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August 3, 2016 Your World with Neil Cavuto Chairman of FDD's Leadership Council, Jim Woolsey, discusses Europe's growing refugee problem. ... August 3, 2016 Happening Now FDD's VP for Research Jonathan Schanzer discusses the Obama Administration's 400 million dollar settlement with Iran. ... August 2, 2016 Analysis: The rise of German academic BDS A German university seminar designed to teach that Israel harvests Palestinians&... August 1, 2016 The Pope’s War It’s not a religious war, according to His Holiness. Economic, yes. Political, sure. But not religious, because religious people want peace. That’s what he sai... July 29, 2016 Iran’s Breakout Time Drops Below Administration Benchmarks Iran plans to manufacture and install additional advanced centrifuges at its Natanz facility in about 10 years, substantially boosting the country’s uranium-enrichment capability, according... July 29, 2016 One year on, the Iran deal is still bad A decade of nuclear negotiations with Iran were meant to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, force Iran to reveal its past clandestine activities and impose permanent restrictions on... July 28, 2016 Behind the Veneer of Cross-Party Unity, Erdogan Cements Power All three of Turkey’s main opposition parties opposed the coup attempt on July 15, and the government has taken pains to show its gratitude. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has... July 27, 2016 The problem with globalism “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” That line from Donald Trump’s long and emphatic speech to the Republican National Convention last Thursday jumped out at me. I t... July 27, 2016 Terrorists in our backyard: the Hezbollah threat in Latin America In Latin America, the combination of weak governments, porous borders, widespread corruption, and the lack of adequate legislative tools to combat terror finance creates an ideal environment for... July 27, 2016 The Myth of Lone-Wolf Terrorism Co-written with Nathaniel Barr This month, Europe has again been rocked by a series of shocking terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone individuals and claimed in the name of the... July 27, 2016 Dem VP Nominee, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge More Funding for Israel’s Missile Defense A bipartisan group of senators has signed a public letter urging the Senate Armed Services Committee to include an additional $320 million for Israeli missile defense systems in the 2017 National... July 27, 2016 Europe terror attacks spotlight security failings amid refugee crisis The European policy Germans call “Willkommenskultur” -- the enthusiastic embrace of refugees from Syria and other Muslim-majority countries -- has morphed into a summer of terror.... July 27, 2016 Turkey tries to trap Obama with extradition demand Is President Barack Obama willing to damage America’s relationship with a critical NATO ally over the fate of an elderly Muslim man living in the Poconos? Turkey is trying to find... July 26, 2016 Playing yesterday’s game: India’s real foreign policy challenges lie in its neighbourhood The South China Sea is several seas away from us. The NSG membership will happen some time after we (the people and the government) have stopped hyperventilating about it. Instea... July 26, 2016 How Erdogan’s mass appeal saved him on coup night More than his security forces, what saved Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the night of the coup attempt was the extraordinary devotion the charismatic strongman inspires among hi... July 26, 2016 Who is Fetullah Gulen Debate is raging in Turkey over what role, if any, self-exiled Islamic cleric Fetullah Gulen and his throngs of supporters in government jobs played in last week’s abortive coup. But one ma... July 26, 2016 Netanyahu: “We Have Beaten” Boycott Campaign Israel has defeated the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed at a Knesset hearing on Monday. Under questioning from... July 26, 2016 Who’s Hillary’s Hacker And Why? The Twitter crowd has devoted a lot of bandwith to the theory that the Wikileaks dump on the DNC is a Russian operation. They may well be right, although I wouldn’t take Joshua Micah... July 25, 2016 Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare? The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t... July 25, 2016 Report: Next War with Hezbollah Could Cause “Thousands of Civilian Deaths” in Israel Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a ... July 25, 2016 Will Iran wordsmith its way off our terrorism list? It certainly is trying Iran is on a diplomatic offensive to persuade global illicit finance regulators to accept that Hezbollah is not a terrorist group. It may be just a matter of time before the international body in... July 25, 2016 Should Canada reopen its embassy in Iran? One year ago this month, Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement on the si... July 22, 2016 FDD Study Highlights the Iran Nuclear Deal as A New Factor in Israel’s Hezbollah Military Calculus The next war between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah will be more destructive than previous conflicts, thanks to a massive Hezbollah arms build-up that includes a 150,000-rocket... July 22, 2016 Where U.S. Sees