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...An entrepreneur, Hareth had fallen foul of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party for refusing to join its ranks....
...In the absence of an obvious military or diplomatic option, sanctions — and increasingly financial sanctions — have become the national security policy of choice....
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...Fellow Republican Lindsey Graham tweeted a warning: “It will only be a matter of time before our homeland is again threatened from Afghanistan.”...
...Sistani is the “closest Shia Islam has to a Pope,” according to Hayder al-Khoei, director of foreign relations at the al-Khoei Institute....
...Alejandro Mayorkas, nominee for secretary of homeland security Mr Mayorkas, who was born in Cuba, would be the first Latino head of the department of homeland security, which is responsible for implementing...
...al-Qaeda and its associates.Bradley Bowman, an Afghanistan veteran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said national security interests rather than “the political calendar” should determine America...
...These politicians have been briefed on the Ananyevs by high-profile lawyer John Sandweg — former acting general counsel at the US Department of Homeland Security and now a lawyer advising some noteholders...
...of Homeland Security had the authority to cancel the 2012 rule implemented under Barack Obama, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or Daca, the government had not followed proper procedure...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...The US Department of Health and Human Services denied Bright’s allegations. Other scientists have taken note of Bright’s fate....
...Watheq al-Hishami, director of the Iraq Group for Strategic Studies, a think-tank, said: “Iran wants to pressure Baghdad not to adhere to the [US] sanctions.” Security issues are also on the agenda....
...The national security team that managed the end of the cold war was top drawer. James Baker was a shrewd secretary of state who enjoyed the trust of the president....
...Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, has accused Tehran of sponsoring “Shia militia groups and terrorists to infiltrate and undermine the Iraqi security forces and jeopardise Iraq’s sovereignty”....
...On Monday, Kirstjen Nielsen, Mr Trump’s homeland security secretary, faced a combative White House press corps, with questions about whether the administration’s treatment amounted to child abuse, and why...
...has been separating families on a far larger scale as part of a rapidly intensifying security campaign....
...Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, said Washington had “high confidence” the Russian government was behind the alleged intrusions....
...Tom Bossert, White House homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser, confirmed that the Trump administration was planning its response to the attack....
...He regularly bemoans that few Africans who prosper abroad return to their homeland. Yet he has spent most of his career in the west....
...UN secretary-general António Guterres has described the events as a “protracted tragedy”, although Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the body’s human rights chief, in September called the attacks “a textbook case of...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...A few hours later he announced that he had ordered the Department of Homeland Security to step up the country’s “already extreme” vetting programme....
...“We cannot play international whack-a-mole with each new threat,” John Kelly, secretary for the department of homeland security, said on Wednesday, according to text of his prepared remarks....
...“The decision also shows that the administration’s national security ‘grown-ups’ — particularly secretary of defence Mattis and national security adviser McMaster — are consolidating their grip on policy...
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