Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading… November 14, 2014

International News MENA Hagel: ISIL Degraded But Remains Dangerous DoD News United States and coalition forces have made progress in recent months against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, but the campaign will be “a long and difficult struggle,”...

What We Are Reading… November 7, 2014

International News Coverage MENA Why Barack Obama is writing letters to Iran’s Supreme Leader David Blair / The Telegraph Analysis: The real aim of the correspondence is to reassure Iran’s leader that “regime change” is not America’s goal...

What We Are Reading… October 10, 2014

International News Coverage Middle East, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Piracy Top News: ISIS Captures Kurdish Headquarters in Kobani The Atlantic Council / MENASOURCE ISIS militants overran the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the battleground...

What We Are Reading… September 26, 2014

International News Coverage Middle East, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism As U.S. takes on the Islamic State, al-Qaeda remains degraded but not defeated Greg Miller and Kevin Sieff / The Washington Post Zawahiri was silent on a far more sensitive...

What We Are Reading … August 19, 2014

Ebola Crisis: Liberia Finds ‘Missing Patients’ BBC Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has said.   Ukraine Businesses Look for Alternatives to Russia Gabe...