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June 24, 2015 How to Worsen the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict The “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians has ground to a halt. What should American and European leaders do? Try not to make the situation worse. That will be a... June 24, 2015 The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa The jihadist group that calls itself the Islamic State has increasingly set its sights on expanding into North Africa. The eighth issue of the group’s English-language magazineDabiq... June 23, 2015 Meet Saudi Arabia’s Biggest (and Most Controversial) Twitter Star Saudi Arabia is changing, some say. The authoritarian desert kingdom is becoming more responsive to the will of its people and the demands of the global information economy, say others. This idea... June 19, 2015 The IRGC v Rohani: Spy v Spy While the United States has pinned its hopes for a negotiated solution to the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme on Iranian President Hassan Rohani’s government, the “... June 18, 2015 The Fundamental Flaws of the Emerging Nuclear Deal Under the emerging Iran nuclear agreement, there is an inherent asymmetry between an expanding Iranian nuclear program and diminishing economic leverage. Tehran over time will develop an industri... June 18, 2015 Spanish Councilman Who Favored Burning of Jews Resigns as Cultural Head Guillermo Zapata, the Madrid city councilman in charge of cultural and sport affairs, resigned his post on Monday because of a series of anti-Jewish tweets that mocked the Holocaust. Zap... June 18, 2015 Children Raised in Nazi Period Carried Forward Anti-Semitism, Study Says The 12 years of Nazism (1933-1945) inculcated young Germans with anti-Jewish ideas that continued after the defeat of Hitler, according to a new study on anti-Semitism. The study, which... June 18, 2015 Assad Wants the Druze for Cannon Fodder Apologists for the Assad regime and its dupes in the West claim the regime is the protector of minorities. Nowhere is it more evident that this is a fallacy than in southern Syria, where the regi... June 17, 2015 Learning from Rafsanjani’s Memoirs Secretary of State John Kerry broke with years of U.S. and international policy on Tuesday, indicating that revealing past... June 17, 2015 The Road to ‘Entropy on a Scale Not Seen in Centuries’ Lt. Gen Michael T. Flynn (ret.) served 33 years in the U.S. Army. Being named President Obama’s director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012 was the culmination of his career. He tho... June 17, 2015 In Defence of the Senate The Senate has faced vociferous attack in recent weeks. Accusations abound that an appointed Senate has no right to dissent from Conservative MP Michael Chong’s Reform Act, which was approv... June 16, 2015 South Africa Flubs its Chance at Justice for Bashir Suspected war criminals scored a victory Monday as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied a South African judge’s order and... June 16, 2015 A Global Perspective on Cyber Threats Download full testimony here... June 16, 2015 The Death and Life of the Two-State Solution On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection, thanks in part to a desperate last-minute pledge to his right-wing base that the Palestinians would never get a state so lon... June 15, 2015 Lifting Sanctions On Iran: Practical Implications This is a closed briefing. Visit http://www.foreign.sen... June 15, 2015 Don’t Look to Iran to Cave on Nukes Ever since Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) was established in 1989 it has been in charge of strategic decision-making in the Islamic Republic, including the direct... June 15, 2015 Analysis: Iran’s War on Christians Casts Doubt on Nuclear Agreement After his campaign promises in 2013 to guarantee the rights of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country’s self-declared moderate President Hassan Rouhani has remain... June 12, 2015 Europe’s Economic War on Israel When it comes to dealing with the increasing calls to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, the United States and Europe are moving in two opposite directions. Last week, South Carol... June 11, 2015 Turkistan Islamic Party Emir Thought Killed in 2010 Reemerged to Lead Group in 2014 The emir of the Turkistan Islamic Party, who served on al Qaeda’s executive leadership council and who was thought to have been killed in a US drone strike in 2010, is believed to have re-e... June 11, 2015 Turkey Thwarts Erdoğan The Turkish general elections ended with the most unlikely outcome. Twenty political parties and 165 independent candidates competed for 550 seats in 85 electoral districts. The ruling Justice an... 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...

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