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FPI Overnight Brief: May 21, 2010
Saturday, 22 May 2010, 10:38 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
Dennis C. Blair, the president's most senior intelligence adviser, became the first high-profile departure from President Obama's national security team on Thursday. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief - May 17 2010
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 3:49 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
On the evening of Wednesday, June 2, FPI Director Dan Senor will give a first-hand report on the changing situation in the Middle East at the Union League Club in New York City. For more information, and to RSVP, please visit the Events page on FPI's ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: May 14, 2010
Saturday, 15 May 2010, 10:58 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that the U.S. needs to do a better job of selling the pivotal military operation in Kandahar, known as the birthplace of the Taliban, in order to get the all-important support of the Afghan people. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: May 7, 2010
Saturday, 8 May 2010, 11:24 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, the opposition Conservative Party made big gains in near-complete results on Friday but the country seemed headed for electoral stalemate. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: April 30, 2010
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 10:53 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
The Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi released a video statement on Thursday calling on workers and teachers to join the reformist cause, in a bold new attempt to broaden and energize the country’s flagging protest movement. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: April 23, 2010
Saturday, 24 April 2010, 10:08 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
Iraqi officials said Thursday that they have detained the mastermind behind a string of bombings last year that targeted key government facilities in the capital. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: April 16, 2010
Saturday, 17 April 2010, 11:11 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
The ousted president of Kyrgyzstan left the country in a deal with the political party who seized power after violent protests last week, ending a long standoff and clearing a way for Washington to recognize the strategically located nation's government. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Friday, 16 April 2010, 1:17 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
The evening of Tuesday, April 19, FPI and AEI's Critical Threats Project will address the spread of the al-Qaeda network to Yemen and Somalia. Though this event is specifically-focused towards young professionals, all are welcome to attend and invite their friends and ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: April 9, 2010
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 11:35 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Thursday the most significant arms-control treaty in nearly two decades, declaring a new chapter of cooperation between the nations on nuclear issues and beyond. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: April 2, 2010
Saturday, 3 April 2010, 12:27 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
U.S. President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to work together on pressing Iran over its nuclear activities, but Hu did not openly commit to new sanctions on Tehran, according to official reports on Friday. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: April 1, 2010
Saturday, 3 April 2010, 10:39 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
After months of resisting the idea of new Security Council sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, the Chinese government appears to have taken a step closer to supporting them, agreeing to enter negotiations over the language of a new resolution ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: March 26, 2010
Saturday, 27 March 2010, 1:21 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
Iran: “Reza Kahili” writes: We can’t allow Khamenei’s statements to deceive us. Whether it is haram or not, Iran is almost certainly developing nuclear weapons, and an Islamic Republic of Iran with atomic bombs would strongly destabilize the ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Friday, 26 March 2010, 1:20 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
Overnight Brief is a daily product of the Foreign Policy Initiative , which seeks to promote an active U.S. foreign policy committed to robust support for democratic allies, human rights, a strong American military equipped to meet the challenges ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 6:14 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
Washington’s relations with Israel appeared to have reached a new low last night as the White House imposed a virtual news blackout on a meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 10:54 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russia’s foreign minister clashed publicly Thursday over an announcement that Russia would complete a nuclear power plant in Iran this summer. Mrs. Clinton said the announcement, made during her visit, ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Saturday, 13 March 2010, 11:00 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
Iraq: With more than 30 percent of the vote tallied in the southern provinces of Najaf and Babil, Maliki appeared to carve out a narrow victory over a rival coalition of Shiite parties. He was part of that coalition when he was elected to parliament ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Saturday, 6 March 2010, 1:03 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
On the evening of Thursday, March 11, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Institute for the Study of War will host a panel discussion on the Iraq elections for young professionals in the Washington DC area. RSVP on FPI’s website. More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 2:24 pm | Foreign Policy Initiative
The presidents of Iran and Syria on Thursday ridiculed U.S. policy in the region and pledged to create a Middle East "without Zionists," combining a slap at recent U.S. overtures and a threat to Israel with an endorsement of one of the region's ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief: February 19, 2010
Saturday, 20 February 2010, 11:46 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
Iran: The United Nations’ nuclear inspectors declared for the first time on Thursday that they had extensive evidence of “past or current undisclosed activities” by Iran’s military to develop a nuclear warhead, an unusually strongly worded conclusion ... More >>
FPI Overnight Brief
Saturday, 13 February 2010, 11:26 am | Foreign Policy Initiative
The balance in the Iranian uprising is shifting in the regime's favor. Iran dealt a blow to the opposition Thursday, rallying tens of thousands of pro-regime marchers and disrupting, sometimes violently, protests long-planned to show continuing dissatisfaction ... More >>