Any Trump deal to end Gaza would likely be “tenuous”

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The Intelligence Community’s 2023 Annual Threat Assessment released in March, found that the Chinese Communist Party constitutes the “most consequential threat” to U.S. national security, particularly with regard to its aggressive pursuits in cyber and quantum technologies. But just a few months later, with a growing…

Volodymyr Zelensky has pledged to “make things right” after Donald Trump paused military aid to Ukraine following a tense meeting in the Oval Office. But that heated exchange between President Trump and President Zelensky is by no means the first time the two men have crossed paths. In 2019, President…

Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said his country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West. Speaking to the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen in Damascus, Sharaa said sanctions on Syria should be lifted and that his group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), should…