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Jordan Steps Up its War on ISIS in Syria

By Shehab al-Makahleh

On February 5, Jordan launched airstrikes in southern Syria, directed at the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Jaysh Khalid bin Al Waleed. Occurring shortly after King Abdullah II’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in late January and with US President Donald Trump in Washington at the beginning of February, […]

What Trump Doesn’t Get About NATO and Putin

By By Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal

So how will the West weather an American commander-in-chief who takes everything personally?

Germany Says US Demand for More NATO Burden-Sharing is ‘Fair’

By Sabine Siebold, Reuters

The U.S. call for NATO partners to step up funding for the transatlantic alliance is “a fair demand,” German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday

EU Seeks to Preserve Iran Nuclear Deal

By Ashish Kumar Sen

European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said all sides must abide by terms of the agreement The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said on February 10 that Brussels is committed to the full implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran, and that she came away reassured from her meetings with US officials […]

Russia’s Cyberattacks Put Transatlantic Security in ‘a Whole Different Light’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a former president of Estonia, sees the dangers of digital warfare Russian cyberattacks that aim to disrupt elections in Europe—much like they did in the United States in 2016—have put transatlantic security in “a whole different light,” Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a former president of Estonia, said at the Atlantic Council on February […]

Iran Tests Trump

Iran is testing the weight of US President Donald J. Trump’s words with its latest missile tests, said an Atlantic Council analyst. Tensions between Iran and the United States have been ratcheted up as Trump and his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn said they were putting the Islamic Republic “on notice” in response to Iran’s […]

Report: Putin Interested in Extending Nuclear Treaty, but Trump Told Him it is a Bad Deal

By Jonathan Landay and David Rohde, Reuters

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States,

Trump Must Stand Up to Putin

US President Donald J. Trump needs to take a strong stance against Russian aggression in order to protect US national security interests, according to an Atlantic Council expert. “This is very dangerous for the United States to show such weakness in the face of Kremlin aggression,” said John E. Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s […]

TRADE in ACTION – February 9, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

This week in TRADEinACTION: IMF’s Christine Lagarde visits Atlantic Council, President Trump to meet with Japan’s PM Abe in Washington, DC on February 10, with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on February 13, and the IMF releases its country report on Greece.