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January 28, 2015
Libyan Ansar al-Sharia Leader Gets Medical Treatment in Turkey
Ansar al-Sharia Libya confirmed this weekend that its leader, Mohamed al-Zahawi, had passed away from wounds sustained last year. Ansar al-Sharia is a jihadist group best-known outside of Libya f...
January 27, 2015
Lynch and Nisman: Connecting the Dots Between Two Iranian Plots
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on January 28 for Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become attorney general of the United State...
January 24, 2015
Succession in Saudi; Tehran Triangulates
Following the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz on Thursday, Iranian President...
January 20, 2015
Waning Public Support for Tehran’s Nuclear Aspirations
Iran’s regime is at odds with itself over the costs and benefits of its controversial nuclear program. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the back and forth between President Hassan Rouh...
January 13, 2015
Iran Nuclear Chief Reveals Gaps With P5+1
An unusually extensive interview with the head of the Iran Atomic Energy Organization underscores the yawning gaps still remaining between the positions of the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group...
January 13, 2015
A Milestone for Saudi Oil Policy
For the last several years, oil produced in North America has generally sold for a cheaper price than oil imported from across the At...
January 8, 2015
France: Europe’s Terror Hub
Wednesday’s attack...
January 7, 2015
The Paris Attack: A Possible Yemen Connection
“Tell the media that this is al-Qaeda in the Yemen,” gunmen in today’s deadly attack in Paris...
December 30, 2014
Putin’s Lower Vodka Prices Won’t Offset Russian Economic Woes in 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered vodka prices last week for the first time since the Kremlin adopted pricing standards in 2010...
December 30, 2014
A Last Minute Palestinian Resolution at the UN Security Council
The Jordanian delegation at the UN Security Council called for a vote on a draft resolution on Palestinian statehood Tuesday evening, in a session called for hastily earlier in the day. The resol...
December 26, 2014
Reading Washington’s New Cuba Policy in Tehran
President Barack Obama’s overturning of Washington’s longstanding commercial and diplomatic isolation of Cuba earlier this month has grabbed the attention of another country chafing u...
December 18, 2014
EU Parliamentary Recognition of Palestine
The European Union Parliament voted...
December 16, 2014
The Peshawar Attack: Sickening, but No Surprise
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, one of many al-Qaeda-linked jihadist groups operating in the South Asian country, launched one of its more horrific...
December 15, 2014
Portugal’s Palestinian Recognition Adds Momentum to Diplomatic Push
The Portuguese parliament on Friday called on the government to recognize an independent Palestinian state. The motion was filed on behalf of both the center-right and socialist parties, and it u...
December 11, 2014
Khaled Mashal’s Road to Damascus Runs Through Tehran
An...
December 9, 2014
AQ Leader’s Arrest Highlights Turkey’s Terror Problem
A joint U.S.-Turkish operation last month led to the capture of a senior...
December 4, 2014
Blowback in Sana’a
A car bomb exploded early Wednesday morning outside the Iranian ambassador&rsq...
December 3, 2014
Khamenei’s Speech After the JPOA Extension
Addressing high ranking members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Basij on Nov. 27, Iranian Supreme Leader Al...
November 17, 2014
UAE’s Zealous New Terror List
The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday its list of terrorist organizations under a new counterterrorism l...
November 5, 2014
Iran’s Hidden Unemployment Figures
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani came into office in August 2013 promising better governance and economic reform. His administration launched investigations into corruption, which flourished...
October 23, 2014
Sinai’s Volatility Increasingly Unites Egypt and Israel
Militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula carried out a cross-border shooting attack on Wednesday, leaving an Israeli female...
October 23, 2014
The Passing of Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani
Another man of the cloth has perished....
October 21, 2014
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Seeks Help from Hamas
Last week, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the Muslim Brotherhood’s wing in Jordan, wrote an open...
October 21, 2014
UK Blacklists Qatari for Terror Finance, Pledges Closer U.S. Coordination
Ten months after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned suspected terrorist financier Abdulrahman bin Omeir al-Nuaymi, th...
October 15, 2014
The Iran-China-Russia Triangle
A wave of U.S. and EU financial sanctions aimed at Russia following its annexation of Crimea in the summer of 2014 have brought Russia and Iran closer. However, Russia is not the only economy tha...
