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February 17, 2025
From Afghanistan to America: the rising reach of the Islamic State Khorasan Province
Four years after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the threat posed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has expanded beyond the region, now endangering both American and European soil.
February 14, 2025
Ukraine bets on unmanned systems with expansion of best drone units
On February 9, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced a new initiative to expand some of Ukraine’s most capable drone units and replicate their strengths across the force. Amid a shortage...
February 14, 2025
Trump’s Gaza Plan and Its Larger Meaning
The Disruptor in Chief is back. Donald Trump’s frenetic issuance of executive orders in the early weeks of his second term has Washington gasping for breath. But it was a press conference—Trump’s...
February 14, 2025
The vast majority of US Jews support Israel. Let’s act on that knowledge.
Reading the results of a poll of American Jews demonstrating that a strong majority of the community believes that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, frowning harshly upon the tiny minority of their number...
February 14, 2025
Russia is using Trump’s Greenland rhetoric to boost its Crimea claims
Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted that President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory of Greenland is “not a joke.” At least one person,...
February 14, 2025
Turkistan Islamic Party leader directs Syrian fighters from Afghanistan
Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the emir of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) who serves on Al Qaeda’s executive leadership council and resides in Afghanistan, is currently directing the group’s fighters...
February 14, 2025
The Problem with Christian Martyrs
In a modern-day Golgotha, on a desolate beach in Libya ten years ago, twenty-one men in orange jumpsuits were marched to their deaths by black-clad executioners. The world...
February 13, 2025
The ‘First Amendment’ Dodge at UC Berkeley
In “Mr. Trump, Investigate My Campus” (op-ed, Feb. 3) Prof. Steven Davidoff Solomon calls for an investigation of incidents of antisemitism at the University of California, Berkeley.
February 13, 2025
Pakistani and Tajik Taliban open training camps in Afghanistan
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) and Jamaat Ansarullah (JA) have established training camps in Afghanistan with support from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team reported.
February 13, 2025
Trump and Hegseth are half right. We cannot have Minsk 3.0
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth was half right when he announced today in Brussels that negotiations over the future of Ukraine “must not be a Minsk 3.0.” He is right that the fiasco of Minsk cannot be repeated, but wrong to write off Nato membership and the US security guarantee in Europe. ...
February 13, 2025
Disruptions and Challenges in the Middle East
The world widely expects Donald Trump’s White House return to bring change to the Middle East. Former President Joe Biden looked on helplessly as the war that Hamas launched on October 7, 2023, dragged...
February 13, 2025
US pushes countries to repatriate nationals in Syria’s displaced-persons camps
The US is urging countries to repatriate their nationals who reside in displaced-persons camps in eastern Syria. The potential change comes at a critical juncture in Syria after the fall of the Bashar...
February 13, 2025
Erdoğan’s fourth term, brought to you courtesy of Turkey’s Kurds?
When Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ran for re-election in 2023, he told voters, it would be the last time. Under current provisions, Turkey’s President can only hold office for two five-year terms, but it now appears that Erdoğan will seek a (constitutionally prohibited) fourth term.
February 12, 2025
Marco Rubio must convince Europe that ‘America First 2.0’ has replaced Biden-era US decline
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a historic opportunity at this week’s Munich Security Conference to define what an “America First” foreign policy means for Europe in President Trump’s second...
February 12, 2025
Trump’s question for Arab rulers
More than 6 million Syrians fled their homeland during that country’s almost 14-year-long civil war. Other nations took them in. It was the humanitarian thing to do, fulfilling their obligation under...
February 12, 2025
Whither the Silicon Shield: China’s Plans for Reunification and Supply Chain Risks
“The enemy gets a vote.” The strategic planning axiom might be a cliché, but it is a useful one. And it may be dangerously overlooked in assessing the utility of Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield,” the...
February 11, 2025
How Trump’s war on cartel cash can stop fentanyl enablers — and save American lives
“China and the Mexican cartels are not trying to create drug addicts — they [are] trying and succeeding at killing off our people — primarily young men. If we were in a traditional war with over...
February 11, 2025
Syria’s crackdown on smuggling sparks tensions with Hezbollah and Lebanon
The border between Lebanon and Syria has witnessed intense clashes in recent days as the newly formed Syrian army deployed reinforcements to Al Qusayr in the western Homs Governorate.
February 10, 2025
Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense
President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...
February 10, 2025
What to know about Jordanian King Abdullah’s visit to Washington
Jordan’s King Abdullah II will visit Washington on February 11, marking the first official trip by an Arab leader to the United States during US President Donald Trump’s second term. The visit...
February 10, 2025
US-backed Syrian Free Army continues to patrol Tanf area in southern Syria
On February 9, the Syrian Free Army (SFA) said in a post on social media that it provided medical services to more than 60 Bedouin patients in southern Syria as part of a mobile clinic. The Syrian...
February 9, 2025
The major opportunity Trump is giving Israel? Not what you think
The meeting between former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was, undoubtedly, one of the warmest encounters we have seen in many years. As a former National...
February 7, 2025
Trump must keep arming Ukraine if he wants a good peace deal
The Trump White House briefly halted and then quietly resumed arms shipments to Ukraine amid internal disagreement over U.S. assistance for Kyiv. The administration landed on the right move,...
February 7, 2025
A suppressed voice for truth from within the United Nations
When histories of the war in the Gaza Strip are written—a war triggered by the Hamas pogrom in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—the name of Alice Nderitu probably won’t garner more than a footnote...