Crisis in Turkey, Iran Sees Opportunity Iran was the first government to fully back Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during Friday&rsqu... July 22, 2016 Syria just got worse than the ‘worst-case scenario’ While the Republican National Convention was dominating headlines, the Obama administration’s management of the Syria crisis went from bad to worse. Secretary of State John Kerry l... July 22, 2016 Reclaiming of Istanbul’s Taksim Square by Erdogan Supporters Sparks Trepidation in Some Quarters In the week since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Turks to occupy the streets and thwart an attempted coup, Istanbul’s Taksim Square has transformed from a scene of military occupation... July 22, 2016 Iran Deploys Hezbollah-Trained Afghan Sniper Brigade in Syria An Israeli intelligence source confirmed Monday that a new unit of Afghan snipers trained by Lebanese-based Hezbollah and financed by Iran is now operating beyond its northern border on behalf of... July 22, 2016 Despite Coup Failure, Turkish Democracy Still at Risk The Cipher Brief: It’s been about a week since the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erodgan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led g... July 22, 2016 By blocking UN vote, Egypt sticks finger in Turkey’s eye Egypt blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution this past Saturday that... July 22, 2016 America’s News HQ FDD's President Clifford May discusses the attack at a shopping center in Munich. Watch the latest video at... July 21, 2016 State of Emergency Risks Undercutting Turkey’s Fragile Democracy Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month-long nationwide state of emer... July 21, 2016 Turkey’s Strongman Will Exploit The Failed Coup Turkey may have thwarted a military coup d’etat on Friday night, but the result will almost certainly be the precipitous decline of Turkey’s democracy... July 21, 2016 U.S.-Backed ‘Moderate’ Rebels Behead a Child Near Aleppo Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video. The footage surfaced early Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a... July 21, 2016 How Iran Ruined Nuclear Deals for Everyone Last summer’s Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,... July 21, 2016 Obama Administration Imposes Sanctions on Iran-Based Al-Qaeda Members After Denying Cooperation The Obama administration has sanctioned three senior al-Qaeda members operating in Iran just weeks after dismissing reports of cooperation between the global terror organization and the Islamic R... July 21, 2016 Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an I... July 21, 2016 Turkish government seeks self-exiled cleric living in Poconos A Pittsburgh restaurateur found out first-hand earlier this year how powerful the influence of a Poconos-dwelling Turkish cleric is — and how deep the Turkish government's antipathy fo... July 21, 2016 Despite detente, Erdogan may find Israel too good a scapegoat to resist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to start blaming Israel for the attempted coup that threatened to depose him over the weekend, due to a perceived connection between the Jewish st... July 21, 2016 Treasury designates 3 senior al Qaeda members in Iran The Treasury Department announced today that three senior al Qaeda members have been added to the US... July 20, 2016 Iran’s Latest Test Shows It Is Doubling Down on Ballistic Missiles Iran reportedly tried to test yet another ballistic missile last week &... July 20, 2016 Bloody Ramadan: How The Islamic State Coordinated A Global Terrorist Campaign In late May 2016, the Islamic State (ISIL) ... July 20, 2016 The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynam... July 20, 2016 German left-wing radicals say Jews have ‘too much influence’ A study released last week in Berlin showed widespread anti-Semitism among left-wing Germans. According to the academic survey conducted by the Free University of Berlin, 34 percent of t... July 20, 2016 Happening Now FDD VP for Research Jonathan Schanzer discusses the ISIS train attack in Germany. ... July 19, 2016 Hamas Vows to Join Municipal Elections, but Obstacles Remain Hamas announced last week that it would participate in municipal elections across the West Bank and Gaza in October. It is a surprisin... July 19, 2016 Bloomberg Markets FDD senior fellow Aykan Erdemir discusses Turkey's political tensions. ... July 19, 2016 Defusing the Iran Deal’s Ticking Time Bomb As it was in the beginning, so it remains one year on: The overriding danger of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal, is its provisions for automatically lifting the m... July 19, 2016 The Fight Against ISIS Will Suffer Because of Turkey’s Coup The failed coup in Turkey will set back global efforts to combat the Islamic State. For one, trust between Ankara and Washington is at an all-time low. A Turkish minister ... July 19, 2016 Bloomberg Jamil Jaffer, former senior adviser to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, react to the Turkish co... July 19, 2016 Notes on a Failed Coup For your consideration, several observations regarding Turkey’s failed coup: By any measure, the incompetence of the coup plotters was simply flabbergasting. They...

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