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February 1, 2023 Soldiers of Misfortune The Wagner Group is not, as the name might suggest, a club for lovers of epic German operas. Its members are often called mercenaries but that’s imprecise because these soldiers of misfortune are not... February 1, 2023 Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February FDD’s experts and scholars assess the administration’s foreign policies and offer trendlines for the areas they watch. January 31, 2023 DOJ Reveals New Iran-backed Assassination Attempt on Iranian American Journalist Latest Developments The Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed on Friday that the FBI disrupted another plot to assassinate Brooklyn-based Iranian -American journalist Masih Alinejad. A federal court in... January 31, 2023 Preparing for strategic competition: The need for irregular warfare professional military education Excerpt The Department of Defense (DOD) does not provide the irregular warfare (IW) professional military education necessary for success in competition and conflict in the 21st century. This is a not... January 31, 2023 Israel Strikes Iranian Military Facility Israeli drones struck an advanced weapons-production facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan on Sunday morning, dealing a potential blow to Tehran’s military infrastructure. According to The Jerusalem Post, Western intelligence and foreign sources described the strike as a success, disputing Iranian claims that the blasts caused only minor damage to the roof. The attack may impede Iran’s ability to arm Russia, which has used Iranian loitering munitions — popularly called suicide or kamikaze drones — to strike civilian targets in Ukraine. January 31, 2023 America should reach out to children of Russia’s elites Excerpt As the Russian military expands — to 1.5 million troops, according to the Russian defense ministry, or even 2 million, according to Ukrainian intelligence officials — you can be sure one... January 30, 2023 Kabul Attack Network commander brags about suicide assaults in TV interview A co-leader of what the U.S. military called the Kabul Attack Network appeared on Afghan television and bragged about his role in killing thousands of Afghans and hundreds of U.S. and Coalition personnel... January 29, 2023 Israel Ramps Up Security, Warns Against Vigilantism After Jerusalem Attacks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his Security Cabinet on Saturday to authorize ramped-up counter-terrorism measures following two Palestinian shooting attacks in east Jerusalem. In the bloodiest incident since the 2008 Jerusalem attack in which a terrorist murdered eight yeshiva students, a gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue in the capital’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood following Shabbat evening prayers; police shot him dead during a brief pursuit. January 28, 2023 If China Cracked U.S. Encryption, Why Would It Tell Us? When Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States immediately published a paper announcing the achievement. Instead, they kept it to... January 28, 2023 Only America Can Resolve the Cyprus Question In 2013, a political counselor at the Turkish embassy in Washington asked me out to lunch to discuss my plans and vision for the Institute of Turkish Studies, which I was then executive director of. After... January 28, 2023 Time For Palestinian Leaders to End “Pay-to-Slay” Terror Bounties Earlier this month, Israel’s new finance minister Bezalel Smotrich withheld just under $40 million of tax revenue that Israel collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Smotrich told reporters... January 27, 2023 Putin is fighting another secret war – one dangerously ignored by the West While the world is focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s propaganda operations are still global in nature. From South America to Africa, Russian agitators are working to... January 27, 2023 Hamas Agents Caught Recruiting in West Bank, Israeli Security Agency Says Latest Developments The Israeli Security Agency (ISA), also known as the Shin Bet, revealed on Wednesday that it had uncovered an elaborate terror recruiting operation in the West Bank led by Farah Hamed,... January 27, 2023 Mapping the Protests in Iran January 27, 2023 Ukraine Must Build on Anti-Corruption Firings With Further Reform President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired a spate of senior Ukrainian officials this week after promising to crack down on corruption amid public anger over graft scandals. With these purges, Zelenskyy seeks... January 27, 2023 Coming Out as an Arab Advocate of Peace with Israel Excerpt As a student in Lebanon in the 1990s, I believed that the Jewish state sought to occupy Arab lands “from the Euphrates to the Nile,” and I was hardly alone. My view of Israel began to change,... January 26, 2023 Israeli Forces Eliminate Terror Cell Planning Major Attacks Israeli special forces conducted an unusually complex raid in Jenin on Thursday, eliminating a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) cell suspected of planning major attacks. The Palestinian terrorist group responded by issuing threats of