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What Would Follow a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation?

What Would Follow a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation?

DEEP DIVE — On November 24, 2025, President Trump launched a process to designate Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan as [...] More

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President Biden's Middle East: A Briefing with Norman Roule

President Biden's Middle East: A Briefing with Norman Roule

President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming its Middle East agenda on adhering to campaign promises, examining current policies and undoing some [...] More

COVID and Navigating the New Middle East Challenges

COVID and Navigating the New Middle East Challenges

The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has added a significant layer of uncertainty to an already complicated situation in the Middle East. The [...] More

OSINT Global Trendline Report: The Middle East and Africa

OSINT Global Trendline Report: The Middle East and Africa

The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trend Line Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national [...] More

The Growing Threat of Iranian Missiles

Bottom Line Up FrontIran’s ballistic missile capabilities enable it to project power while compensating for an otherwise modest conventional military [...] More

Jordan's $2.5b Security Lifeline to the Future

Jordan's $2.5b Security Lifeline to the Future

While the media is dominated by events in North Korea, it would be wise to devote some space to the decision this week by Saudi Arabia, the United [...] More

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Syria’s Reality: A View from Amman

With increasingly confusing statements and actions from the White House and the Pentagon on U.S. policy toward Syria, The Cipher Brief presented a [...] More

Jordan: A Kingdom of 'Easy Recruits' for ISIS and Al Qaeda

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan faces a precarious internal security situation due to the multiplicity and ubiquity of potential terrorist threats [...] More

Killings Fray Jordan-Israel Ties

On July 23, an Israeli security guard shot and killed two Jordanians in the Israeli Embassy compound in Amman. In the aftermath of this incident, [...] More

Why Regional Dynamics Open the Door for Jordan-Israel Cooperation

Jordan finds itself at a precarious strategic position. The Hashemite Kingdom is located at the heart of a degenerating region and has absorbed [...] More

Trump So Far: The Middle East View

Trump So Far: The Middle East View

When Donald Trump was elected as the 45th U.S. President, there was reason for some comfort amongst the United States’ traditional Arab allies in the [...] More

Jordan: Stability Amidst Chaos

Jordan: Stability Amidst Chaos

Often hailed as an island of stability amidst a region of chaos, Jordan’s security remains an issue of paramount importance for the United States. [...] More

Don’t Take Stability for Granted

Despite a recent wave of terrorist attacks in northern Jordan, the country’s government remains strong. In fact, according to Sultan Barakat, [...] More