Al Qaeda is Thriving in Syria’s Chaos
n the shadow of ISIS’ barbaric rise in Syria and Iraq, another familiar terror group is experiencing a quiet renaissance: al Qaeda. Al Qaeda officially entered Syria’s civil...
Al-Nusra Front
Washington Post Op-Ed Shills for Hezbollah Ally
There’s an elephant in the room in a recent Washington PostOp-Ed, “Can Lebanon survive Syria, Israel—and President Trump,” which ...
Op-eds
Lebanese PM Saad Hariri Joins With Hezbollah to Con Donald Trump
The day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met ...
Op-eds
Trump Got This One Right
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump was shown a disturbing video of Syrian rebels beheading a child near the city of Aleppo. It had caused a minor stir in the press as the fighters belonged...
Op-eds
Lebanon Is Another Name for Hezbollah
During his joint press conference with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday,...
Op-eds
Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers
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Legislative Testimonies
‘For Erdogan, personal interest trumps national interest’: Former Turkish Member of Parliament
HNFP: What were the objective conditions that led to the success of the ‘March for Justice’? Is this the beginning of a sustainable opposition against the Justice and Developm...
Op-eds
Unfinished Business
Donald Trump is fond of claiming that his predecessor mismanaged America's role in the world. "And I have to just say that the world is a mess. I inherited a mess," the president noted durin...
Op-eds
By Hosting Hamas, Qatar is Whitewashing Terror
After getting booted from their first two hotels in Qatar over concerns of violating U.S. terror finance sanct...
Op-eds
Syria: Options Remain If America is Willing to Take Them
One of the biggest foreign policy challenges that President-elect Donald Trump will face is Syria. Here are how things look on the ground today and some of the scenarios the new American presiden...
Op-eds
Islamic State Networks in Turkey
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Monographs
What’s Really Behind Trump’s Laptop Ban
More than 15 years after the September 11 hijackings, the U.S. government has issued yet another warning about airline security. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced ne...
Op-eds
Terror Financiers “Operating Openly” in Qatar and Kuwait
A White House readout following President Trump’s p...
Policy Briefs
The Final Obama Scandal
Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes. Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...
Op-eds
Qatar and Terror Finance
FDD Press
Monographs
Trump Wants to Shake Up the World Order? Here’s Where He Should Start
The specifics have often fluctuated, but the core of Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision has remained steady. He believes, as the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Wright has noted, &ld...
Op-eds
Al-Qaida on the Rise in Syria
The group that launched the Sept. 11 attacks, waged insurgent war against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, catalyzed extremist movements in places like Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, and was s...
Op-eds
As ISIS’s Caliphate Crumbles, Jihadist Tactics Are Evolving
The inability to hold territory creates “ISIS 2.0,” as a senior Middle Eastern intelligence official puts it. “It means that ISIS adapts and begins to look more like Al-Qaeda,&r...
Op-eds
FBI’s most wanted terrorists 15 years later: The ones who got away
Fifteen years ago this month, then-President George W. Bush responded to 9/11 by publicly placing 22 top terrorists on an FBI most wanted list. In the decade and half since, more of the original...
Op-eds
The Al Qaeda Threat Grows
Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, the al Qaeda threat is growing. Al Qaeda has the capacity to attempt a mass casualty attack inside the U.S. and Europe today. Many...