October 10, 2014
AQAP Capitalizes on the Chaos in Yemen
Two coordinated suicide attacks believed to be carried out by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on...
October 10, 2014
Khamenei’s Expanding Nuclear Redlines
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is at it again. Following a recent unsuccessful prob...
October 7, 2014
Iran Sanctions Relief Backfires, Benefitting the IRGC
Sanctions relief, according to the White House and supporters of the current negotiating strategy with Iran, empow...
September 17, 2014
Iranian Leverage over Turkey?
The Turkish daily Taraf published a blockbuster article Tuesday alleging that Iran has been blackmailing Tur...
September 15, 2014
Turkey’s State-Owned Bank Probed By the New York Fed
The United States Federal Reserve launched a probe last week into the New Y...
September 4, 2014
Boko Haram Did Not Declare a Caliphate
Reports suggest that Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, either declared a caliphate or announced that the group’s territorial gains have become part of a cal...
August 28, 2014
Gaza Polls Show Abbas Popularity
In a recent poll in Gaza, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas garnered a favorability of 54 percent. The poll, taken in...
August 28, 2014
Countering Gaza’s Mortars
Hours before the latest ceasefire was announced between Hamas and Israel, two Israeli civilians...
August 21, 2014
The Worst Club in the Middle East
Hamas made headlines yesterday when the organization’s West Bank...
August 7, 2014
Kuwait’s Terrorism Finance Problems Compound
Just one day after Kuwait announced new financial regulations to counter terrorism finance, the U.S. Treasury Department yesterday imposed sanctions on three individuals for fundraising in Kuwait...
August 4, 2014
US-Qatar Alliance: Under Strain?
Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf petropower, is known to exert outsized influence in the Middle East. But between the war in Syria and the most recent conflict in Gaza, it may have pushed Washington to...
July 31, 2014
Khamenei Mends Relations with Hamas
Arm Hamas. That was the main message of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s speech on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the feast...
July 30, 2014
Hamas’s New Commandos
Hamas rocket barrages are reaching deeper into Israel than previous conflicts,...
July 28, 2014
Turkey’s Flotilla Charity Seeks Renewed Confrontation with Israel
The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), the Turkish charity that organized the ill-fated flotilla to the Gaza Strip in 2010, appears to be preparing for round two – this time with the hel...
July 25, 2014
Quds Day, Palestinian Protests, and West Bank Stability
Palestinians in the West Bank organized one of the largest protest marches in recent history last night, sparking clashes with Israeli police late into the morning. The protest, dubbed the &ldquo...
July 25, 2014
Quds Day In Iran
Amidst the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Iran’s celebration of...
July 18, 2014
Gaza Conflict Reveals Anti-Semitic Undercurrent in Turkey
Violent protestors gathered yesterday in front of the Israeli embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Istanbul. Protesters in Istanbul...
July 17, 2014
Gaza Rockets, Iranian Fingerprints
Hamas has fired ...
July 15, 2014
Gaza and Turkish Politics
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan condemned Israeli military operations in Gaza last week, and called...
July 9, 2014
AQAP and ISIS Compete for Saudi Attention
Saudi Arabia was reinforcing its northern border last w...
July 8, 2014
Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Street
Since the eruption of violence across Arab communities in Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank last week, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has endeavored to straddle a fine line between pr...
July 2, 2014
Bandar’s Back. Again.
Just after midnight local time, Saudi Arabia’s official news wire announced early Tuesday that the King issued royal decrees making major changes in the country’s national security ec...
June 27, 2014
Operation Dignity: New Fighting Grips Libya
Co-Authored by Nathaniel Barr Former Libyan army general Khalifa Hifter l...
June 14, 2014
Turkey’s ISIS Crisis
ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham -- “Sham” is Arabic for the Levant) took over the key Iraqi city of Mosul on June 11. Northern Iraqi Kurdish fighters, known as the p...
June 10, 2014
Where Does Iran’s Supreme Leader Stand on Nuclear Diplomacy?
As the deadline for the expiration of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) nears, Iran and the P5+1 continue to work towards s...
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