escalation. According to witnesses, the early-morning operation in the West Bank flashpoint town involved a vanguard of undercover commandos who, posing as milk delivery men, closed in on a safe house where a PIJ planning meeting was taking place. The IDF later released drone footage of terrorists attacking Israeli forces from civilian rooftops during the three-hour clash. January 26, 2023 EU and UK Impose Human Rights Sanction on Iran, but Not on Its President and Supreme Leader Latest Developments The European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States rolled out coordinated sanctions against elements of the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus on Monday, citing the... January 25, 2023 To Fight the Rial’s Plunge, Tehran Resorts to Tactics that Failed Before The Iranian rial fell to its lowest value in the country’s history this week, trading at 449,000 to the dollar in the unregulated market. This marks a setback for Iran’s new central bank chief, Mohammad... January 25, 2023 Understanding the US Designation of the Wagner Group as a Transnational Criminal Organisation Last week US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the Treasury Department will designate the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organisation... January 25, 2023 How human rights activists chased off Venezuela’s strongman The strongman leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was due to attend a heads of state summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Buenos Aires on Monday. Maduro planned to hold important... January 25, 2023 Shin Bet: Hamas Attempting to Recruit Palestinians in the West Bank On Wednesday, Israel’s security agency (Shin Bet) alleged that Hamas in the Gaza Strip was attempting to recruit Palestinians in the West Bank that would act as facilitators to attacks against Israelis.... January 25, 2023 Erdogan Seizes on Quran Burning as New Pretext to Block Sweden’s NATO Accession A far-right activist, Rasmus Paludan, burned a Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Sweden last weekend after authorities granted him permission. The event, which Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu condemned as a “hate crime,” threatens to derail Sweden’s NATO membership bid. January 25, 2023 Reading Putin’s mind I’ve begun talking to myself. Not good. But who else can I talk to? I’m surrounded by fools and incompetents. Yes, there are those who defend me and the special military operation I initiated a year... January 24, 2023 Woke ‘ESG’ investors guilty of anti-Semitism as they target Israel Israel boycotters have a new home for waging economic war against the world’s only Jewish state: environmental, social and governance ratings. Federal and state officials should respond by demanding... January 24, 2023 With an Eye on Adversaries, the U.S. and Israel Conduct Major Military Exercise The United States and Israel kicked off the week-long Juniper Oak 23 multi-domain military exercise on Monday in Israel. A senior U.S. defense official called it the “most significant” bilateral exercise... January 24, 2023 Biden Envoy Met Secretly with Iranians Amid Tehran’s Violent Crackdown on Protests Latest Developments Iran International reported in an exclusive story last week that U.S. special envoy for Iran Robert Malley met at least three times with Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Saeed... January 24, 2023 U.S. military strikes Shabaab in central Somalia The U.S. military targeted Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, in a pair of strikes in central Somalia over the past several days. The first attack took place on Jan. 20 near the town of Galcad... January 23, 2023 National Strategy for Countering North Korea Excerpt Since the emergence of the nuclear threat from North Korea in the early 1990s, the primary objective of U.S. policy has been to convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program. While... January 23, 2023 Northern Mali clans swear allegiance to JNIM Over the weekend, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch in the Sahel and much of West Africa, published photos showing several notables from various local clans in northern... January 23, 2023 Congress Questions Biden Plan to Sell F-16s to Turkey The Biden administration informally notified Congress of its intention to sell 40 new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, along with 79 upgrade kits to modernize the Turkish Air Force’s existing F-16 fleet.... January 20, 2023 Sanctions Have Hurt Iran’s Aviation Sector, But Not Enough Excerpt The Islamic Republic of Iran’s civil aviation sector has played a vital role in the regime’s support of terror, repressive dictators, and military aggression around the world. It provides logistical... January 20, 2023 Pentagon Transfers Some Israel-based Artillery Shells to Support Ukraine The Pentagon is reportedly using part of a military stockpile it has maintained in Israel for decades to send hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to help the Ukrainian military defeat the Russian invasion. According to the New York Times, the United States has transferred approximately half of an expected total of 300,000 rounds of 155mm howitzer shells