"The US has said it would it impose sanctions on Iran’s iron, steel, aluminum and copper sectors, which the White House said were Tehran’s 'largest non-petroleum-related source of export revenue'... "Mike Singh, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute in Washington, said the move represented a 'continuation of the "maximum pressure" campaign.' 'It targets a remaining source of export revenue for Iran, and a source of employment for Iranians, so this may add significantly to the economic pressure on Iran,' said [...]

Dan Shapiro is quoted by The Times of Israel's Jacob Magid discussing the role the U.S. administration has played in the past, and currently plays, in negotiating ceasefires between Israel and Hamas. Read the full article here: Full Article

"While Washington has traditionally led the global policing of U.N. and U.S. sanctions, President Trump’s recent overtures to Kim — and his order last month to withdraw new Treasury Department sanctions on North Korea — introduce 'a tremendous sense of uncertainty in the global community,' said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a Treasury Department sanctions official from 2009 to 2013. 'They don’t know whether sanctions will be there the next day...'” Read the full article here: Full Article

"The United States has long built its approach to counterterrorism based on a fundamental distinction between “international terrorism” and “domestic terrorism.” The phrases were always misnomers to some degree, but the recent mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, has revealed just how unsuitable that distinction is for today’s terrorist threats. Governments must reorient their counterterrorism approaches to reflect an environment in which all terrorist threats have transnational dimensions—and they must do so quickly to address the growing threat [...]