Barcelona

November 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Italy Bars PFLP Terrorist And BDS Advocate Leila Khaled

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled was barred from entering Italy on Wednesday on the grounds that she lacked a valid visa. Olga Deutsch, Europe Desk director at the Jerusalem-...

October 3, 2017 |

IS Using Front Companies to Support Terrorism

As the Islamic State (IS) has been beaten back in Iraq and ...

August 30, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

CBS Interactive

Terrorists rammed a van into a crowded tourist spot in Barcelona, killing 13 people. VP of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Jonathan Schanzer and CBS News Security Consultan...

August 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Palestinian Terrorist Group Campaigns For Bundestag

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an EU and US classified terrorist entity responsible the murders of scores of Israelis, seeks to enter the German Bundestag in the September 24...

August 23, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Replacing patriotism with tribalism

Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...

August 21, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Happening Now

FDD Senior VP Jonathan Schanzer talks about Barcelona attack on Happening Now....

June 28, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israeli Lawmaker Urges Spain to Stop Funds for BDS NGOs

The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid launched dual criticisms on Wednesday of Spanish government funds for anti-Israel NGOs in the country’s parliament in Madri...

May 12, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Controversy over Palestinian Plane Hijacker’s Planned Appearance in Spain

The Spanish government – and the city of Barcelona – are under fire for failing to thwart plans for PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled to speak at a radical book festival that starts in Spai...

March 6, 2008 |

Why AFRICOM is Critical for Our Security Interests


This week I thought it useful to update readers on developments with some of the stories that have been previously reported in this column.

February 21, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Violence, Islamism, and Terror in the Sahel

Earlier this month, by coincidence, as President George W. Bush made the announcement in Washington that the United States Department of Defense would be establishing a unified combatant command...

March 17, 2004 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Spanish Lessons: Iraqis Get the Message; So Do the Terrorists

The other night, I attended a reception at the Embassy of Iraq. Virtually all Iraq's communities were represented: Sunni, Shia and Kurd, Muslim and Christian. There were women in modest veil...