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Dispatch Washington · June 18, 2026 The United States and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding on June 14, 2026, ending more than three and a half months of military conflict and establishing a 60-day framework for negotiating the terms of a permanent settlement. [1][2] The MOU, which Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a key…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 NATO member states are advancing a proposal to broaden the command authority of the alliance's top military officer ahead of the July 7-8 leaders summit in Ankara, Turkey, with the goal of enabling faster responses to aerial threats along the Eastern Flank. [POLITICO] Under the current framework, individual member…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard formally rescinded two Intelligence Community Assessments on Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), commonly known as Havana Syndrome, in a two-page memo transmitted to congressional leaders on June 11. The two assessments, declassified versions of which were released in March 2023 and January 2025, had…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 Ukraine plans to formally request $20 billion in new military financing from allied nations at the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, scheduled for June 18. A Ukrainian defense source confirmed the request, framing it as an effort to cement what Kyiv describes as its current battlefield…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 Senior officials from Pakistan and Iran declared June 12 that the United States and Iran had reached an agreed text for a war-ending peace deal, even as President Donald Trump publicly disputed the accuracy of terms circulating in Iranian state media and called Tehran's conduct in negotiations dishonorable. The…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 Both the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee have approved language in their respective fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act drafts that would establish a formal U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, setting up an expected floor debate as critics in both parties press to…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is on course to expire Friday night for the first time since its enactment, after the House and Senate each failed Thursday to extend the authority and Congress departed Washington for a scheduled recess. Section 702, enacted in 2008 as part…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 Three Indian nationals died June 10 after U.S. Central Command fired precision munitions into the engine room of the Palau-flagged oil tanker MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman, marking the first confirmed fatalities since the United States imposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports on April 13 [1][2]…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 President Donald Trump on June 12 announced the nomination of Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve as Director of National Intelligence, hours after the House of Representatives failed to extend a critical surveillance authority that the Pulte controversy had placed in…
Dispatch Washington · June 12, 2026 President Donald Trump canceled a third consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran on June 11, citing progress in negotiations, and declared that all parties had approved a framework agreement in principle. The reversal came within hours of Trump threatening to launch strikes "VERY HARD TONIGHT" and suggesting the U.S…