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June 10, 2015 The Rhyme and Reason of Jihad You probably didn’t know it but Osama bin Laden was a poet. In fact, according to Yale’s Robyn Creswell and Princeton’s Bernard Haykel, “of all jihadi poets, bin Laden was... June 10, 2015 Tehran’s Siamese Twins “[I]n the next few days, the world will be surprised by what we and the Syrian military leadership are currently preparing,” Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary G... June 9, 2015 Former Turkish Parliamentarian Joins FDD as Non-Resident Fellow WASHINGTON — Dr. Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish Parliament from 2011 to 2015, has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident fellow. Based in An... June 9, 2015 Turkey After the Elections In Turkey’s election on Sunday, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years, and will be unable to form the next government... June 9, 2015 To Beat China’s Cyberattacks, America Needs to Fight Back On All Fronts Last week’s revelation that the personal records of 4 million current and former federal workers was accessed by a massive hack traced to China was a wake-up call we shouldn’t have ne... June 8, 2015 The FIFA Farce and the Palestinians FIFA, the world’s soccer governing body, has fallen on hard times. Last week U.S. authorities filed a sweeping 47-count indictment against 14 FIFA-linked officials over what they called &ld... June 8, 2015 Who is IS? Who are they anyway? IS, the Islamic State, that is. There are two big components: religious fanatics and totalitarian leaders. The secret of IS’ success lies in combin... June 8, 2015 Swiss MPs: Funding for Breaking the Silence a ‘Scandal and Misuse of Tax Money’ The opening of the Breaking the Silence exhibit in Zurich on Thursday unleashed a firestorm of criticism from Swiss politicians who say the country’s Foreign Ministry misused public funds t... June 8, 2015 Tiananmen and China’s Long March In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe... June 5, 2015 Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at... June 5, 2015 Next Up: Nuclear Talks With North Korea? Beyond the sound and fury of the Iran nuclear talks lies a big follow-up question: What, if anything, does President Obama propose to do during his final stretch in office about the growing nucle... June 5, 2015 The Saudi Military Is Mobilizing. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The Saudis "will definitely be defeated," crows one Iranian general. Riyad... June 5, 2015 Turkey and Iran: The Best of Frenemies TURKEY AND IRAN: THE BEST OF FRENEMIES Inheriting a legacy of imperial competition, the T... June 4, 2015 Sanctions Relief and the IRGC OPEC “needs to open space” for the increased Iranian exports that could soon flow due to sanctions relief, Tehran’s oil minister... June 4, 2015 ‘German Magazine Manufactured Diplomatic Crisis with Israel’ Israel’s embassy in Berlin and the Foreign Ministry vehemently denied a German Der Spiegel article alleging that Israel’s air traffic authority denied German Foreign Minister Frank-Wa... June 3, 2015 Slow Release Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes After four years of fierce internecine battles and inexplicable delays, the intelligence community last week started the process of releasin... June 3, 2015 Iran’s Losses Mount in the Syrian Quagmire “We must possess Syria. If the chain from Lebanon to here [Tehran] is cut, bad things will happen,” former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a December 24, 2... June 3, 2015 Troubled Waters “Creating facts on the ground” means changing reality through actions rather than diplomacy. China’s rulers have gone further: Over the last 18 months they have been creating gr... June 3, 2015 Making Sense of Iranian S-300s Iran has a long history of ... June 3, 2015 Ankara Alone Too Islamist-friendly for NATO, too pro-European for Russia, too pro-Sunni for Iran, and too pro-democracy for Saudi Arabia, Turkey can’t seem to manage lasting alliances. It’s an iss... June 2, 2015 One Year Later, A Unity Government without Palestinian Unity The political reconciliation struck between the two dominant Palestinian factions on the eve of last summer’s 50-day war turns a year old on Tuesday. Then, as now, reconciliation between Fa... June 2, 2015 2015 Turkish Parliamentary Elections Download Full Guide He... June 2, 2015 Turkish Medium-Term Economic Scenarios: The Costs of Policy Stasis Download Full Report Here ... June 2, 2015 Obama Will Even Defend Anti-Semitism to Spin His Iran Deal It’s not every day that you hear President Barack Obama explain away rank bigotry. But in a recent ... June 2, 2015 When the U.S. Will Intervene in the Gulf, and Other Notes From the Camp David Summit I've held a number of discussions with people who have direct knowledge of the conversations that took place at this month’s Camp David Summit between President Obama and leaders from... June 2, 2015 Will Europe be Pushed to Fully Ban Hezbollah? The arrest of an alleged Hezbollah operative ... June 1, 2015 Sunni Tribes Need Arms and Support to Fight ISIS While American officials point their fingers at the Iraqi military’s shortcomings, the Islamic State’s recent conquest