President Biden has spent his three years in office making it clear to Tehran’s terrorist regime that America won’t make it pay a price for attacking our allies, bankrolling Hamas and expanding Iranian nuclear capabilities...
February 24, the day Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, is going down as a turning point in modern history. As we hit the war’s 100-day mark on Friday, one of...
During my eight years in Moscow, the annual May 9 Victory over Nazism Parade was a huge, nationally televised extravaganza. Journalists parsed President Vladimir Putin’s speech. Military attaches from...
There is a saying that you can push a meek and mild Ukrainian all the way until his forehead touches the ground. Then, he arises a Cossack. With Russia’s frontal attack on Ukraine, the foreheads of 40...
In the future, we will remember Feb. 24 alongside 9/11 and Dec. 7. Although Russia’s invasion is not a bolt from the blue like Pearl Harbor or the attack on the World Trade Center, many people did not...
The Olympics were about to start in Beijing. Thousands of miles to the west, Russia was wrapping up a big military exercise in a border region. Across the border, women and children were evacuated from...
Cape Verde’s constitutional court issued a ruling on September 7 paving the way for the extradition of Alex Saab, a U.S.-designated Colombian-born businessman whom U.S. prosecutors indicted in 2019 for...
Biden wants ‘stable and predictable’ relations with Russia. Is that possible?
No deal is perfect, but any improvement should not be downplayed when it makes the volatile Middle East more peaceful and win-win.
(Washington, D.C.) – Alireza Nader has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a senior fellow focusing on Iran and U.S. policy in the Middle East. Throughout his career, Nader has advised...
Illicit exports of crude oil from Iran to Syria spiked in the first two weeks of October to roughly 150,000 barrels per day (bpd), more than twice the reported high for previous two-week periods this...
FDD senior advisor on science and nonproliferation Olli Heinonen joined Bloomberg TV to discuss Secretary Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang following the Singapore summit. Read the i...
A Turkish court refused yesterday to release U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson, detained for 21 months on...
Anthony Ruggiero, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses the new sanctions imposed on North Korea and if they'll be effective. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets:...
Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Arab Spring when a young Tunisian, Muhammad Bouazizi, set himself ablaze in 2010 to protest the regime’s seizure of his vege...
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The unfolding situation in Iraq has reportedly reignited the debate insi...
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The Far East is as inscrutable as the Middle East.