to Ukraine. The move represents a notable use of the Israel-based stockpile to aid a partner outside the region and compensate for insufficient domestic munitions production capacity in the United States. January 20, 2023 Ekrem Imamoglu Is the Best Chance for Turkish Democracy Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted at holding what the Washington Post has described as the “world’s most important election in 2023,” on May 14. This would put the date of the... January 20, 2023 Washington must label Russian private army Wagner Group as the terrorist group it is Recent media reports show that the Biden administration is considering designating the infamous Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, as a terrorist entity. While such a move may seem counterintuitive... January 20, 2023 Database: Replacing weapons NATO allies sent to Ukraine could yield $21.7 Billion in U.S. sales ... January 20, 2023 Stocking Ukraine could generate foreign military sales boom Replacing the military equipment transferred to Ukraine by the United States’ NATO allies could lead to roughly $21.7 billion in foreign military sales or direct commercial sales for American industry,... January 19, 2023 Calls to Designate IRGC as Terrorist Organization Grow in the UK Calls to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization grew in the United Kingdom this week after Iran executed a prominent dual British-Iranian citizen on Saturday morning. According to Iranian news sources, Iran hanged former deputy defense minister, Alireza Akbari, 61, after accusing him of spying for the UK’s MI6 — the British equivalent to the CIA. According to the BBC, Akbari’s execution came after he was tortured and forced to confess on camera, though he later recanted. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed outrage over the execution, while the UK Foreign Office “summoned” Iran’s chargé d’affaires in London — a formality that entails a meeting with host nation officials to hear complaints. January 19, 2023 Iran, Iran and Iran: Only one topic should dominate talks with Sullivan and Blinken President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s visit to Israel this week will include a meeting with his counterpart, the head of the National Security Council Tzachi Hanegbi,... January 18, 2023 A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity... January 18, 2023 How A Digital Footprint Provides A Criminal Foothold FDD’s TCIL conducted a pilot demonstrating the similarities between offensive cyber operations and cyber-enabled influence operations. January 17, 2023 World leaders should press Switzerland on arms deliveries to Ukraine As government officials and business leaders from around the world flock to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting this week, Ukrainian soldiers continue to fight and die to protect... January 17, 2023 The Three Amigos Summit In Mexico City last week, the president of the United States met with the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada for what was dubbed the “Three Amigos Summit.” The notion that Joe Biden,... January 16, 2023 Hamas Releases Video of Israeli Hostage Held Since 2014 Latest Developments Hamas released an undated Hebrew-language video on Monday purporting to show Avera Mengistu, one of two Israeli civilians the Palestinian terrorist group is holding in the Gaza Strip.... January 16, 2023 Halevi Takes Charge of IDF With An Eye on Iran and Domestic Politics Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi assumed command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday, bringing both command experience and an intelligence analyst's caution to a role likely to be tested on multiple fronts against both the regime in Iran and those trying to thrust the IDF into domestic politics. January 15, 2023 Germany’s Bet on China Is a Crisis in the Making BASF, the German chemical products behemoth, made a bet on Russia in recent decades. After Russia invaded Ukraine, that bet failed to pay off. Now it’s making another risky bet on China, just as great... January 13, 2023 At the United Nations, Israel is ‘the Jew Among the Nations’ China presented itself as a champion of Muslim rights last Tuesday, when it asked the United Nations Security Council to hold a special session to address an Israeli minister’s visit to the Temple Mount,... January 13, 2023 Israel and Arab Allies Conclude Negev Forum Without Jordan Latest Developments Senior officials from the United States, Israel, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) wrapped up two days of meetings on Tuesday as part of the Negev Forum in... January 13, 2023 Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine Air raid sirens rang in the new year for Kyiv last week as Ukraine faced another crushing barrage of Russian missiles and Iranian drones. Rather than helping Ukraine defend itself for “as long... January 12, 2023 State places $10 million bounty on Kenyan Shabaab commander Just a few days after placing a similar bounty on Maalim Ayman, the head of Shabaab’s Kenyan military wing, the U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program is now also offering $10 million for...

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