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November 4, 2024 | |

‘An Effective Solution’: Turkey Pushes for Arms Embargo Against Israel

Turkey Calls for Halting Weapons Shipments to Israel: Turkey submitted a letter — cosigned by 52 countries, among them Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia — to the United Nations calling for...

October 31, 2024 | Bill Roggio |

Al-Qaeda: suspicions of a UK attack and operations in Syria

October 19, 2024 | Caleb Weiss |

Al Qaeda’s da’wah campaign in West Africa

Over this month, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch for West Africa, has publicized its da’wah (proselytizing) activities in local communities in Mali and Burkina...

October 16, 2024 | Toby Dershowitz, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Iran Should Stay on the Global Terror Finance and Money Laundering Blacklist

On October 21, the plenary of the Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, will convene in Paris. Should the organization that sets global standards for countering money laundering and terror finance...

October 15, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman in Cairo to discuss Gaza, Lebanon, Red Sea

Historically, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were the two pillars of stability for the region, and both are friends of the United States.

October 9, 2024 | David Adesnik |

Bernie Sanders and AOC Mark October 7 Anniversary with False Accusations Against Israel

One year to the day after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 men, women, and children — including 46 Americans — in southern Israel, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) lashed...

October 2, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with American diplomacy

Our enemies aren’t interested in “win-win solutions”

September 25, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Iran on the March: Restoring Deterrence and Stability in the Middle East

A Response By Richard Goldberg

September 25, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Israel sends beepers into the battle with Hezbollah

While Biden sounds another retreat

September 23, 2024 | Edmund Fitton-Brown |

The Houthis have challenged the Rules-Based International System and must be defeated

In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to...

September 18, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them

Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...

September 18, 2024 | Caleb Weiss |

Al Qaeda strikes the Malian capital

The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s West African branch, claimed responsibility for a coordinated assault in Mali’s capital city of Bamako yesterday. The attack comes as JNIM...

September 13, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Afghanistan and Gaza: Tragedy and farce

You wonder why a Hamas rapist who gets what he deserves is reinvented as an innocent civilian murdered as part of a “genocide,” while Afghan women are transformed into chattels and slaves, and the world remains silent.

September 12, 2024 | Tzvi Kahn |

Hamas murder of Israeli Hostages threatens Canadian interests

Only a resounding Hamas defeat backed by the West can persuade Iran that its grisly agenda stands no chance of success.

September 11, 2024 | Will Selber, Bill Roggio

After 9/11, We Went to War Against the Terrorists. The Terrorists Won.

We retreated. They survived. And we’re deluding ourselves otherwise.

September 11, 2024 | Bradley Bowman |

Seeking Certainty in an Uncertain Middle East

As Americans remember this week the victims of the September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terror attacks on our country and Israelis mark more than 11 months since the Hamas terror attack, it is worth taking stock...

September 11, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Twenty-three years into the long war

The threat matrix keeps expanding

August 30, 2024 | Bill Roggio |

When did the US lose Afghanistan?

August 15, 2021, was the day Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, and the US lost the war. Or was it?  After following the war for over two decades, it’s become clear that Afghanistan wasn’t lost in...

August 29, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

Syria’s Assad Rebuffs Erdogan’s Effort to Normalize Ties

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the country’s parliament on August 25 that initiatives to revive relations with Turkey had not yielded “any results worth mentioning despite the seriousness and...

August 23, 2024 | Haisam Hassanein |

Saudi Official Views of Hamas

It is common these days in the Arab world to hear that Riyadh isn’t supporting the Palestinians enough, a comment on the noticeable shift in Saudi official views of Hamas since its October 7 invasion...