Central Asia

Iran’s Escalating Threats: Assessing U.S. Policy Toward Iran’s Malign Activities

Israel’s long, hot summer

The Jewish state faces intensifying threats and internal divisions

U.S. designates Islamic State financier in Somalia

On Thursday, the United States government sanctioned Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the financial emir for the Islamic State’s Somali Province (or Islamic State-Somalia, ISS). In this capacity, Yusuf was responsible...

Renewing NATO

Peace requires deterrence which requires military might

The fantasy of multipolarity

It would lead to brave new world order dominated by Chinese Communists

FDD’s Long War Journal’s response to Zalmay Khalilzad’s Twitter thread

In a brief Twitter thread responding to a recent article from The Washington Post, Zalmay Khalilzad, one of the key architects of the 2020 Doha Agreement that set the stage for the collapse...

Israel Opens First Permanent Embassy in Turkmenistan

Latest Developments Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen inaugurated Israel’s first embassy in Turkmenistan during a visit to the Central Asian state on April 20. Cohen is the first Israeli foreign...

U.S. Helps NATO Ally Albania Combat Iranian Cyberattacks

Latest Developments American cyber forces concluded a three-month deployment to Albania to aid its government after an Iranian cyberattack, U.S. Cyber Command announced on Thursday. At the request of its...

Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran

Targeting Tiandy

The Case for Blacklisting a Chinese Tech Firm Tied to Crackdowns on Uyghurs and Iranian Protestors

Tehran’s $1 Trillion Deal: An Updated Forecast of Iran’s Financial Windfall From a New Nuclear Agreement

European and American diplomats say negotiations over the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran have reached their final stage. As a series of previous FDD publications have shown, the new nuclear deal would...

Iran’s policy toward the Caucasus and Central Asia

Excerpt Much of the analysis on Iranian foreign policy focuses on both Iran’s positonality in relation to the Middle East, and its claim to the mantle of Shia Islamic leadership. However, a more detailed...

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

Ayman al Zawahiri is alive; Taliban and Al Qaeda “remain close,” UN reports

Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of Al Qaeda who served as Osama bin Laden’d deputy on 9/11, “is confirmed to be alive” and is “communicating freely,” according to a report from the United Nations’...

Equipping U.S. Partners in Cyberspace is a Must

As the Russia-Ukraine war continues to rage, the resilience of the Ukrainian critical infrastructure in the face of Russian cyber assaults has been an unexpected bright spot. After the damage Russia has inflicted on...

Turkistan Islamic Party leader celebrates Eid in Afghanistan

Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the head of the Al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Turkistan Islamic Party, celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Afghanistan. Abdul Haq’s public presence in Afghanistan directly contradicts...

Energy in Conflict: The Case of the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan War

Excerpt With the rise in frequency of hybrid warfare, combatants in various conflicts are increasingly targeting domestic energy infrastructure and energy supply flows.1 In conventional warfare, militaries...

How to Prevent China from Coming to Russia’s Rescue

With war raging in Europe, the already fraught U.S.-China relationship has reached a critical juncture. So far, the White House has refrained from issuing any ultimatums to Beijing even as it tacitly backs...

How “Never again!” became “never mind”

To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin