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September 29, 2022 The Women Burning Their Hijabs Want the Iranian Regime to Fall. Does Joe Biden? By now you have seen the indelible images from the streets of dozens of cities and towns across the Islamic Republic of Iran. They have found a way out, despite the fact that the regime has been routinely... September 28, 2022 Trusting Iran Compromises Our National Security Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton. In the alleged murder-for-hire... September 28, 2022 Moscow Cozies Up With Hamas to Pressure Israel A delegation from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, led by Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, made a multi-day visit to Moscow this month for meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as... September 28, 2022 A Different Kind of Russian Threat – Seeking to Install Its Candidate Atop Telecommunications Standards Body For the billions of digital devices that people the world over use each day, technical standards provide rules that ensure a device produced in one country can run software developed in a second country,... September 28, 2022 American Semiconductor Leadership Suffers from Bad Defense, No Offense “America invented the semiconductor,” declared President Joe Biden upon signing the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a $280 billion bill intended to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor industry,... September 28, 2022 3001 Arabian nights RIYADH – The last time I visited Saudi Arabia was February of 2017. Changes were occurring. “Baby steps,” as one savvy young Saudi woman told me, adding: “There is at least an acknowledgement that... September 27, 2022 Shabaab continues to lose ground in central Somalia Over the last few weeks, troops from the Somali National Army (SNA), backed by clan-based militias, African Union forces, and U.S. air support, have steadily made progress against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s... September 26, 2022 American Innovation Can Counter China’s BRI China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was launched in 2013 as a trillion-dollar mega strategy to build infrastructure and influence across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. The... September 26, 2022 Time to Expose Putin as an Unreliable Ally Fresh hostilities broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region last week. As a result, nearly 100 people have been killed in the busiest week of violence in the region since 2020.... September 25, 2022 North Korea’s Missile Tests Are Part Of A Political Warfare And Blackmail Strategy North Korea has done it again, which is no surprise. While the ROK/U.S. alliance and the international community has been waiting for a seventh nuclear test or a possible test of a submarine-launched... September 23, 2022 Hamas Operatives in Gaza Continue to Direct Attacks in the West Bank The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on Friday that they arrested a terrorist cell in the West Bank operating under the guidance of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The... September 23, 2022 The US should help Russian mothers get the truth out about Putin’s war Russians are taking to the streets in protest at President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization of military reservists. While demonstrators from all backgrounds have participated, it is Russian women... September 23, 2022 Biden’s Iran Policy After the Protests Few world leaders gathered this week for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) appeared as isolated as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. As he delivered predictable anti-American attacks from the... September 22, 2022 In an About-Face, Russia Announces Mobilization and ‘Referendums’ in Occupied Ukrainian Territories In a televised address on Wednesday morning, President Vladimir Putin promised to ensure the security of upcoming “referendums” in occupied Ukrainian territories and declared Russia would conduct... September 22, 2022 Lifting the arms embargo on Cyprus is a major opportunity to aid Ukraine The Biden administration announced on Friday a decision to lift the decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus for the coming fiscal year. This laudable step recognizes Nicosia’s progress related to financial... September 21, 2022 U.S. airstrike kills 27 Shabaab fighters in central Somalia The U.S. military killed 27 members of Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, in an airstrike in support of a Somali military and African Union offensive in central Somalia. Since June 3, the US has... September 20, 2022 Hezbollah smuggling weapons to the West Bank amid surge in militant activity Amid a major uptick in militant activity in the West Bank, FDD’s Long