EXPERT INTERVIEW — Israeli airstrikes against targets associated with Iran’s nuclear program early Friday have seemingly dealt a devastating blow as [...]
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CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – President Donald Trump made a number of headlines this week as he led an impressive delegation of government and private [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The arsenals of nuclear powers are growing, the number of nations with nuclear weapons may soon rise as well, and Russia has used [...]
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OPINION — The real war will begin where the last one never ended: Iraq. With President Donald Trump back in office and reaffirming his pledge to [...]
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OPINION — The real war will begin where the last one never ended: Iraq. With President Donald Trump back in office and reaffirming his pledge to [...]
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BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT - In the early days of the Trump administration, talk of peace deals and ceasefires were focused on the wars in Ukraine and in [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW— For the past month, the United States military has been carrying out its most robust campaign yet against the Houthi militia, which [...]
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OPINION — Numerous U.S. allies have expressed concerns regarding the nuclear weapons programs of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. Most of those [...]
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SPECIAL REPORT – The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) annual assessment of threats facing the U.S. puts narcotics trafficking at the top of the [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW – Just a few weeks ago, the Middle East seemed in a rare moment of relative calm: ceasefires were holding in Gaza and Lebanon; the [...]
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OPINION — For more than three decades, Oman has served in the role of mediator for the resolution of disputes in Yemen. This began after north and [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW – Almost lost in the Trump administration’s push for an end to the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and its tariff wars against China, [...]
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OPINION — Based on my numerous assignments abroad, my work for the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey as his Special Assistant and [...]
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As the second Trump Administration took office, it found a Middle East landscape that had been transformed dramatically in the last year alone. [...]
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This is part three in a three-part series by Cipher Brief Expert and former Assistant Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts, who also [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW — Russian President Vladimir Putin received his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, in Moscow on Friday to sign a “comprehensive [...]
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