabia said this year's budget deficit amounted to $98 billion as lower oil prices cut into the government's main source of revenue.

Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman's announcement of a new Saudi-led counterterrorism coalition surprised allies like the United States, adversaries such as Iran, and other interested parties including Russia.

The United Nations says peace talks between warring sides in Yemen have ended amid severe new fighting in the country.

China, Egypt and Iran top the list of the world's leading jailers of journalists in a new annual report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists

Projecting its ambition for regional leadership, Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it has lined up most of the Arab world, NATO member Turkey and several African and Asian countries behind a vaguely defined "Islamic military alliance" against terrorists.

Open for trade, Iran may test two rivalries—its own with Saudi Arabia, another between Pakistan and India.

Recent events have raised questions about another issue not covered in the nuclear agreement: Iran’s aggression in the Middle East.

Amid arguments of support and opposition, we look at what the 139-page Iran nuclear deal document means and what it doesn’t.

After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions

An Iran nuclear agreement appeared likely within hours, diplomats said late Monday after a day in which American and Iranian negotiators appeared to be struggling to clear final obstacles and looking like they'd miss their fourth deadline in less than two weeks.

American and Iranian negotiators struggled Monday to clear the final obstacles to an agreement aimed at eliminating the threat of a nuclear-armed Tehran.

Part II of a two part series “Our objective is clear:  We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy,” President Obama firmly orated to the nation in September announcing that the U.S., as the leader of a global coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group [also known as ISIS […]

Haider al-Abadi made his first visit to the White House April 14 as the prime minister of Iraq and requested expedited delivery of U.S. weapons and F-16s to fight ISIS.

The United States, from the conclusion of World War II until now, was always either the sole or one of two “global hegemonies,” with the other being the Soviet Union prior to its demise. With the rise of non-state and state actors fomenting unrest, several U.S. government and military officials have said that today’s world, […]

The Chinese regime will station warships in North Africa, following operations to evacuate Chinese and foreign citizens from Yemen.

Journalists, pundits, experts, and everyone in between have been mercilessly pounding White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest for his refusal to admit that the U.S. counterterrorism model has failed in Yemen.  At the start of the U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State group nearly seven months ago, President Obama touted Yemen and Somalia […]

ISIS isn’t the biggest threat to Iraq, according to the former head of the CIA

Global data on press freedom showed a dramatic decline on freedom of information last year, according to the annual study conducted by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières (rsf)), since 2002.

Considering the seeming increase of global terrorism that has sprouted within the last five years, intelligence is more vital than ever.  The United States has a robust intelligence infrastructure, yet various factors and parameters have forced a reevaluation and adjustment in strategy.  Chief among them is the military’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platform.  ISR […]

Feb. 11 marks the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and in the wave of protests that swept across the Middle East in early 2011, the demise of Egypt’s crony-capitalist dictator promised a new era in the region’s politics. Egypt had long been a bellwether of broader trends in the […]