by Ariel Gans | Oct 19, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A high ranking Treasury official told senators on Tuesday that increased cooperation and coordination with U.S. allies will strengthen the U.S. sanction policy. A day after the Biden White House issued its long-awaited sanctions policy review, Deputy...
by Julia Mueller | Oct 14, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Once an example of democratic success in the Middle East, Tunisia has faltered in the decade since the Arab Spring, experts said at a Thursday hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Oct 13, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Twenty years after 9/11, and two months after the American exit from Afghanistan, the United States’ strategic and often tenuous partnership with Pakistan has come full circle. The military and diplomatic relationship between the two countries “stands at...
by Julia Shapero | Oct 13, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Domestic violent extremist groups have found an increasing number of U.S. military veterans receptive to their recruitment efforts, experts warned lawmakers on Wednesday. “Veterans, along with active duty and reservists, have been involved in...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The naval engineer and his wife who allegedly tried to sell U.S. nuclear submarine secrets appeared today for the first time in federal court. Jonathan and Diana Toebee appeared this morning in federal district court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Oct 6, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — As the government fought to shield testimony on the CIA’s use of torture at CIA black sites, it was the rationale for continuing to hold military detainees at Guantanamo Bay that seemed to preoccupy a number of justices during Wednesday’s oral arguments....