February 6, 2025
Syrian government forces enter Afrin, signaling a change in control
Forces from Syria’s General Security Department entered the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin on February 6, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
February 6, 2025
Iran May Be on the Verge of a Nuclear Weapon; Will Israel and the United States Act?
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu just met in Washington — and not a moment too soon. A team of scientists in Iran is reportedly working to short-cut Tehran’s route to nuclear weapons in case the Iranian leadership orders their complete construction.
February 6, 2025
Unpacking Iran’s counterintelligence apparatus
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently issued “seeking information” posters for two operatives of the Islamic Republic’s intelligence services implicated in the 2007 abduction...
February 5, 2025
Can any of the plans for Gaza prevent a Hamas takeover?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the US this week for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met with four of the released hostages prior to the trip. The four IDF women soldiers had been freed in the hostage deal that Witkoff played a key role in sealing before Trump took office.
February 5, 2025
What does – and doesn’t – make sense about Trump’s Gaza plan
‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip – and we will do a job with it, too’, Donald Trump has said. He also stated that the US would ‘own’ it.
February 5, 2025
US, UAE conducting airstrikes in northern Somalia
On February 1, the United States launched at least six airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Somalia’s semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland in support of that region’s current military...
February 5, 2025
Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs
Excerpt Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore and the creator of the economic miracle there, was a famously strict ruler. Considered by some a “benevolent dictator,” he countenanced no deviation...
February 5, 2025
Defeating the Houthis
President Trump has re-designated the Houthi rebels of Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization. That they deserve the label is indisputable. Mr. Trump put the Houthis on the list of Foreign...
February 4, 2025
Drone attack targets gas field in northern Iraq
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) targeted the Khor Mor gas field in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region on February 2, 2025. It is the latest kamikaze drone attack on the gas field run by Dana Gas.
February 4, 2025
USAID was rotten, but Trump needs the ‘soft power’ of foreign aid done right
By abruptly shuttering the US Agency for International Development (USAID) only two weeks after returning to Washington, President Trump is signaling that he will bring accountability and efficiency...
February 4, 2025
Naim Qassem announces the date of Nasrallah’s funeral
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February 4, 2025
South African Anti-Israel NGOs Commemorate the Holocaust by Hijacking Its Memory
Anti-Israel groups commemorated the Holocaust by hijacking its memory. Gift of the Givers and other South African anti-Israel organizations marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by screening a film that...
February 3, 2025
Lebanon and Israel Should Start Talking About Peace
I spent the last decade away from Lebanon in self-imposed exile. I became an intellectual and political pariah for demanding immediate and unconditional peace between Lebanon and Israel. I was told not...
February 3, 2025
Assad Is Gone, Syria’s Captagon Trade Isn’t
Deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his inner circle made billions from manufacturing and exporting Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine. On the same day, Assad fled to Russia,...
February 3, 2025
Netanyahu must push Trump to take real action on Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing in Washington for one of his most important meetings in recent years with President Trump. Netanyahu has the honor of being the first leader invited...
February 3, 2025
Cracks in the Core? The Meaning Behind Iran’s Assassinations
On January 18, 2025, an Iranian judicial employee assassinated Supreme Court Justices Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh. Their deaths may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of a broader dynamic that is undermining the stability of the Islamic Republic.
February 3, 2025
Biden Started a Process to Protect US National Security from China. Trump Should Finish It.
For years, warning lights have been flashing around the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) drive to assert global dominance and reshape international governance in the likeness of its own oppressive regime....
February 3, 2025
Eyal Zamir, well known to industry, named Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff
Israel’s Minister of Defense Israel Katz has tapped Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eyal Zamir to be the new Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, the government here announced Feb. 1. Zamir will take up his post...
February 3, 2025
‘Not worried’: South Africa sets itself on a collision course with Trump
On the sidelines of last month’s World Economic Forum, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa casually declared he is “not worried” about his country’s relationship with the United...
February 2, 2025
Trump’s Second Shot at Peace in the Middle East
With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Washington is bracing for a reprise of the president’s now-famous unpredictable and mercurial approach to governance. But if there was one area of Trump’s...
February 1, 2025
Why Does Qatar Keep Helping Terrorists?
Just hours before leaving power, the Biden administration agreed to trade a Taliban prisoner for two Americans held in Afghanistan. Qatar facilitated the swap. Twelve hundred miles away, the Qatar-brokered...
January 31, 2025
The Iranian Nuclear Threat in an Era of Self-deterrence
Nuclear weapons are the ultimate means of deterrence and coercion. Once used as a decisive weapon to defeat Japan and end World War II, their massively destructive nature led to the emergence of a global taboo against using these weapons ever again.
January 31, 2025
North Korean troops pull back in Kursk as Pyongyang prepares fresh deployment, officials say
North Korean (DPRK) forces fighting in Russia’s Kursk region “have been pulled off the front lines after suffering heavy casualties,” though their absence may only be temporary, The New York...
January 31, 2025
US airstrike kills Al Qaeda operative in Syria
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it killed a senior leader of Hurras al Din, Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, in an airstrike in Syria on January 30. The strike, which took place less...
January 31, 2025
Will Egypt’s President Become Trump’s Least Favorite Dictator?
Hours after President Donald Trump revealed plans to ask Egypt to enable Palestinian refugees looking to escape the war to enter the Sinai Peninsula from Gaza, Cairo’s Foreign Ministry issued a...
January 31, 2025
Syria gets a new autocrat as Sharaa styles himself ‘president’
Forget the risk of Syria turning into an Islamist emirate. The country’s de facto ruler and former al-Qaeda operative Ahmad Sharaa on Wednesday proclaimed himself “transitional president,” with his X...
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