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As a Strait of Hormuz Standoff Grows, Will Trump’s Fragile Iran Ceasefire Hold?

(Mariel Ferragamo, Diana Roy - Council on Foreign Relations) The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on the evening of April...

US military to stay deployed near Iran until ‘real agreement’ reached: Trump

(AFP/Al Arabiya) US President Donald Trump said early Thursday that US forces deployed near Iran would remain stationed in the area until a “real...

Chart shows Iran may have put sea mines in Strait of Hormuz

(The Associated Press/Al Arabiya) Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps put sea mines...

Trump meets NATO chief as US mulls withdrawal from alliance

(Abbey Fenbert - The Kyiv Independent) U.S. President Donald Trump held a closed-door meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Washington, D.C. on...

Russia summons Japanese ambassador over Ukraine drone deal

(Abbey Fenbert - The Kyiv Independent) Russia on April 8 summoned Akira Muto, Japan's ambassador to Moscow, to protest a recent deal between a...

From alignment to action: Building a durable US-Argentina critical minerals partnership

(Reed Blakemore, Alexis Harmon, and Ignacio Albe - Atlantic Council) For decades, Argentina has been viewed as a mining opportunity that never quite materialized....

Don’t overlook how ordinary Iranians view the war

(Kelly J. Shannon - Atlantic Counil) Limited reports emerging from Iran indicate that many Iranians had hoped the war would topple the regime, but...

What Ukraine’s wartime tech ecosystem can teach the rest of the world

(Valeriya Ionan - Atlantic Council) Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has scaled up drone manufacturing and streamlined its process for defense and technology innovation....

Sanctions waivers on Russian and Iranian oil are set to expire. Here’s what Trump should do next

(Maia Nikoladze and Daniel Fried - Atlantic Council) Temporary US licenses allowing Russian and Iranian oil sales are backfiring by generating major revenue windfalls...

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