Updates | The Week of November 20, 2017
Britany Riley // 11/26/17 //
Justice Department officials are preparing to announce several cases against Iranian suspects, including charges arising out of a hack of HBO, reports Devlin Barett in the Washington Post.
The Trump administration returned North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism (NYTimes, WaPo).
- The current list of state sponsors of terrorism suffers from the perception that it is being an enemy of the United States that matters, not whether a government truly sponsors terrorism, writes Daniel Byman for Lawfare.
The United States, along with Afghan allies, have begun a series of strikes on narcotics labs in southern Afghanistan, marking the beginning of an expanded air war under the Trump administration (WaPo).
The US Government’s drive to cut foreign aid—particularly anticorruption aid—in favor of military spending is shortsighted, even on national security grounds, writes Nick Gersh at the Global Anticorruption Blog.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on a “large-scale” counterfeiting ring run out of Iran (WSJ).