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Costly signaling to Beijing could hurt the U.S. economy.

Iceland and the United States held the annual bilateral Strategic Dialogue in Reykjavik from November 2-3. The Dialogue was led by Director General for International Affairs and Policy Anna Hjartardóttir, Director General for Defense Jónas Allansson, U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Peter Andreoli, and Office of the Secretary of War Principal Director for Europe and NATO Policy Alton Buland, with participation from Icelandic Ambassador to the United States Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir and U.S. Ambassador to Iceland Billy Long.

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Iceland on the occasion of the United States-Iceland Strategic Dialogue.

The United States plans to suspend South Africa and Rwanda from duty-free trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), with the suspensions taking effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

Defense and aerospace companies ILC Dover LP and ILC Astrospace LLC, of Frederica, Delaware, have agreed to pay $13 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in their contracts with the Department of the Army, the Missile Defense Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Israeli attacks kill five Palestinians in Gaza, bringing the death toll since the October 2025 "ceasefire" to nearly 1,600

Tehran is hedging its bets to prepare for Trump’s post-midterms plans.

Serbia’s opposition won at the ballot box, but changing its economy will be even harder.

Which debates matter most for 2028.

A useful tool has been unjustly maligned.

While fleet size is an important measure of operational capacity, a lot depends on how effectively new platforms are equipped, operated, and integrated.

The United States and China are locked in a global competition to determine who will dominate artificial intelligence and whether it will be democracies or autocracies that set the standards and values of the new digital age. The United States leads the world in the sophistication and power of its artificial intelligence models, and its innovation base and investment in research and development remain unparalleled.But AI competition is much broader than modeling alone. It encompasses a technology ecosystem that includes power generation, servers, and deployment in real-world applications. Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, has described the AI industry as a five-layer cake with energy at its base and chips, infrastructure, models, and applications above it. To win the AI race with China, the United States needs to maintain or establish an advantage in each of these layers. And to do that, the United States needs Taiwan.

With a U.S. investigation into intellectual property violations set for conclusion at the end of the month, Hanoi could face fresh trade penalties.

"Its flexibility allows Thai policymakers to justify different, and sometimes contradictory, strategies under the same label."

In recent months, reports have surfaced of Indonesian nationals fighting on the frontlines in occupied Ukraine.

Polls predict Democratic wins, but the U.S. president is focused on his capital renovations.

“In Kashmir, Islam and politics have always remained inseparable. We can smell the link this time too.”

The U.S. military faces “profound” long-term readiness concerns, one expert said.