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March 9, 2015 Boko Haram’s Pledge Seen as Propaganda Coup for Islamic State ... Boko Haram’s attempt to set up an Islamic state in northern Nigeria appears to be failing, in a sign the group may have overreached militarily. It has lost control of scores of t... March 9, 2015 Iran Nuclear Deadline Likely to Slip ... But administration critics suspect the administration will try to buy more time for negotiations, and insist that the clock cannot be extended any further. “U.S.... March 9, 2015 Sources: bin Laden Docs Conflict with Obama’s Talk of Al Qaeda Demise ... To date, the public has seen only two dozen of the 1.5 million documents. The haul included hard drives, cell phones, thumb drives, handwritten materials, tapes, magazines, data cards,... March 9, 2015 Mornings on the Mall FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross identifies characteristics of future terrorist threats. Listen here.... March 6, 2015 Special Report with Bret Baier FDD Senior Fellow Ali Alfoneh discusses Iran's influence in the fight against the Islamic State.... March 6, 2015 Turkey’s Wall Street is in ‘Panic Mode’ ... On Thursday Citigroup announced that it would pull up and leave Turkey's second largest bank, selling its almost 10% stake Akbank TAS at an $800 million loss. That tells... March 5, 2015 Video Claims to Show Shi’ite Forces in Iraq Executing Sunni Boy ... While not yet independently confirmed, the brutal killing already has gotten the attention of Islamic State followers on social media. It threatens to worsen a sectarian divide that al... March 5, 2015 Quds Force Leader, Commanding Iraqi Forces Against ISIS, Alarms Washington ... Ali Alfoneh, an Iranian-born scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, cast the involvement of the Quds Force in the ISIS conflict as reflecting a larger trend... March 5, 2015 Award Established to Honor Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman The Foundation for Defense of Democracies announced on Thursday the creation of the Alberto Nisman Award for Courage in honor of the Argentine special prosecutor who was found d... March 5, 2015 Fact Check: The President’s Misleading Charge About Sanctions Relief ... The administration’s claim that it would provide $6 – $7 billion in relief only accounted for the direct relief provided by the relaxing of sanctions, rather than o... March 5, 2015 Top Iranian General Is Taking The Lead Against ISIS, Spreading Iranian Influence Across Middle East ... Qassem Suleimani is the commander of the Quds Force, a unit of the Revolutionary Guard designed to operate outside Iran’s borders. Pictures of Suleimani have been appearing in gr... March 5, 2015 The Obama Administration’s Response to Netanyahu is Premised on One Very Shaky Assumption ... The US basically gained its negotiating leverage through a process that may be impossible to reproduce when there's already a deal in place, business ties have been restored, and... March 4, 2015 Ofoq FDD Senior Fellow Ali Alfoneh participates in a round table discussion about the domestic implications of the IRGC's foreign actions.... March 4, 2015 Lou Dobbs Tonight FDD VP for Research Jonathan Schanzer shares his reaction to Netanyahu's speech before Congress.... March 4, 2015 The John Batchelor Show FDD Senior Fellows Bill Roggio and Thomas Joscelyn discuss their latest pieces for the Long War Journal on Osama bin Laden's files.... March 4, 2015 The Bill Bunkley Show FDD Senior Fellow Emanuele Ottolenghi on state of the Iranian nuclear negotiations and Netanyahu's speech to Congress.... March 4, 2015 The Sid Rosenberg Show FDD Research Fellow Benjamin Weinthal discusses Netanyahu's speech, Israel-U.S. relations, and the Iranian threat.... March 4, 2015 Iran’s Government Tries To Capitalize On Netanyahu Speech Tensions For Domestic Political Boost ... Iranian commentators devoted significant coverage to the tension ahead of the Israeli prime minister’s speech, with many citing the speech as evidence Israel has become increasin... March 4, 2015 Netanyahu Speech Raises Burden for Obama on Iran Nuclear Talks ... In the longer term, Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which has been pushing for a harder line on Iran, said that Mr. Netanyah... March 4, 2015 Don’t Trust Tehran ... Ultimately, there would be formal acceptance of Iran as a nuclear power under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran would be allowed to have an unrestricted industrial-scale uranium enric... March 4, 2015 Eyes and Ears in the Arab World ... Critics — and there are many — point out that the kingdom devotes much of its intelligence resources to spying on its own people. Its secret police apparatus hasn’t e... March 4, 2015 Militants Stubbornly Resist Tikrit Offensive ... Recent Jihadi abductions of Iraqi Christians have prompted disgust among some of their Baathist allies, adding to internal frictions within the alliance, say analysts and Kurdish milit... March 3, 2015 The Heat FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on US decision to export drones to Middle East allies.... March 3, 2015 CTV News FDD Deputy Director of Congressional Relations Boris