War Journal has confirmed with a senior Israeli military official that Hezbollah has been smuggling weapons into the West Bank. The... September 19, 2022 Arrest of Militants Signals Hamas’ Involvement in Uptick of West Bank Violence The Israel Security Agency (ISA) announced Monday the arrest of seven Hamas operatives suspected of planning attacks against Israeli citizens in the West Bank. During the ISA’s investigation, it was... September 19, 2022 U.S. frees Taliban narcotics kingpin in exchange for Navy veteran The Taliban released Mark Frerichs, an American veteran who had been held hostage since early 2020, in exchange for Haji Bashir Noorzai, a convicted Taliban drug kingpin who was serving a life sentence... September 19, 2022 Iranian-backed attacks on Albania highlights need for Cyber Capacity Building Albania, a NATO member state, cut diplomatic ties with Iran earlier this month after blaming Tehran for a cyberattack against Albanian government networks. It is an unprecedented response to a cyberattack... September 17, 2022 Islamic State claims first attacks inside Benin Through its weekly Al-Naba newsletter earlier this week, the Islamic State officially claimed its first two operations inside Benin. The attacks now join the chorus of strikes committed inside the littoral... September 16, 2022 Ukraine’s Counteroffensives in Kharkiv and Kherson and the Road Ahead Ukraine’s stunning victory in Kharkiv Oblast has reshaped the battlefield and dealt a powerful blow to Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continue to wage a more gradual... September 16, 2022 A Newly Established Militant Organization in the West Bank Claims Several Attacks A nascent Palestinian militant organization called The Lion’s Den (TLD) has been established in the West Bank and have publish statements claiming shooting attacks against Israel Defense Forces (IDF)... September 15, 2022 Israel’s Defense Minister Reveals Syrian Military Sites Used to Produce Advanced Weapons for Iran At a Jerusalem Post conference in New York on Monday, Israel’s Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, revealed a map displaying Syrian arms manufacturing facilities used to produce advanced weapons for Tehran... September 15, 2022 Serbia’s Move to Cancel EuroPride Shows How Vučić Plays Off West Against Russia and His Base The Serbian government is moving to cancel a long-planned parade in Belgrade this Saturday as part of the annual pan-European EuroPride celebration, hosted in a different European city each year, after... September 14, 2022 Don’t Just Applaud Ukraine’s Counteroffensive. Time To Send More Weapons The Ukrainian counteroffensives around Kharkiv and Kherson have erased months of Moscow’s territorial gains and destroyed or captured large amounts of Russian military equipment, ammunition, and... September 14, 2022 Fascism for dummies Fascism seems to be all the rage these days. I’ll give you a few examples. Ben Rhodes, who was President Obama’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications (a title suggesting foreign... September 13, 2022 Gearing up for Huawei’s second act Excerpt Washington’s wielding of strategic export controls has seriously blunted Beijing’s technological ambitions, so much so that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei warned in a recently leaked memo that... September 13, 2022 Why Did Russia Change Its Tune on the Iran Nuclear Deal? In late August, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s chief nuclear negotiator in Vienna, urged the United States and Iran to “successfully overcome their last differences as soon as possible” in order to revive... September 13, 2022 Iran-Hezbollah Intelligence Center May Help Hamas Target Israel Excerpt In the wake of the May 2021 Gaza war between Israel and Hamas, reports in Israel suggested that Iran helped the terrorist group out of a Lebanon-based nerve center or joint operations room. Reports... September 12, 2022 Biden may be plotting to keep Congress out of the Iran nuclear deal Excerpt Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union have once again nearly concluded indirect talks over the “final text” of a nuclear deal. Like the 2015 deal formally known as... September 12, 2022 Contested area of northern Somalia witnesses rare suicide bombing At least five people were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing at a crowded cafe in the village of Milxo in the Sanaag Region, a contested area laid claim to by both Somalia and Somaliland. No group has... September 11, 2022 Anti-Israel boycotts masquerade as social justice Nineteen US states sent Morningstar, the financial services giant, a clear message last month: its attempts to sweep its anti-Israel bias under the rug are not fooling anyone. On August 17, Missouri Attorney... September 11, 2022 Mounting Evidence of the PA’s Security