National Security Briefs

National Security Briefs

After a spate of recent Houthi attacks on Israel, commercial shipping, and U.S. naval vessels, the Biden administration announced on November 21 that it is considering re-adding the Iran-backed group—also known as Ansar Allah—to the U.S. lists of Foreign Terrorist

On December 3, the United States launched an airstrike against Iran-backed terrorists in Iraq as they prepared to launch a drone attack against U.S. forces. This was the first known use of preemptive U.S. military force to disrupt an attack

Iran and Hezbollah have been supportive of, complicit in, and/or participants in the war against Israel launched on October 7 with Hamas’s savage attack against Israel. Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon has continually attacked Israeli civilian and military targets. In

On November 21 and 22, the United States conducted three strikes against Iran-linked forces after a close-range ballistic missile attack against the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq caused eight injuries. The first U.S. strike was a spontaneous attack by a