of Ramadi is a U.S. policy failure. The United States still has... May 29, 2015 Transformational Diplomacy Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent... May 28, 2015 German Party Lifts Requirement for Muslim Students to Visit Concentration Camps The governing Christian Social Union party in Bavaria’s state government sparked a row over excluding Muslim students and other immigrant pupils from visiting concentration camps as part of... May 28, 2015 German Jews in Frankfurt Reject Religious Panel for Hatred of Israel The Jewish community of Frankfurt rejected a re-affiliation with the Council of Religions in the city because of anti-Israel comments from the group’s Muslim members. “The co... May 27, 2015 The Longest Hatred Robert S. Wistrich, who died suddenly last week, was considered the foremost scholar of anti-Semitism, which he called “the longest hatred,” one that appears to be metastasizing in th... May 26, 2015 Defeating the Islamic State’s Suicide Drivers The Pentagon announced last week that it will deliver 2... May 26, 2015 ‘Political Piracy’: Iran’s Ship Seizures Aimed at Blocking Nuclear Deal The brief crisis over the Iranian seizure of the container ship Maersk Tigris in the Strait of Hormuz on April 28th appears to have ended peacefully with the vessel’s release on May 7t... May 26, 2015 Afghanistan: The Next Battlefield? “We will maintain a presence in Afghanistan, even after the end of our current mission,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced. The Atlantic alliance, he said, w... May 26, 2015 Analysis: Why Iran’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities Doesn’t Bode Well For Nuclear Deal Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure has been marked by intensified persecution and incarceration of Baha’is, Jews, Christians and Sunni Muslims, according to a new report from t... May 26, 2015 US Hostage on Trial in Tehran To its credit, the Washington Post continues to denounce the Iranian regime’s detention of its Tehran correspondent, Jason Rezaian, and we ... May 22, 2015 Egypt’s Religious Freedom Farce President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt presents himself as an Islamic reformer. He has... May 22, 2015 North Korea’s Takeaway From The Iran Nuclear Talks In defense of the Iran nuclear talks, Obama administration officials have made a number of unlikely claims, including the repeated proposition that under the current Tehran regime Iran’s nu... May 22, 2015 Call it ‘Fail Jazeera’ — Why The Network is Imploding For Al Jazeera, May is the cruelest month. In just the past four weeks, two ex-employees have filed separate lawsuits totaling some $100 million, three executives have resigned from its New York-... May 21, 2015 A Dangerous Nexus: Terrorism, Crime, and Corruption Download full testimony here ... May 21, 2015 ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Was a Zionist This week, May 19 to be exact, marks the 80th anniversary of the death of T. E. Lawrence — generally known as Lawrence of Arabia — who played a crucial role as a British officer in de... May 21, 2015 Mideast Experts Blast European Group’s Call to Punish Israeli Government Responding to a group calling itself the European Eminent Persons Group on Middle East issues (EEPG),which urged the EU to take unilateral actions against the Jewish state for the stagnate peace... May 21, 2015 Ramadi Falls–And Iran Will Come To The Rescue? Experts most everywhere agree that the fall of Ramadi to Islamic State is a disaster. It solidifies IS control over a major east-west route from Ramadi (75-100 miles from Baghdad) to deep into Sy... May 20, 2015 New Hezbollah Legislation In A New Sanctions Environment The House of Representatives last week passed H.R. 2297, the “Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015,” tightening sanctions on the Iranian-sponsored terrorist g... May 20, 2015 The Summit That Wasn’t I’d venture to guess that most of what you heard about President Obama’s summit last week was wrong. To start, it wasn’t a “summit.” That term, coined by Winston Chu... May 20, 2015 Who Really Controls Iran’s Economy? The looming nuclear deal will soon unshackle Iran’s economy from the burden of Western sanctions. Who stands to benefit from this opening? While Iran’s public sector, state-c... May 20, 2015 The Case for Expanding Canada’s Sanctions Against Iran In a desperate attempt to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, the Obama administration has forfeited many of its core demands. The framework announced last month in Lausanne, Switzerland, abando... May 19, 2015 Attacks Target Turkey’s Leftist Pro-Kurdish Party – Again Explosions... May 19, 2015 The Next Gaza War That Nobody Wants Israel and Hamas would probably rather not go to war again this summer, but rogue Hamas factions may push the two into conflict again. Hamas’s Gaza-based political leaders, who hav... May 19, 2015 Ali Alfoneh: Tehran’s Brutal Crackdown Continues Almost two years into the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, and just as long after the start of the latest round of nuclear negotiations with Tehran, human rights in Iran show no signs of improvement...

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