Toplines Some Iranian regime elements are signaling that Iran may offer relatively insignificant, nuclear-only concessions, but only if the United States offers complete sanctions relief.[1] The concessions under discussion in the Iranian policy and media space are less significant than the concessions Iran offered in the 2015 nuclear deal, when …

Toplines Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explicitly blamed the United States on February 9 for the lack of progress in ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. Lavrov used a February 9 interview with TV BRICS, a Russian outlet covering BRICS states and candidate states, to accuse the United States of reneging …

Against the backdrop of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, efforts are accelerating to close the long running file of Islamic State detainees held in detention centers in northeastern Syria, through large scale transfers into Iraqi territory. The move reflects a shift in how …