Tag: Judiciary
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US Lifts Syria Sanctions
11 Jul 2025 Issue: 68 / 28 Following his pledge in May to lift sanctions on Syria’s new government, Donald Trump signed an executive order on 30 June terminating the bulk of US sanctions on Syria, excluding those on “Bashar al-Assad, his associates, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, persons linked to chemical weapons activities, ISIS or its…
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Iranian Women Don’t Need Saving
Israel and the United States say that their attacks on Iran are for the benefit of its women. Iranian feminists couldn’t disagree more. Young Iranian women walk past a banner featuring portraits of the IRGC generals and nuclear scientists who were killed in Israeli attacks, in northern Tehran, June 30, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto…
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The D Brief: Masked show-of-force in LA; US restarts aid to Ukraine; Israel’s plans for Gazans; DHS intel chief testifies; And a bit more.
Guard troops, ICE stage photo op in Los Angeles park. A masked and heavily-armed assortment of agents from nine agencies and the National Guard flooded a public park in California Monday morning for an hourlong “show of force akin to a Hollywood movie,” the Los Angeles Times reported after images surfaced online and via embedded Fox…
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How the war in Gaza diminished dreams of political reform in Egypt
MENASource July 3, 2025 • 3:41 pm ET Amr Salah Mohamed In early 2023, Egypt’s deeply constrained public sphere showed tentative signs of political opening. Confronted with an economic crisis, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has maintained tight control over the country since 2014, initiated a package of economic and political reforms. Pushed to the…
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What to expect from Iran’s approach to Africa after its war with Israel
The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel, which the United States joined with airstrikes against the Iranian nuclear program, has shaken up the foreign-policy calculus for the Islamic Republic. What happens next will have implications for regions well beyond the Middle East. That is partially because a cornerstone of Iran’s foreign policy is its deepening…
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Iran is a Terrorist State
OPINION — Since 1984, Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism. The designation is justified, given Iran’s continued support of proxies and criminal organizations that kill and terrorize innocent people. That behavior continues today, with the government of Ali Hosseini Khamenei surveilling, harassing, and detaining thousands of Iranians for allegedly aiding Israel —…
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Empowering Afghan women and youth now can help challenge oppressive regimes in the future
Afghanistan, home to over forty million people, today stands under the rule of an ideological movement that has transitioned from an insurgency to a de facto government. The Taliban’s return to power in August 2021 did not result from popular mandate but from a confluence of systemic failures: the collapse of democratic institutions, a fractured…
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Australia-United States: How to disagree with a superpower
Three years ago, having seen Australia subjected to a long campaign of Chinese economic coercion and trade blockages, the newly elected Labor government adopted a phrase to describe its approach to the Asian superpower: “cooperate where we can, disagree where we must, and engage in the national interest”. The approach captured by those words has…
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Second-order impacts of civil artificial intelligence regulation on defense: Why the national security community must engage
Report June 30, 2025 • 10:00 am ET Deborah Cheverton Table of contents Executive summary Introduction Definitions National and supranational regulatory initiatives International regulatory initiatives Analysis Conclusion Executive summary Civil regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is hugely complex and evolving quickly, with even otherwise well-aligned countries taking significantly different approaches. At first glance, little in…
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Norway pension fund blacklists firms supplying Israeli military
Norway’s largest private pension fund has excluded two defense companies from its portfolio, citing their ties to the Israeli military and the war in Gaza. KLP Pension, which oversees about $114 billion, said in a statement on Monday that it won’t invest in Oshkosh Corp. or ThyssenKrupp AG because they sell weapons to the Israeli…
