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April 21, 2016 Report: Obama Seeks Meeting With Iranian President President Barack Obama has sent two letters to senior Iranian leaders in recent months requesting a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, according to Persian language reports recently t... April 21, 2016 Is al-Qaeda Back in Afghanistan? Al-Qaeda is ostensibly the reason the United States got involved militarily in Afghanistan more than a decade ago. But as the war in Afghanistan progressed, al-Qaeda receded as a target and seemi... April 21, 2016 Islamic State Committing ‘Cultural Genocide’ by Selling Priceless Antiques to Westerners Expert witnesses, while testifying before a House panel about the unprecedented level of looting and destruction of priceless antiques by jihadist groups across the Middle East, identified collec... April 21, 2016 Despite Coalition Military Gains, No End in Sight in Anti-IS Campaign The Kurdish Peshmerga commander sat on a couch at his headquarters in Sulaymaniyah. On a nearby table there was a bowl of dried fruit and nuts. Two large sniper rifles lay on the floor by his des... April 21, 2016 Special Report with Bret Baier FDD Executive Director, Mark Dubowitz, joined Special Report with Bret Baier to talk about the recent Supreme Court Ruling on Bank Markazi v. Petersen, with which it upheld its decision to force... April 21, 2016 IS Terror Group Raises Millions from Plundered Relics The Islamic State (IS) may have raised as much as $100 million by digging up and selling priceless antiquities from territory it controls, according to experts consulted by a U.S. congr... April 20, 2016 Statement by Mark Dubowitz on today’s Supreme Court ruling on Bank Markazi vs. Peterson Washington, DC -- This ruling is a victory for American victims of Iranian terrorism, and a strike against the Iranian regime that has long been a state sponsor of terrorism. Hopefully there will... April 20, 2016 Testimony of Sheryl Saperia on Bill C-6 Good morning, distinguished members of the committee. On behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank focused on national security and foreign policy, thank you for inviting... April 20, 2016 Saudi Clerics’ Rhetoric — and Implications for Global Security President Barack Obama’s meeting Wednesday with King Salman of Saudi Arabia... April 20, 2016 A spy’s story After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionag... April 20, 2016 Why is President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia important now? US President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week for meetings with King Salman and other leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council appears first and foremost to be about reassuranc... April 20, 2016 Peshmerga troops running on empty in fight against ISIS Kurdish Peshmerga forces – arguably the most effective ground troops battling the Islamic State terror group in Iraq – have been fighting for the past three months without a paycheck,... April 20, 2016 Backlash grows over Obama’s Iran concession The Obama administration’s hint that it was considering allowing Iran to access directly or indirectly U.S. dollars drew furious, negative reaction from both sides of the aisle. On Monday,... April 20, 2016 Amid rumors, White House rules out giving Iran access to US dollar The Obama administration will continue to block Iran’s access to the dollar or the U.S. financial system, its top sanctions official said amid speculation to the contrary. ...... April 20, 2016 Victims of Terror Can Seize Iranian Money, Supreme Court Rules Victims of terrorist attacks that were backed by Iran, and members of their families, can collect nearly $2 billion in Iranian money held by a bank in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wedne... April 20, 2016 Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire As has been obvious since his time as the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Javad Zarif is capable of creating a distortion field around him that often r... April 20, 2016 German Bank defends neo-Nazi party and BDS bank accounts The BW Bank in the German city of Stuttgart stood by its business accounts with a neo-Nazi party and a Palestinian group that seeks the destruction of Israel. “The [neo-Nazi party]... April 19, 2016 Israel Imperiled Read and watch congressional testimony here... April 19, 2016 Preventing Cultural Genocide: Countering the Plunder and Sale of Priceless Cultural Antiquities Download the full testimony here... April 19, 2016 Why Lebanon Could Be the Next Middle East Hot Spot Saudi Arabia has made a gamble in its regional proxy war with longtime foe Iran by retreating from Lebanon, an arena where the two have long competed for influence. It may be a risky bet... April 19, 2016 Who killed more terrorists, Obama or Bush? It depends Some critics of President Barack Obama take issue with what they see as a cold-hearted attitude toward the threat of terrorism. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace brought up this criticism in an... April 19, 2016 GOP foreign policy elites don’t know whether they’ll serve if Trump is president When the Republican foreign policy elite gets together these days, conversation quickly veers from challenges such as the Islamic State or North Korea to focus on two questions. How has Donald Tr... April 19, 2016 Distinguished person of the week There is a great deal of silliness and downright fabrication about foreign policy taking place in both parties’ presidential primaries. Neither side is being forthright about the extent of... April 19, 2016 The Sunni-Shi’ite Proxy War Heats Up Beneath the recent ferment of a highly volatile Middle East lies the region’s deepest geopolitical fault line: the decades-long rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This modern-day contes... April 19, 2016 Turkey: An Unreliable Ally? As Turkey continues to face a deteriorating security environment, The Cipher Brief sat down with Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish parliament and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation... April 18, 2016 Obama Administration Urges States to Lift Sanctions on Iran After lifting international and federal sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program, the Barack Obama administration is turning its attention to state governments. On April 8, the S... April 18, 2016 Top Iranian Banker Threatens End of Nuke Deal if U.S. Doesn’t Make Concessions The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will &ldqu... April 18, 2016 A Clinton Iran approach Republicans could support Hillary Clinton, who is in the course of a fierce struggle for the affection of the Democratic base, is not about to disown the JCPOA, President Obama’s signature second-term accomplishment... April 18, 2016 Analysis: Tear down Iran’s anti-democracy wall Is there anything to say about bringing about a democratic political and social order in Iran? A lively panel titled “Anti-democratic Regimes: Confrontation or Coexistence?” at the Fo... April 18, 2016 In Race to Capture Syria’s Raqqa, Assad May Have Edge Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria has shrunk by nearly a quarter in the past few months, but Kurds, Syrian rebels and forces loyal to embattled President Bashar al-Assad have all grabbe... April 18, 2016 Iranian boots on the ground The first deployment of foreign regular army ground troops to the front lines of the five-year-long battle between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came with rather le... April 15, 2016 Iran’s Center for Illicit Finance Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif is in Washington this week to attend summits at the... April 15, 2016 The Morning Risk Report: Szubin’s Iran Deal Defense, Guidance A top U.S. Treasury Department official on Wednesday defended the Iran nuclear agreement before an audience that has been hostile to it, telling the Foundation for Defense of Democracies... April 15, 2016 Erdogan Sees Evil in `Lord of the Rings’ Where Others See Good Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s lawyers are about to come face to face with “The Lord of the Rings.” Six months ago, family doctor Bilgin Ciftci lost h... April 15, 2016 Erdogan Sees Evil in `Lord of the Rings’ Where Others See Good Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s lawyers are about to come face to face with “The Lord of the Rings.” Six months ago, family doctor Bilgin Ciftci lost his job f... April 15, 2016 ‘Relax, they are our friends’: One quote shows why Turkey’s ISIS problem is only going to get worse In a recent interview with The Guardian, a former ISIS fighter described how easy it was for him to cross Turkey's notoriously porous border into Syria to join the Islamic State. Ab... April 15, 2016 Justice for Alberto Nisman and the AMIA Jewish center victims inches closer The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of... April 15, 2016 After Abbas, Le Déluge in the Palestinian Authority Palestinian leaders in the West Bank refer to the wave of terror currently gripping Israel as a haba sha'abiya, or a "popular outburst." The imagery suggests that the terror wave is widespre... April 14, 2016 Can America change course? As you watch the circus that is the 2016 presidential campaign, which candidate strikes you as having a coherent vision of national security for the post-Obama era? Who has told you what he (or s... April 14, 2016 Egypt hands strategic Red Sea islands to Saudis, and Israel doesn’t object Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement Saturday for Cairo to return control of two uninhabited but strategic Red Sea islands to the kingdom. The islands — Tiran and Sanafir — lie... April 14, 2016 ISIS Expands Reach Despite Military and Financial Setbacks American airstrikes have killed 25,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria and incinerated millions of dollars plundered by the militants, according to Pentagon officials. Iraqi and... April 14, 2016 Experts say Russia will likely get away with buzzing U.S. destroyer Russia's dangerously close flight maneuvers against a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea this week violate a deal signed in 1972, but analysts say there's not much the U.S. can do to... April 14, 2016 Media miss emergence of new Iranian-funded Palestinian terror group A new Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group has emerged—and by appearances, it may be expanding. In less than two years, Harakat as-Sabeeren Nasran il-Filastin (The Movement for the Pa... April 14, 2016 Turkey Must Tackle Its Anti-Semitism Problem If It Wishes to Reconcile with Israel Ankara has been making efforts at repairing its relationship with Jerusalem, and simultaneously at displaying a more benevolent attitude toward Turkish Jewry. In one example, President Recep... April 14, 2016 Odierno: 50,000 Troops Needed To Defeat the Islamic State It will take around 50,000 troops to destroy the Islamic State, according to the Army’s recently retired chief, but they don’t necessarily all have to be American. Th... April 14, 2016 US Senator: Investigate German bank for anti-Semitic BDS support A leading US Senator called on Wednesday for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, because of possible violations of the Illinois State anti-BDS law that seeks t... April 14, 2016 Sanctions Experts: Granting Iran Access to Dollars Endangers Global Banking System Giving Iran access to U.S. dollars in order to boost its international business profile would erode diplomatic leverage against the Islamic Republic and jeopardize the international banking syste... April 14, 2016 Analysis: Saudi-Egypt deals part of Gulf effort to unite Sunnis against Iran Recently signed agreements between Saudi Arabia and Egypt appear to be part of a broader Saudi effort to build a regional Sunni alliance against Iran, yet the results of such an alliance are stil... April 14, 2016 A Dire Situation in Iraq With Iraq’s political crisis worsening as chaos erupted in parliament on Wednesday over Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi plan to reshuffle his cabinet and combat corruption, The Cipher Br... April 14, 2016 U.S. Frowns on New Iran Sanctions by Congress After Missile Test A top Treasury Department official argued against imposing new legislative sanctions on Iran after its ballistic missile tests last month, even as he said the Islamic Republic would remain blocke...

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