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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... 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...

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