Central Asia

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

Biden’s left banker

A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

Remember Lepanto

A great battle in a war not yet ended

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

FDD provides testimony on Afghanistan

Biden, Congress Should Not Give the Taliban and al-Qaeda a Seaport

Iranian officials announced last week that Tehran would continue to allow road and rail commercial shipping between Afghanistan and Iran’s Chabahar Port following Kabul’s fall to the Taliban. This development...

What We Know—and Don’t Know—About ISIS-K

The group has claimed responsibility for the bombing outside the Kabul airport.

The Situation in Afghanistan Is Much Worse Than You Realize

The U.S. military is downplaying the Taliban’s gains, and the U.S. and U.N. are pretending there is a viable peace process.

What Happened at the Biden-Putin Summit? Not Much.

The two discussed Afghanistan, cyberattacks, and more.