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January 14, 2013 Al-Shabab Jihadist More Whiner Than Martyr Since becoming the most prominent foreign fighter in the Somali armed Islamist group Al-Shabab, former Toronto pizza deliveryman Omar Hammami has turned into a remarkably whiny jihadist.... January 14, 2013 US Drone Strikes in Pakistan on Rise for 2013 The CIA has opened the year with a flurry of drone strikes in Pakistan, pounding Taliban targets along the country’s tribal belt at a time when the Obama administration is preparing to disc... January 14, 2013 Iran Could Reach Key Point for Nuclear Bomb by Mid-2014: US Experts Iran could produce enough weapon-grade uranium for one or more nuclear bombs by mid-2014, and the United States and its allies should inte... January 10, 2013 US Warns Foreign Exchange Houses Are Helping Iran to Skirt Sanctions The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday warned financial institutions to be on the lookout for money transfers sent by foreign exchange houses and trading companies that are actually an attempt... January 7, 2013 New Iran Sanctions Target Industry in Bid for Deal Curbing Nuclear Program New U.S. sanctions have broadened the front in the West’s escalating economic conflict with Iran, targeting large sw... January 7, 2013 ‘State of Palestine’ Title is Symbolic but a Political Risk What's in a name? A lot, according to Mahmoud Abbas, the West Bank's Palestinian president and many Palestinians. Which is why he changed the name of the Palestinian Authority... January 7, 2013 Obama Sticks to Circle of Friends for National Security Posts In his first term, President Obama purposefully set out to build an administration that, while not quite Abraham Lincoln's Team of Rivals, insured that his most prominent advisers included s... January 7, 2013 Afghan Jail a ‘Tougher Problem Than Guantanamo’ With more than five times the number of prisoners than the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. jail next to Bagram Airfield is just one of many factors affecting the degree to which U.... January 7, 2013 American Missiles Kill Senior Taliban Militant in Pakistan Who Fought US Troops in Afghanistan An American drone strike in Pakistan has killed a top Taliban commander who sent money and fighters to battle the U.S. in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, officials said T... January 7, 2013 New Pak Taliban Faction Chief Fought Against India in J&K Bahawal Khan, the new chief of a Taliban faction in Pakistan's South Waziristan region after the killing of Mullah Nazir in a US drone strike, is a militant who fought Indian troops in Jammu... January 4, 2013 Obama Administration’s ‘Failings’ on Syria It is hard to dispute claims that Syria will be seen as one of the biggest foreign policy failures of the Obama administration, according to analyst Tony Badran. Speaking to the Guardian... January 4, 2013 In Iran’s Factories and Shops, Tighter Sanctions Exact Toll A manager of Bam Shargh Isogam, an Iranian manufacturer of insulation sheets for rooftops, saw trouble ahead when a government official offered advice for surviving the crippling international sa... December 28, 2012 Inside the West’s Economic War with Iran In his first week as U.S. president, Barack Obama told Iran's leaders he would extend a hand if they would "unclench their fist" and persuade the West they weren't trying to build a nuc... December 26, 2012 Partnership Up and Running, but Funding is Unclear When President Barack Obama announced he would create the Shared Security Partnership, he pledged to spend a specific amount of money -- $5 billion -- on a broad array of interests. The... December 26, 2012 John Kerry’s Challenges Ahead “Kerry’s not going to surprise Obama the way Madeleine Albright surprised Bill Clinton over Kosovo,” said Kori Schake, a Hoover Institution fellow who served as foreign policy a... December 17, 2012 Al-Qaida’s Core is Weakened, but Some Affiliates are Growing In analyzing how well Barack Obama has fulfilled his promise to "crush al-Qaida,” the rating depends heavily on how you define "al-Qaida.” In interviews with terrorism... December 17, 2012 ‘Generous’: Remember John Kerry’s Praise of Syrian Dictator Assad? With multiple... December 13, 2012 Iran in Focus: Current Issues for Canadian Foreign Policy (Page 20) Sheryl Saperia from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies testified: Even a nuclear-capable Iran, [distinguished] from a nuclear-armed Ir... December 13, 2012 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on the Future of Preventive Detention Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has a chapter in this new book, entitled &l... December 12, 2012 Obama Gives Syrian Rebels Recognition President Obama said on Tuesday that the United States will formally recognize a coalition of Syrian opposition groups as that country’s legitimate representative, intensifying pressure on... December 12, 2012 Islamists are Worse Than Dictators Who is worse, President Mohammed Morsi, the elected Islamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or former President... December 11, 2012 How Close Did Israel Just Come to Its Own Cuban Missile Crisis? Hundreds of Iranian-made, long-range missiles already smuggled into Gaza provided a secret sense of urgency behind Israel's recent campaign against Hamas, and the the Jewish state acted with... December 11, 2012 US Ambassador Warns Syria If the Syrian government crosses American “red lines” by using chemical weapons against its own people, that will “change our calculations in a fundamental way,” Robert Fo... December 11, 2012 UN Envoy Is Seeking a Deal to Oust Assad From Syria With the support of the United States, the... December 11, 2012 UN Envoy Says Clinton, Lavrov to Work Together on Syria U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi today, renewing a diplomatic push to