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July 19, 2016 Turkey needs a new social contract A decade ago, Turkey was hailed as a success story due to its booming economy, proactive foreign policy and progress toward EU membership. Today the country is making headlines for different reas... July 19, 2016 Dana FDD Senior Counselor John Hannah discusses the recent coup in Turkey. ... July 19, 2016 America’s News HQ FDD senior fellow Aykan Erdemir discusses the future of Turkish democracy under Erdogan following the recent coup attempt. ... July 19, 2016 The O’Reilly Factor FDD VP for Research Jonathan Schanzer discusses the military's attempted coup in Turkey and how it will impact regional stability. ... July 18, 2016 Turkey’s Post-Coup Purges by the Numbers Co-written by Yagmur Menzilcioglu A faction of the Turkish military attempted a coup d’état on Friday. Lacking support of the bulk of the armed forces, police, and... July 18, 2016 Flying Above the Radar Download the full report here... July 18, 2016 The Third Lebanon War Dowload the full report here... July 18, 2016 What Netanyahu should ask Paraguay’s president Israel needs all the friends it can get to fight delegitimization in international forums. Paraguay is one of them – thanks to the leadership of its president, Horacio Cartes, who today beg... July 18, 2016 Obama Can’t Let Iran Get Away With Murder The Obama administration has long said it will hold Iran accountable for acts of terrorism. It now has a chance to prove it: Interpol red notices for five former Iranian officials found culpable in... July 18, 2016 The Obama Administration Gambled On Tehran’s Moderation — And Failed A year ago, the Obama administration made a gamble, striking a nuclear accord with Tehran that it hoped would transform its behavior, leading to a thaw in bilateral relations and a more stable Mi... July 15, 2016 Iran Deal Cannot Whitewash Regime’s Deplorable Human Rights Record As we mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) this week, the Iranian regime continues to repress its p... July 15, 2016 The Chilcot Report The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri... July 15, 2016 Happening Now FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses the recent terror attack in Nice. ... July 14, 2016 Iran Ready to Walk Away from Nuclear Deal with Its Own ‘Nuclear Snapback,’ New Study Finds Iran has effectively neutralized America’s economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s non-nuclear malign activity by threatening to walk away from the Joint Comprehensive Plan... July 14, 2016 The Iran Nuclear Agreement: One Year Later Download the full written testimony here... July 14, 2016 The Iran Deal’s Fatal Flaws After One Year: Emboldened Iran and Diminished American Deterrence Download the full report here... July 14, 2016 Can’t Have It Both Ways in Iran As the U.S. campaign season wears on, both Republicans and Democrats are pledging to stay tough on Iran. Such promises aren’t new. Last summer, as the Barack Obama administration unveiled i... July 14, 2016 German government agency involved in violation of Iran sanctions Co-written by Bjorn Stritzel A German government quality control agency and a private certification agency that works with it both violated EU sanctions and the federal agency&r... July 13, 2016 Turkey’s Illicit Finance Trap Co-written by Yagmur Menzilcioglu While not widely reported in the West, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım last month submitted to parliament a... July 13, 2016 The Boeing Sale to Iran Runs Into Turbulence No wonder the House moved last week to try to block Boeing’s tentative agreement to sell 80 passenger jets to Iran’s government-owned airline, Iran Air. Congress is rightly concerned... July 13, 2016 Obama’s Iran experiment A hypothetical question: Suppose the Islamic State wanted to buy some American airplanes, and promised not to use them to support terrorists. Would you be OK with that? I’m guessing not.... July 13, 2016 How to Make America Win Again We must wage an ideological war What does “winning” mean and how do we accomplish this against radical Islamists and their allies? It me... July 13, 2016 Top Intel Official: Al Qaeda Worked on WMD in Iran Al Qaeda operatives based in Iran worked on chemical and biological weapons, according to a letter written to Osama bin Laden that is described in a new book by a top former U.S. intelligence off... July 12, 2016 Pakistan: Friend or Foe in the Fight against Terrorism? Download the full testimony here... July 12, 2016 Why Are These IRGC Figures Not Sanctioned? The White House promised Congress last summer that the Iran nuclear accord would not prevent the United States from imposing additional non-nuclear sanctions. Yet Ambassador Stephen Mull, the adm... July 11, 2016 FDD’s Military Edge Project Expands Its Online Database to Track North Korea’s Conventional Arms The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today expanded its free web-based tool designed to track foreign military capabilities... July 11, 2016 Taxing American Businesses that Partner with Iran American businesses have been looking to break into the Iranian