Skip to main content
About
About FDD
FDD Team
Advisors
Jobs and Internships
National Security Network
Issues
Israel at War
Russia
Iran
China
Turkey
Cyber
All Issues
Projects
Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation
Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab
Center on Economic and Financial Power
Center on Military and Political Power
FDD's Long War Journal
Barish Center for Media Integrity
China Program
International Organizations Program
Iran Program
Israel Program
Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program
Turkey Program
Russia Program
National Security Network
All Projects
Products
Analysis
Op-eds
Flash Briefs
Insights
Policy Briefs
Foreign Policy Trackers
Memos
Monographs
Visuals
Congressional Testimonies
In The News
Quotes
Broadcast Appearances
Podcasts
Foreign Podicy
Generation Jihad
FDD Events Podcast
FDD Morning Brief
Overnight Brief
Connect
Events
Government Relations
Congressional Testimonies
Media Center
Press Releases
Media Calls
National Security Network
Subscribe
Invest
About
About FDD
FDD Team
Advisors
Jobs and Internships
National Security Network
Issues
Israel at War
Russia
Iran
China
Turkey
Cyber
All Issues
Projects
Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation
Center on Economic and Financial Power
Center on Military and Political Power
Barish Center for Media Integrity
China Program
International Organizations Program
Iran Program
Israel Program
Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program
Turkey Program
Russia Program
National Security Network
All Projects
Products
Analysis
In The News
Podcasts
FDD Morning Brief
Overnight Brief
Connect
Events
Government Relations
Media Center
National Security Network
Subscribe
Invest
Quotes
Filter
Close
Products
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...
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
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
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
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
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...
February 26, 2015
The US Caught Two Members of Iran’s Lebanese Proxy Running an Amusement Park in Nigeria
... The Fawazes were charged in Nigeria over their Hezbollah connections in 2013. While their businesses are still operating, it took the US Treasury nearly 2 years to sanction them....
February 26, 2015
Janus-Faced Ally Meets Obama
... Several Washington think tanks over the last year have taken the Qatari government to task for failing to stanch the flow of its wealthy citizens’ private donations to radical gr...
February 26, 2015
Islamic State Having Significant but Limited Impact in Libya
... Some analysts likewise have been cautious in describing Islamic State’s progress in Libya. “The extent of their gains is being overblown,” said Thoma...
February 25, 2015
Gazprom Seeks U.S. Stamp of Approval as Sanctions Warnings Rise
... Russia has repeatedly denied involvement in the conflict that has killed more than 5,600 people and sent its ties with the EU and the U.S. to the lowest point since the end of the Cold...
February 25, 2015
Israeli Settlement Tenders Reach 10-Year High
... The figures for Israeli settlement construction have continued to rise despite U.S. criticism of the continued issuance of tenders. Washington last month described the latest batch of...
February 24, 2015
PA and PLO Found Liable to Compensate American Victims of Terror; Future of PA Left Shaky
... Though this is a win for the victims’ and their families, many speculate that the defendants will most certainly appeal the verdict. Darshan Leitner, for one, knows the w...
February 24, 2015
Exclusive: Iran Smuggles in $1 Billion of Bank Notes to Skirt Sanctions – Sources
... A report last year by the U.N. Security Council's Panel of Experts on Iran said Iran had used cash and money changers to help get around banking restrictions. "The Panel...
February 24, 2015
Palestinian Authorities Fined After Conviction on Terror Charge
The Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority were last night ordered to pay more than $218 million after a landmark US court ruling found them guilty of providing material...
February 24, 2015
Reports: ISIS Abducted More Than 70 Assyrian Christians in Syria
... Last week, ISIS terrorists released a video showing the beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians, prompting retaliatory airstrikes from Egypt against ISIS positions. This pa...
February 24, 2015
Turkey’s “Cold War” With ISIS May Be Warming
... For much of Syria’s civil war, Turkey turned a blind eye to extremists passing through its borders, including foreign jihadis, hoping these fighters would help to speed the downf...
February 23, 2015
Try Not to Think of Jihad
... By “choosing not to emphasize,” Zakaria means “falsely denying.” And while it is always a good idea to avoid giving gratuitous offense, it is unclear that Ameri...
February 23, 2015
Our Failure to Communicate: ISIS’ Message Resonates Online; America’s Does Not
... But, lest we throw up our hands, the world doesn’t necessarily confront an unstoppable Leviathan. For sure, social media is important for ISIS, which is at war w...
February 23, 2015
ISIS is Losing
... Though there have been some reports of ISIS advances in western Syria, "the territories they have gained are meaningless [or] they didn't get to keep them," Abbas explains....
February 23, 2015
Obama Won’t Meet Netanyahu, but He’s Meeting With the Head of This Jihadist-Supporting Country
... The Daily Beast reported that a Qatari government ministry promoted the preacher’s remarks on Twitter, and it was broadcast on the official state channel Qatar TV....
February 23, 2015
Could ISIS’ Foray into North Africa Draw Another Western Intervention in Libya?
... While the international community and Arab states oppose the Houthi coup, the Shi’ite group has been given a free hand, which has allowed Iran to impose its will on the country,...
February 23, 2015
Hillary’s Cowardice in Face of Looming Iran Debacle
... There are glaring deficiencies with both suggestions. For starters, since the administration has permitted Iranian stonewalling of the IAEA there is no effective means of insp...
<
1
…
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
…
263
>