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July 16, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey is a chance for my home country to heal

President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey, a longtime NATO ally that has increasingly strained relations with the United States and other members...

December 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

U.S. ambassador urges inquiry of German magazine’s anti-Americanism

Der Spiegel faced criticism for its bias against the Jewish state.

September 30, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Iran Rising

 In his...

February 3, 2014 |

Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die

It began as an action movie, transformed into a slasher flick, and ended as a courtroom procedural. The criminal protagonists were despicable — though not in equal measure. On July...

October 18, 2013 | |

Moscow’s American Uranium

By Matt Baker The state-owned Russian nuclear energy company that built Iran’s nuclear reactor in Bushehr is about to finalize a transaction that will give Russia absolute...

March 21, 2013 | |

FDD Applauds Bipartisan Syria Legislation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC -- During the week marking the two year anniversary of the crisis in Syria, Congress introduced two bil...

January 10, 2013 |

Al Gore’s Al Jazeera Sellout

It was July 18th, 2008, the birthday of Samir Kuntar, and so Al Jazeera naturally had a birthday celebration. Fortuitously, Kuntar had been...

January 2, 2013 | |

FDD Praises New Iran Sanctions in Defense Authorization Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies preparing to enter negotiations over Iran’s unlawful nuclear a...

December 20, 2012 | |

FDD Commends Congress for New Iran Sanctions

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies soon to enter negotiations over Iran’s un...

September 24, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US Senators Urge the EU to Outlaw Hezbollah

A bipartisan group of 76 US senators sent a mid-September letter urging the EU to include Hezbollah on its terror list. The Republican and Democratic senators wrote to Catherine As...

June 22, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz |

Threats From Cyber to Terror Supplant Cold War’s Dangers

The U.S. is searching for ways to deter, defend against and respond to ever-increasing cyber attacks and more diverse terrorist threats, even as it tries to cut spending and finance weapons conce...

April 27, 2012 |

Virginia Detainee Law is Dangerously Unconstitutional

Co-authored by Charles D. Stimson The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in par...

April 10, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

What Obama Must Do in Syria After the Failed Annan Plan

A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) The Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people continues unabated,...

March 12, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

On Syria, Follow McCain

Here’s to John McCain, leading from the front. Last week, the Arizona senator cut through all the White House doubletalk on the Syrian uprising and demanded a more active U.S. policy, inclu...

March 1, 2012 | Rebeccah Heinrichs Roll Call

Obama Suffering From Defense Rhetoric Gap

The nation’s top military official concedes that President Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Pentagon’s budget will leave the United States with a force that assumes more risk and...

February 29, 2012 | Rebeccah Heinrichs The Hill |

Obama Broke Promise to Senate on Defense Spending

In selling his New START treaty with Russia, President Obama promised senators he was committed to improving U.S. missile defenses and modernizing America's aging nuclear arsenal. E...

January 23, 2012 |

Hillary’s Misguided Space Arms Control

Pact could undermine American security in the name of cooperation.

January 12, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Can EU Oil Sanctions Create a Turning Point in Iran?

The significance of international sanctions on Iran took on new prominence this week, after a group of US senators sent a letter on Tuesday to Catherine Ashton, the EU's c...

November 11, 2011 | Mark Dubowitz

U.S. Policy in Syria

Written Testimony for the Record Contributors to this testimony included: Mark Dubowitz (FDD), Reuel Marc Gerecht (FDD), Tony Badran (FDD), Ammar Abdulhamid (FDD), Jo...

November 8, 2011 | FPI/FDD |

Towards a Post-Assad Syria

    Towards a Post-Assad Syria: Options for the United States and Like-Minded Nations to Further Assist the Anti-Regime Syrian Opposition A Discussion Paper Prepared by the Foreign...