Over the past week, the Trump administration took two steps involving the pursuit of critical and rare earth minerals: it ...

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Just a few weeks ago, the Middle East seemed in a rare moment of relative calm: ceasefires were holding in Gaza and [...] ...

Is Oman a neutral arbiter in Yemen? Does its current role in in dispute there promote regional stability or not?

A view from the UK about how Europe is grappling with the shift in U.S. security priorities away from the continent.

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency. He ...

Norman Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. As NIM-I at ODNI, he ...

Ambassador James F. Jeffrey joined the Wilson Center in December 2020 as Chair of the Middle East Program. Ambassador Jeffrey served as the Secretary’s Special Representative for Syria Engagement and ...

Gilman Louie is the co-founder, CEO, and Managing Partner at America’s Frontier Fund and a member of the board of directors at Maxar Corporation. Gilman is a member of the President’s Intelligence ...

Open Source Report for Wednesday, March 19. Report for Wednesday, March 19, 2025. 8:13 AM EST The Cipher Brief curates open source information from around [...] More ...

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently ...

DEEP DIVE — President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze will kneecap U.S. efforts to build alliances around cybersecurity issues and help Russia and China seize the upper hand in global battles over ...