Zilberman on Kerry's recent comments on Russia.... March 3, 2015 New Day FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on the pathways to radicalization.... March 3, 2015 The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson FDD Senior Fellow Bill Roggio discusses the information on Al Qaeda revealed in bin Laden's documents.... March 3, 2015 John Kerry’s Iran Diplomacy in Cross Hairs of Partisan Battle ... Yet others assert that Netanyahu is not alone among US allies who have doubts that the current negotiations can achieve that. Netanyahu’s government “feels... March 2, 2015 The O’Reilly Factor FDD Executive Director Mark Dubowitz on the growth of radical Islam.... March 2, 2015 Special Report with Bret Baier FDD Senior Fellow Thomas Joscelyn on new revelations from the bin Laden documents.... March 2, 2015 Erin Burnett OutFront FDD Executive Director Mark Dubowitz discusses Prime Minister Netanyahu's upcoming speech to Congress.... March 2, 2015 Deal or No Deal? Iran Nuclear Talks Deadline Hovers Over AIPAC Conference ... Landau said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, formerly the country’s chief nuclear negotiator, is “committed to Iran’s nuclear program” but merely differs... March 2, 2015 Seoul Hopes to Build U.N. Headquarters, Peace Park Near North Korea’s DMZ ... Regional analysts and journalists participating in the conference where Mrs. Kyng-won spoke of the initiative were divided over its potential viability — and some were outright c... March 2, 2015 Can Obama’s Iran Deal Outlive His Presidency? ... Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a skeptic of the nuclear negotiations, said he thinks Congress probably won’t e... March 2, 2015 Libya: Hold Policymakers Accountable For Another Washington War Gone Bad ... The conflict has seeped out of Libya. Warned the Economist: “Arab tribes and other ethnic groups in the country’s rugged south are running amok, smuggling arms, trafficking... February 27, 2015 The Situation Room FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein Ross discusses the identity of ISIS fighter 'Jihadi John'... February 27, 2015 Transfer Denied: The Hidden Costs of Washington’s War Against al-Shabab ... The U.S. government could also create its own link to Somalia by using the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a middleman to make the wire transfers. But Juan Zarate, a former... February 27, 2015 Draft Chinese Law Paves Way for Counter-Terror Operations Abroad ... While the draft gives few details, experts said the law could initially allow military or state security counter-terrorism experts to work abroad either as part of actual investigation... February 27, 2015 Unmasking of ‘Jihadi John’ Sheds Little Light on His Radicalization ... “If it’s true he was going to join Al-Shabab, it’d be hard to say that he wasn’t already radicalized,” added Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fel... February 27, 2015 Name Game ... For those who demand a religious reference to the specific type of violent extremism sweeping the Middle East and North Africa today, the correct term is salafi jihadists, as d... February 26, 2015 New Report by FDD Scholar Outlines Civil War in Libya WASHINGTON- A new report authored by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, outlines how Libya’s civil war between the Dignity and Dawn campaig... February 26, 2015 New Day FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on the identification of Jihadi John as a British national.... February 26, 2015 New Day FDD Senior Fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on the challenges of tracking potential terrorists.... February 26, 2015 CTV News FDD Senior Fellow Thomas Joscelyn on why Westerners are attracted to the Islamic State.... February 26, 2015 The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley FDD Research Analyst Behnam Ben Taleblu discusses the upcoming deadline of the Iran nuclear talks.... February 26, 2015 The John Batchelor Show FDD Senior Fellow Bill Roggio talks with John Batchelor about the situation in Yemen.... February 26, 2015 Garrison FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen on what might be included in a potential Iran nuclear deal.... February 26, 2015 Opinion Journal FDD Deputy Director of Research Oren Kessler on what motivates young Muslim men to join the Islamic State.... February 26, 2015 Qatar Emir to Meet Obama Amid Accusations of Religious Incitement ... However, an opinion piece published on Monday in Politico magazine accused Qatar of fomenting sectarian hate in the region. “Qatar is a major source of hateful r... February 26, 2015 Iran Hangs Obama in Effigy Even as it Negotiates Nuclear Deal with US ... The U.S. and other superpowers want to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. Iran says its nuclear intentions are peaceful, a claim that experts dismiss. “Th... February 26, 2015 We Still Need U.S. Bases in Afghanistan ... Of course, the pace of drone strikes and raids in the Pashtun areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, historically used by al-Qaeda and affiliates, can and should decline. Indeed, a...

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