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U.S. Announces Nearly $2 Billion Arms Package Amid Visit by Ukraine’s Zelensky

Thursday 22-12-2022 05:31 PM

The Biden administration announced a nearly $2 billion arms package for Ukraine that for the first time includes a Patriot air-defense system to help Kyiv protect itself against the barrage of ...

Biden and Congress Still Haven’t Made Inflation Central in Budget Matters

Thursday 22-12-2022 04:20 PM

Inflation is the economy’s number one problem. The Federal Reserve understands this and has adapted accordingly. Congress and President Biden still haven’t. To be sure, the massive omnibus spending ...

Zelensky echoes Churchill as he tells Congress: We will never surrender

Thursday 22-12-2022 02:38 PM

President Zelensky drew comparisons to Winston Churchill last night when he gave a powerful speech to Congress in Washington, saying that American support was crucial to the defence of his country. ...

Zelensky to meet Biden in US in first foreign trip since Ukraine war began

Wednesday 21-12-2022 04:13 PM

President Zelensky will arrive in Washington this afternoon for a summit with President Biden in what will be his first foreign visit since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian president ...

Positive signals from Iran over nuclear deal put west in a tricky position

Tuesday 20-12-2022 03:44 PM

Wary western powers face an unlikely potential dilemma after a sudden push by Tehran to suggest that progress is being made to remove the last outstanding obstacles to a revived agreement to oversee ...

Iran's Nuclear Proliferation Strategy: U.S. Policy Options

Tuesday 20-12-2022 02:09 PM

On December 13, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Michael Eisenstadt, Mahsa Rouhi, and Suzanne Maloney. Eisenstadt is the Institute’s Kahn Fellow, director of its Military ...

Defy Taliban dogma to build a brighter future for Afghan children

Monday 19-12-2022 05:15 PM

It was a view too good to miss. We had driven along a winding mountain road that opened up to the most spectacular view of the snow-capped mountains stretching off into the distance. I asked the ...

Twenty ways the Ukraine war has changed our world

Sunday 18-12-2022 04:11 PM

1 Weakened Putin — and Russia On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Vladimir Putin seemed at the top of his game. Ten months later, the Russian president is trapped in a war ...

The deadly legacy that Isis left behind

Saturday 17-12-2022 06:11 PM

Mosul was one of the last strongholds of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. By mid-2017, its supporters had been encircled by Iraqi security services and coalition forces in the old city. The ...

US poised to send Patriot missiles in boost for Ukraine

Wednesday 14-12-2022 04:05 PM

The US is set to send advanced Patriot missiles to Ukraine, months after Kyiv asked for the defence system to combat long-range ballistic and cruise missiles fired by Russian forces. A formal ...

Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Is Ordinary People Spying on Russian Forces

Wednesday 14-12-2022 03:37 PM

During Russia’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a large electronics store served Russian forces as a field hospital, barracks and storehouse for food. One morning last summer, ...

In Libya, Mystery Shrouds Handover of Lockerbie Suspect to U.S.

Wednesday 14-12-2022 03:17 PM

The transfer of a Libyan suspect to the United States to stand trial in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has stoked tensions in Libya, where some in the divided country saw the handover, under ...

In a Wary Arctic, Norway Starts to See Russian Spies Everywhere

Tuesday 13-12-2022 06:20 PM

In hindsight, some things just didn’t add up about Jose Giammaria. For one, the visiting researcher at the University of Tromso, in Norway’s Arctic Circle, was ostensibly Brazilian. But he couldn’t ...

Zelensky and Biden Discuss Ukraine’s Grid as Country Scrambles to Restore Power

Tuesday 13-12-2022 03:26 PM

Ukraine rushed to restore power supplies following the latest round of Russian attacks, while President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with President Biden and other Group of Seven leaders following a ...

As Iranian Teens Lead Protests, Scores Are Killed or Imprisoned

Tuesday 13-12-2022 02:57 PM

Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian, once documented sunny outings at her shopping mall in Karaj, an industrial town near Tehran, on her YouTube channel. She often used Western imagery in her ...