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November 6, 2014 Is the Post-Abbas Mideast Already Here? ... Concern over a post-Abbas Middle East is becoming more common. Last month, the Times of Israel’s Haviv Rettig Gur wrote a typically incisive essay on the state of play between Is... November 5, 2014 The Arena with Michael Coren FDD Senior Fellow Emanuele Ottolenghi assesses the success of the United States led efforts against the Islamic State.... November 5, 2014 Andy Parks Live from the Washington Times FDD President Clifford May discusses his latest column, "Building a Palestinian City on a Hill."... November 5, 2014 The Midterms Change the Iran Equation ... Now, however, a new factor is added to the mix: A GOP-majority Senate. With that on the horizon, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) tells me this morning: “With each passing day, U.S. diplo... November 4, 2014 The John Batchelor Show FDD Senior Fellows Bill Roggio and Thomas Joscelyn discuss their recent pieces for the Long War Journal. Listen her... November 4, 2014 The John Batchelor Show FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen questions whether Obama is attempting a rapprochement with Iran, similar to the "Nixon-to-China Moment."... November 4, 2014 Political and Diplomatic Uncertainty Fuel US-Israel Divide The ‘chickenshit’ affair is emblematic of deteriorating relations during tumultuous times, as top officials brace themselves for radical regional changes. ...... November 4, 2014 Rivals Tehran, Riyadh Pledge Billions to Lebanon’s Army ... Hezbollah, strained by the deployment of thousands of its fighters in Syria, has become increasingly reliant on the army for maintaining domestic stability. “They need t... November 4, 2014 Nusra Fights to Establish Supply Lines ... The attacks over the weekend, Khashan said, were an attempt to “break the stranglehold” that the Syrian opposition groups in the Qalamoun region are experiencing.... November 4, 2014 Hezbollah Threats to Israel ‘Emboldened’ by Improved American-Iranian Ties, Expert Says ... A leading Middle East analyst in Washington, DC told The Algemeiner that Nasrallah’s brazenness was partly triggered by the improvement in relations between the US and Iran, Hezb... November 4, 2014 Wanted: ISIS Seeking Manager for its New Oil Refineries, Paying $225k ... ISIS terrorists reportedly took control of a natural gas field in the Homs province of Syria. Photographic evidence suggests the extremists captured parts of a natural gas fiel... November 4, 2014 Pakistan Border Bombing: ISIS, al-Qaeda Affiliated Terrorist Groups Race To Claim Responsibility ... A suicide attack on the Pakistani border with India that left at least 60 people dead and more than 150 wounded is so significant that several jihadist groups are trying to claim respo... November 3, 2014 Minister’s Family Ties to Terror ... David Weinberg, of the US-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said: “Mr al-Attiyah’s case appears to show another instance of Qatar’s government... November 3, 2014 Is Qatar the most two-faced nation on Earth? Supporter of terrorism or loyal friend to Britain, a country it's buying up? As the PM meets the Gulf state's leader today, will he dare ask the tough questions... November 3, 2014 Putin’s Response to EU Sanctions: See You in Court ... Sanctions challenges are more likely to be filed in Europe than in the U.S. because European courts rarely allow governments to present classified evidence under seal, which ca... October 31, 2014 Iranian Economy In Moderate Recovery Thanks To Sanctions Relief, New Report Finds WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Roubini Global Economics (RGE) released their eighth joint report today on the effects of sanctions relief on the Iranian ec... October 31, 2014 Is This How the Third Intifada Begins? ... This earned a quick reply from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Jonathan Schanzer, who urged Ravid to "calm down, man," although, minutes before, Schanz... October 31, 2014 Kerry Sounds Sensible on Iran?! ... Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies shares this concern.”Refusing to insist that Iran shut its nuclear facilities, a position held by the Obama adm... October 31, 2014 State Dept., Iran Officials Meet at Pittsburgh Business Forum ... Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the Pittsburgh visit appeared to be an attempt by Mousavian “to mobilize the U.S. business... October 31, 2014 ISIS Fliers on a Marine Corps Base? ... "While these leaflets may be a hoax, base officials are taking their discovery seriously," a Marine Corps spokesman told The Daily Beast. The town of Quantico is located insid... October 31, 2014 The ISIS ‘Mastermind’ Responsible For The Group’s Advance Through Western Iraq May Be A Figurehead ... Shishani's military style could reflect his brother's experience fighting for an insurgency. Whereas other ISIS commanders fight in a more standard way through wave attacks o... October 30, 2014 Palestinian Government Calls for War in Jerusalem ... “There is a very unique phenomenon we’re observing right now, unlike anything we’ve seen before,” said Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of res... October 30, 2014 Treasury Efforts to Squeeze Islamic State Funding Will Be Difficult ... “Targeting ISIL’s money will be a significant challenge given its clandestine financing sources,” said Mark Dubowitz, a counterterrorism expert with the Found... October 30, 2014 The Qatar Conundrum ... “Qatari support to Hamas takes numerous forms, not just financial,” says Dr David Weinberg, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank... October 30, 2014 Analysis: US Concerns with Israel Too Deep for Silence ... Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says that personal animus is not at root of the conflict between the two principals.... October 29, 2014 Analysts: IS Ignores al-Qaida’s Call to Reunite to Fight West, but Their Feud Has Tapered Off ... WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida is using U.S. airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches to the renegade Islamic State group, saying the two should stop feuding and join forc... October 28, 2014 New FDD Monograph Explores Role of China in Afghanistan’s Future WASHINGTON – A new monograph published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explores the role China is likely to play in shaping Afghanistan’s future, now that American troops... October 28, 2014 The John Batchelor Show FDD Senior Fellows Bill Roggio and Thomas Joscelyn chat with John Batchelor about their latest pieces for the Long War Journal.... October 28, 2014 The John Batchelor Show FDD Journalist-in-Residence Claudia Rosett comments on the State Department's North Korea strategy.... October 28, 2014 Digging In Bill Roggio and Caleb Weiss write, at The Long War Journal... October 28, 2014 Analysts Worry Over “Cascade of US Concessions” as Iran Nuke Talks Near Deadline ... Iranian leaders had demanded that the West cave on those issues, which they publicly described as red lines for the regime. The Washington Post on Sunday quoted Mark Dubowitz &... October 28, 2014 A Month Ago, ISIS’s Advance Looked Unstoppable. Now It’s Been Stopped. ... The question, then, is whether ISIS's recent victories in Anbar have been more important than its defeats. That's not obvious. It's also not obvious that its advances in... October 28, 2014 An Iran Deal in Which Both Sides Can Claim Victory ... Mark Dubowitz, the director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank who has helped shape congressional sanctions on Iran and been a skeptic of the talk... October 27, 2014 Iran’s Non-Muslims Face Prison, Execution, Despite ‘Reform’ Claims, Says New UN Report Iran’s regime conducted a raid on an Easter service and arrested Christians, subjected Christian converts to death threats and psychological abuse and shut down licensed churches, according... October 27, 2014 Has a Deal With Iran Stalled? ... A new deal is not out of the question. “Iran may not be willing to take ‘backward steps’ but one shouldn’t discount the possibility that there are casca... October 27, 2014 ISIS Affiliate Turns on Egypt: 26 Killed, 26 Injured ... Earlier this decade, when the Muslim Brotherhood was fairly lax and ineffective in fighting ABM, most of ABM’s deadly activity was conducted on the Sinai Peninsula. But since el-... October 27, 2014 Canada Should Give Police More Power to Arrest Would-Be Terrorists Before They Attack, Experts Say ... Still, Canada must be careful not to tread on democratic principles in response to lone-wolf incidents that may have been all but impossible to prevent, said Sheryl Saperia, Ca... October 27, 2014 Hints of An Iran Giveaway ... Sanctions expert Mark Dubowitz, who helped design the sanctions regime, counsels that we should be wary of “a cascade of further administration concessions ahead of Novem... October 27, 2014 The Most Powerful Militaries In The Middle East ... The ranking is based on a holistic assessment of the militaries' operational capabilities and hardware, based on our research and on interviews with Patrick Megahan, an ex... October 24, 2014 New Day FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross explains the difficulties of preventing lone-wolf terrorist attacks.... October 24, 2014 News FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross shares his thoughts on whether the United States should be concerned about an attack similar to the shooting in Ottawa.... October 24, 2014 The John Batchelor Show FDD Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer chats with John Batchelor about Turkey's lack involvement in the fight against the Islamic State.... October 24, 2014 Terry Boyd’s World FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross comments on the attack in Ottawa. Listen here.... October 24, 2014 Lone-Wolf Attacks Duel With Airstrikes in New Warfare Era ... “The primary hypothesis at this point should be that” the Ottawa attacker “was influenced by the Islamic State and its call to action,” said Da... October 24, 2014 Hawks on the Hunt: GOP Pounces on Obama Foreign Policy Flubs for Poll Edge ... Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, agreed that’s a likely outcome of a shift in power. “Congress does not want an Ira... October 24, 2014 Nightmare: Qatar Was Elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council, but That Could Be Just the Beginning ... “Putting him in charge of the U.N. secretary-general’s post could be a nightmare,” said David Andrew Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Washington-base... October 24, 2014 Top Iranian Official: Obama is ‘The Weakest of U.S. Presidents’ ... “President Obama does believe that by rewarding Iran and permitting it to do whatever it wants in the region, the mullahs in Tehran will be convinced to compromise,&rdquo... October 23, 2014 Fox & Friends First FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discusses the possible affiliations of the Ottawa shooter.... October 23, 2014 The Current FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross shares his thoughts on how to prevent homegrown terrorism.... October 23, 2014 Andy Parks Live from the Washington Times FDD President Clifford May discusses his latest column, "'Homeland' Under Attack."...

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