A pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights US crude inventories fall more than expected - EIA Saudi official selling prices for October likely to rise Gabon coup prompts supply worries China diesel exports seen rising to over 1 mln tons in September NEW […]
Members of the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) stand together during Lebanese army media tour in disputed Bastra farms, near the border with Israel, in southern Lebanon, August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A planned United Nations vote on Wednesday to renew approval for a […]
Kat Duffy is a senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Duffy has more than two decades of experience operating at the nexus of emerging technology, democratic principles, corporate responsibility, and human rights. Most recently, she directed the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web at the Atlantic Council’s
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. CNN — Rare demonstrations continued for the 11th day in Syria’s southwestern city of as-Suwayda on Wednesday, an area populated predominantly by the Druze minority, with residents decrying […]
OPINION — Evolving technology, shifting organizational behaviors, and information overload increasingly tested my decades-old operational instincts and as I looked at retirement options, the progress of technology was complicating my decision making. The real world I was surveying suffered from much of the same complexity as the intelligence business I was leaving. The relic’s clear […]
An oil pumpjack is pictured in the Permian basin, Loco Hills regions, New Mexico, U.S., April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Liz Hampton Acquire Licensing Rights Aug 30 (Reuters) - Barclays on Wednesday raised its Brent price forecast for 2024 by $8 per barrel to $97 a barrel as it expects market balances to tighten further next year. […]
Main Image Credit Former home: the fort where CF333 was based in Logar Province, Afghanistan. Image: TAWW Two years ago, on 28 August 2021, the final British evacuation flight took off from Kabul airport. Thus ended 20 years of British endeavour in Afghanistan. Some was ineffectual, but some inspirational. This is the story of a […]
1 day ago Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. Click here to access ISW’s archive of interactive time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These maps complement the static control-of-terrain map that ISW produces […]
1 day ago The Iran Update aims to inform national security policy by providing timely, relevant, and independent open-source analysis of developments pertaining to Iran and its Axis of Resistance. This update covers political, military, and economic events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. It also provides insights into […]
Speakers Hanan Ashrawi Former Member of the Leadership Committee and Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process Yara M. Asi Non-resident Fellow Arab Center Washington DC Marwa Daoudy Member of the Academic Advisory Board Arab Center Washington DC Mai El-Sadany Executive Director, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) Dana