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March 21, 2015 Report: Iran-Backed Shiite Militias Went on Anti-Sunni Rampage After Freeing Key Iraqi Town After freeing the city of the Iraqi town of Amerli, which had been under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Iranian-backed Shiite militias rampaged through the area carrying out... March 20, 2015 More Iran Oil May Flow Within Months of Deal, Officials Say World powers have offered to suspend U.S. and European restrictions on Iranian oil exports, but only if the Islamic Republic accepts strict limits on its nuclear program for at least a decade, ac... March 20, 2015 Iranian Vulnerability The Obama White House is enlisting all its allies to make its case for the bad nuclear deal with Iran that, say administration allies, is better than no deal. The alternative, they claim, is war.... March 20, 2015 Dead Argentine Prosecutor Was Zeroing in on a Terror Threat to the Entire Western Hemisphere As days go by, the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman — who was found dead in his locked apartment two months ago — becomes murkier in his home country. But in the US it app... March 20, 2015 Glenn Beck Says Barack Obama Took Iran, Hamas off U.S. Terror List ... We see two questions here. First, is it valid for him to call the Clapper report "the terror list"? And second, are the changes in the 2015 report -- the basis for his otherwise inaccu... March 19, 2015 Iran Centrifuge Test Was Error, Not Cheating, U.S. Officials Say When nuclear monitors said Iran had started testing a single advanced centrifuge last year, some U.S. politicians and analysts jumped on the report as proof the Islamic Republic can’t be tr... March 19, 2015 How Netanyahu’s Win Frustrates Efforts For Solving Palestinian Question With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu securing reelection just a day after he vowed to block the establishment of a Palestinian state, many are pessimistic on the prospects for solving t... March 18, 2015 Benjamin Netanyahu Triumphs In the days leading up to the Israeli elections, speculation was rampant – and hopes high in anti-Israel and left-wing circles (including the White House) — that not only would Prime... March 18, 2015 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Key to Nuclear Deal, an Enigma to Many Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator, presents a puzzle. To some, his flawless English and soft manner offer the picture of a pragmatist eager to bring... March 18, 2015 Is Iran Playing the U.S. in the Nuclear Talks Hiding in the standoff between President Obama and Congress over how to deal with international negotiations aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear program is a very real concern: whether the Unit... March 18, 2015 Islamism in the IS Age The “IS-ification of Islamist politics,” in Khalil al-Anani’s felicitous phrase, has reshaped the ideological and strategic incentives for Islamist groups and their adversaries.... March 18, 2015 Militants Kill 17 Tourists In Tunis Museum Two Islamist militants opened fire in the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia’s capital city, killing 19, according to Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid. Victims include 17 foreign... March 18, 2015 Here’s Why Israel’s Elections Had Such a Shocking Conclusion The results of yesterday's national elections in Israel rendered months of commentary utterly worthless. Just about everyone got the Israeli election wrong: pollsters, analysts, jou... March 18, 2015 3 Reasons Benjamin Netanyahu Is On His Way To Being Israel’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to become the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history after his dramatic win in Tuesday, breaking the record set by founding leader David Ben-Gurion.... March 17, 2015 A Real Saint Patrick’s Day Seisiún You’ll perhaps not be surprised to learn that my favorite bit of Irish culture and history involves Irish whiskey, for which I developed a taste as a young foreign correspondent covering th... March 17, 2015 Expert Fears White House Deliberately ‘Whitewashing’ Iran, Hezbollah Terror Threat ... Cliff May, President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington DC think tank, called the Director of National Intelligence’s 2015 Worldwide Threat Assessme... March 17, 2015 Iranian Dissidents Criticize Obama’s Nuclear Diplomacy ... Saeed Ghassiminejad, an Iranian dissident and expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that the letters reflect growing frustration with the Obama administra... March 17, 2015 This Sentence Should Cause a Lot of Concern About Iran Taking Over Iraq A disturbing sign of Iran's growing influence in Iraq and beyond was highlighted on March 8 during a seminar titled "The Iranian Identity," Bloomberg View reports. "Iran is an empir... March 17, 2015 Afghan Officials Acknowledge Islamic State Presence in Their Country The Afghan government said Tuesday that forces belonging to the Islamic State militant organization have taken root in the country, its first official acknowledgment that the group based in Iraq... March 16, 2015 Crunch Time as Iran Nuclear Talks Resume Secretary of State John F. Kerry flies to Switzerland on Sunday for the next round of talks over Iran’s nuclear program, amid soaring expectations that a historic agreement is imminent.... March 16, 2015 SUICIDE BOMBING: New Weapon Of Retreating Boko Haram WHEN the insurgent group, Boko Haram, launched its first suicide