A ransomware attack perpetrated by a criminal organization recently struck the Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline operator in the United States. The alleged perpetrator has grown increasingly brazen over the past several months while using Darkside ransomware as a service. Due to the difficulty of attribution, to say nothing …

A flurry of diplomacy is laying the groundwork for a U.S.-Iran agreement on a mutual return to the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal. The core of the regional discussions focuses on rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Iraqi leaders are seeking to assume the …

The Trump administration’s signature foreign policy achievement was supposed to unify the Middle East behind a common goal of peace. Some say they paved the way for violence instead. When President Donald Trump sought to tout the benefits of new agreements that normalized Arab countries’ relationships with Israel, the first …