Services Clashing With IDF Troops in the West Bank Since last year, IDF troops have increasingly engaged in armed clashes with members of the Palestinian Authority Security Services (PSS) in the West Bank. In some cases, PSS members belonged to militant... September 9, 2022 Israel’s Role in the Second Armenia-Azerbaijan War and Its Implications for the Future Excerpt For a quarter of a century, Israel and Azerbaijan have maintained deep strategic cooperation that touches on national security issues of the highest importance to both sides. The defense relationship... September 9, 2022 Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report – September 2022 Excerpt Background This report summarizes and assesses information in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) quarterly safeguards report for September 7, 2022, Verification and monitoring in... September 9, 2022 On 9/11 Anniversary, End the Self-Delusion About America’s Enemies Excerpt Sunday marks the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States—planned and launched by al Qaeda from Afghanistan—that killed 2,977 innocent people. Much has changed since... September 9, 2022 How the US monkeypox response failed to learn COVID’s lessons Excerpt The Biden administration’s failed response to the spread of monkeypox has highlighted America’s inability to respond to large-scale disease outbreaks. These problems are bipartisan and were... September 8, 2022 The IAEA’s Iran NPT Safeguards Report – September 2022 Excerpt Background Iran has consistently violated its obligations under its comprehensive safeguards agreement (CSA), a key part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to cooperate with the International... September 7, 2022 America’s Regional Integration Scheme Benefits Iran Barack Obama’s realignment doctrine in the Middle East was predicated on recognizing what he dubbed Iranian “equities” and buttressing them supposedly so as to create strategic parity or “balance”... September 7, 2022 How North Korea Taught Iran to Entrap and Threaten Israel As its technology has advanced, Tehran has armed its proxies on Israel’s borders with precision-guided missiles, saturation-fire rockets, and explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicles. The ultimate,... September 7, 2022 How Beijing Benefits From a New Iran Deal Excerpt Supporters of a new Iran deal claim it will put Tehran’s atomic program “in a box” so that Washington and its allies can finally focus on countering Beijing’s increasing belligerence in... September 7, 2022 Waging Psychological War Against Russia The fight for Ukraine will not just be won on the battlefield. For all the high-tech weaponry the West has delivered, psychological war against Russia remains a key opportunity for the United States. Historically,... September 7, 2022 Are al Qaeda and Iran really at odds? A photo, first posted on an anonymous Twitter account, circulated last week among terrorism watchers here in Washington. It received scant attention in the mainstream media. The now authenticated photo,... September 6, 2022 Deal or No Deal, Israel Must Restore a Credible Military Threat The Iranian regime and the US are exchanging drafts of what is being described again as a “take it or leave it, last chance [nuclear] deal.” Both sides will not admit publicly to having compromised,... September 6, 2022 Washington must act to build capable federal cybersecurity workforce With the U.S. facing a reported cybersecurity personnel shortage of at least 700,000 workers, the White House’s July workforce summit set the appropriately ambitious goal of filling those vacancies. The... September 4, 2022 Hamas Tells Media to Lie: What Should the Media Tell its Readers? In a stunning expose’, a recent Associated Press article revealed a Hamas directive to journalists not to report on Gazans killed by Palestinian rockets that misfired and killed local families rather... September 3, 2022 Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran The Biden administration is stumped by Iran. Upon inauguration, President Joe Biden and the best and the brightest of the Democratic Party assumed that reviving the Iran nuclear deal would be simple. In... September 2, 2022 Rare photo surfaces of top Al Qaeda leaders inside Iran A recently surfaced photograph of three of Al Qaeda’s top leaders, including Saif al Adel – the man many believe to be the successor to emir Ayman al Zawahiri – shows that they were present in the... September 2, 2022 A Three Part Plan To Enhance President Yoon’s North Korea Strategy: Toward A Free And Unified Korea On August 15th, in his Liberation Day speech, President Yoon described his “audacious initiative” for North Korea. In summary, it is an economic engagement proposal that is intended to be a first step...

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