bombing attack on June 16, 2011 at the Louis Edet House, headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, Abuja, it marked the first form... March 16, 2015 Breaking Up Sanctions Is Hard to Do The Obama administration is moving closer to a landmark deal with Tehran that would impose new restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for loosening the punishing international s... March 16, 2015 Iran Instructs U.S. to Bypass Congress on Deal, Go to U.N. The Iranian government is urging the United States to go straight to the United Nations to finalize any agreement reached in the coming weeks regarding Tehran’s contested nuclear program wi... March 16, 2015 One-time US Prisoner Now Key in Battling IS One of the key figures participating in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq is a Shi’ite militant who less than a decade ago helped coordinate a brazen attack on U.S... March 16, 2015 Bombshell Report Alleges Argentina, Iran, and Venezuela Were Once All Bound Together Three former Venezuelan government officials who defected from Chavez's regime spoke to the Brazilian magazine Veja about this alleged alliance, which included a deal to get Argentina to rem... March 13, 2015 In Iran Nuclear Talks, It’s All in a Name ... But critics see the approach as a deliberate attempt to skirt the Senate, take it to the U.N. Security Council for a vote on lifting international sanctions, and then present it to the... March 13, 2015 U.S. “Has No Intention” Of Using United Nations To Cement Iran Deal ... Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, was skeptical about the potential for potential U.N. route when BuzzFeed News reached him on Wednesday. &l... March 13, 2015 Atlantic Headline Blares ‘No Global Jihadist Movement,’ While Writer Asserts Otherwise ... An online editor for TheAtlantic.com spoiled a perfectly good article Wednesday, by writing a headline claiming that there is no worldwide movement of violent Islamist terrorism.... March 13, 2015 Obama’s Iran Scheme is Laid Bare ... That brings us to U.S. law. The U.N. resolutions don’t automatically become law, the administration was forced to concede. But under current U.S. sanctions law, the president can... March 13, 2015 ISIS Accepted a Pledge of Allegiance from Africa’s Deadliest Terror Group ... ISIS has a few foreign groups from which it has accepted pledges, including Ansar Bayt al-Maqdisi in the Egyptian Sinai and groups of fighters in strategic areas of Libya. ISIS has a s... March 12, 2015 Obama’s Unilateral Actions Could Doom Iran Deal ... President Obama's plan to use executive actions and national security waivers to suspend sanctions on Iran are becoming the next battleground in his quest for a nuclear deal &mdas... March 12, 2015 Chad, Niger Launch Joint Offensive Against Boko Haram ... However, the official did not rule out the role money might have played in Boko Haram’s decision-making. “Boko would not turn down any funding or material support;... March 12, 2015 Turkish foreign minister: The Person Arrested for Helping 3 British Girls Join ISIS is a Spy ... As the conflict progressed, the fighters taking advantage of this loose border enforcement were more and more radical. ISIS currently controls about 40% of the 565-mile border with Syr... March 11, 2015 Obama’s Failure ... More striking is Iran’s support for al Qaeda. Last week, for the first time in nearly three years, the public saw new information from the bin Laden raid. Documents released as p... March 11, 2015 Here Are the Most Likely Candidates to Replace Iran’s Ailing Supreme Leader ... There are a few plausible candidates, but none of them represents a major rupture with the current revolutionary clerical regime. "It is difficult to prophesy the outc... March 10, 2015 Arab States Opposed the Palestinians’ U.N. Strategy ... The poor Palestinian diplomatic planning for the vote meant they had refused to wait another week until 2015, when the Security Council would have had new members more favorable to the... March 10, 2015 Future President Could Revoke Barack Obama’s Nuclear Deal with Iran, Republicans Warn ... Along with Senator McConnell, Republican signatories include Tom Cotton, Orrin Hatch, John Cornyn, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Thune and Mark Kirk. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand... March 10, 2015 Boko Haram’s ISIS Pledge Brings Jihadi Power Struggle To Africa ... Nigerian jihadi militia Boko Haram has declared itself a franchise of the Islamic State terror group, according to an audio statement from its leader that began circulating Saturday.... March 10, 2015 Jordan Expands Islamic State Bombing Raids Into Iraq After Pilot Burning Death ... Jordan is escalating its offensive as the coalition prepares to expand its air campaign in the months leading up to a large-scale military offensive to wrest from the Islamic S... March 10, 2015 Obama: GOP Wants To Ally With Iranian ‘Hardliners’ ... White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested that the GOP is planning to ignite war with Iran’s anti-Western Islamic theocracy. ”The rush to war, or at least the rush to th... March 9, 2015 Nigeria’s Boko Haram Pledges Allegiance to Islamic State ... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, agreed that if the pledge was real, Boko Haram most likely had some extra motivation.... 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 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...

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