end... December 10, 2012 On Europe’s Foreign Agenda: How to Handle Israel Compared with Americans, Europeans express more sympathies with Palestinians in their dispute with... December 10, 2012 Morsi Retreats, a Little The Post reports that Eg... December 10, 2012 Al Qaeda Expansion in Libya Part of Long-Term Terror Vision? Al Qaeda's expansion in Libya, following the successful terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on Sept. 11, is part of a long-term plan by Al Qaeda senior leadershi... December 10, 2012 Leading from the Rehab Center Since suffering a near-fatal stroke last January, two tasks have obsessed Senator Mark Kirk from his encampment at a Chicago rehabilitation center: relearning how to walk, and expanding the econo... December 10, 2012 US Renews Exemptions From Iran Sanctions The Obama administration reissued waivers that exempt nine countries, including China, India and Turkey, from fully complying with U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports, as the U.S. at... December 10, 2012 Is the US ‘War on Terror’ Still Tenable? With America's "war on terror" now focused far beyond its original targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the legal justifications for it have become increasingly irrelevant and untenable, eve... December 7, 2012 Ambassador Ford: Hey, Syria’s a Mess Ambassador Robert Ford, who has served in Syria bravely in the face of physical danger, spoke in Washington, D.C., at a conference held by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. It is... December 7, 2012 New Iran Sanctions Measure to ‘Lock Up’ Oil Earnings-US Official The United States has aggressively ramped up its use of financial sanctions this year to pressure Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons, but a measure that takes effect in February could have the... December 7, 2012 Conference Mulls the Hard Choice Between Dictators and Dissidents It wasn't that long ago that the question posed by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' (FDD) annual national security conference — "Dictators and Dissidents: Should the Wes... December 7, 2012 Syrian Rebels Gain, But For How Long? The resignation of Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi on Monday is just one of a series of recent setbacks for the embattled regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The news follows a... December 7, 2012 Springtime for Assad We are beginning to doubt whether Bashar Assad is a genuine reformer. Our latest clue comes from... December 5, 2012 What Good is It Giving the Turks Patriot Missiles? The Associated Press reports: “U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says NATO’s decision to send Patriot missiles to Turkey is a clear message to Syria: Turkey is backed by... December 4, 2012 Analysts: Egypt’s Military Won’t Buck the Brotherhood Egypt's military played a decisive role in the 2011 uprising that ended the rule of dictator Hosni Mubarak in the face of a popular uprising. The generals are likely to stand aside this time... December 4, 2012 The Growing Divide Between Israel and Europe Late Sunday, Barak Ravid, the scoop-prone diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,... December 3, 2012 The UN Vote on Palestine: Profiles in Cowardice Last week's vote to extend non-member observer status to the Palestinians at the United Nations was a virtual primer on what is wrong with the U.N., the European Union, the Palestinian Autho... November 29, 2012 Undue Recognition The United Nations is poised to officially recognize the state of Palestine, an unprecedented international endorsement that would enable the Palestinians to prosecute Israeli officials for what... November 29, 2012 Congress Set to Consider New Iran Sanctions Package The Senate will soon take up a new package of Iran sanctions, which if approved, could force the administration once more to implement new punitive measures on Iran. On Thursday afternoo... November 29, 2012 Senators Push for New Round of Sanctions on Iran in Shipping, Energy Sectors Senators pressed ahead Thursday on a new set of tough sanctions against Iran’s domestic industries as it seeks to cripple the Islamic republic’s economy and thwart its nuclear ambitio... November 29, 2012 Blackout in Damascus: Syria’s Winter of Discontent In recent days, some seasoned members of the Syrian opposition have been watching the situation in Damascus... November 29, 2012 Syria’s Internet Shutdown Leaves Information Void, May Signal Escalating War Syria’s civil war went offline Thursday as millions of people tracking the conflict over YouTube, Facebook and other high-tech services found themselves struggling against an unnerving... November 29, 2012 Senate Set to Consider Broader Economic Sanctions on Iran The U.S. Senate is set to consider a broader set of economic sanctions on Iran's energy, port, shipping and shipbuilding sectors, as lawmakers look for new ways to pressure Tehran to stop ef... November 29, 2012 New US Sanctions Proposed for Iranian Energy, Shipping Two U.S. senators who pressed for the economic sanctions that have reduced Iran’s crude oil exports and earnings have proposed additional steps to force Iran to curb its suspected nuclear w... November 28, 2012 Iran’s Nuclear Stockpile Grows but Not Yet in “Danger Zone” An increase in Iran's higher-grade uranium stockpile is worrying but may arise from a bottleneck in making reactor fuel rather than a bid to quickly accumulate material that could be used fo... November 27, 2012 More Turmoil in the Middle East The Jerusalem Post reports: “Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his resignation from politi... November 26, 2012 EU Ignores Most of Hezbollah Terror in Ban Decision The 27-member European Union has largely circled the wagons around the investigation into Hezbollah’s role in the July...

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