market ever since the signing of last summer’s nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Major firms... July 11, 2016 The Creeping Pakistanization of Turkey? The ISIS attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport hit Turkey at a difficult, yet hopeful time. The bombing came in the immediate aftermath of the Turkish government’s diplomatic U-tu... July 11, 2016 Iran sought chemical and biological weapons in 2015, says German intel Iran aggressively pursued biological and chemical weapons technology even as it negotiated an international deal to drop its nuclear program, according to a German intelligence report that follow... July 8, 2016 Post-JCPOA, Iran Revs Up Nuclear, Missile Procurement in Germany On the eve of the Iran deal’s one-year anniversary, a new report by... July 8, 2016 Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ... July 7, 2016 The Implications of U.S. Aircraft Sales to Iran Chairman Huizenga, Vice Chairman Mulvaney, Ranking Member Moore, and distinguished members of the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade, I am honored to appea... July 7, 2016 Germany’s Merkel says Iran violating UN missile regulations German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated on Thursday that Iran has run afoul of UN Security Council regulations to stop its illicit military rocket program. Her comments follow a startling report f... July 7, 2016 German intel report charges Iran seeking illegal nuke, missile tech With the ink barely dry on the deal between the U.S. and Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from securing nuclear weapons, a new German intelligence document charges that Iran continues to flou... July 7, 2016 Happening Now FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses the terror attacks in Iraq and Bangladesh. ... July 7, 2016 Foreign Affairs Podcast FDD research fellow Grant Rumley discusses the changing dynamics of Israel's relationship with its MIddle East neighbors. ... July 7, 2016 International Edition FDD VP for Research Jonathan Schanzer discusses the increasing number if Islamic State attacks across the globe. Jon's interview begins at 10:00. ... July 6, 2016 The Implications of U.S. Aircraft Sales to Iran Executive Summary As we approach the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), many of the concerns of tho... July 6, 2016 GOP foreign policy elites flock to Clinton Two weeks before he hopes to consolidate his party at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump is driving Republican foreign policy elites into the arms of Hillary Clinton, as several... July 6, 2016 The Battle of Bangladesh Over the past ten months, there have been more than 30 terrorist attacks in Bangladesh. In recent days, an Italian aid worker was gunned down as he went for a jog. Also shot to death was a Cathol... July 6, 2016 Iran Stirs Up More Trouble in the Gulf Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ external operations wing the Quds Force, ... July 5, 2016 Attacks Highlight Terrorists’ Goals in Saudi Arabia, but Also Limits Suicide bombers struck three Saudi cities on Monday, detonating themselves near the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, a U.S. diplomatic facility in Jeddah, and a Shiite mosque in the eastern city... July 5, 2016 Our Next Man (Or Woman) In Tehran Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion recently confirmed that preliminary official contact between Iran and Canada has begun, toward the goal of restoring diplomatic relations between the... July 5, 2016 Why Bibi’s Visits to Moscow Mean Bad News for Israel Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Russia for yet another meeting with president Vladimir Putin—his third such trip (and fourth meeti... July 5, 2016 Germany harbors 300 Hamas, 950 Hezbollah members and activists Some 300 Hamas members and supporters – as well as 950 Hezbollah activists and members – are operating in Germany, the country’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual... July 5, 2016 Analysis: Attacks show radicals retain foothold in Saudi Arabia A wave of suicide attacks Monday in Saudi Arabia, especially one near the burial site of the prophet Mohammed, shows that radicals are increasingly challenging the Al Saud royal family and its ro... July 5, 2016 Al-Qaida Leader Threatens To Attack America If Boston Bomber Is Executed Aging al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri threatened the “gravest consequences” for America if the Boston Marathon bomber is executed. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, is sentenced to de... July 5, 2016 America’s News HQ Mark Dubowitz on the recent terror attacks, Islamist ideology, and playing defense through offense. ... July 5, 2016 The John Batchelor Show FDD senior fellows Aykan Erdemir and Jonathan Schanzer joined the John Batchelor show to comment on the Istanbul airport attack and the Iran-Boeing deal. ... July 1, 2016 Uranium Particles at Parchin Indicate Possible Undeclared Iranian Nuclear Activities On December 2, 2015, the IAEA issued its assessment on past and present outstanding...

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