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December 9, 2024 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Who liberated Damascus? Unpacking the Southern Operations Room’s emergence

The Southern Operations Room (SOR), a coalition of opposition groups, was announced on December 6, 2024. In its inaugural statement, the SOR called on the international community to...

May 24, 2023 | Craig Singleton, Cate Kanapathy

Xi Doubles Down on Ideological Indoctrination at the Expense of China’s Economic Recovery

In several speeches and policy pronouncements this spring, Chinese leader Xi Jinping outlined plans for a sweeping indoctrination drive aimed at tightening his hold on power. Xi’s declarations re-affirm...

September 7, 2022 | David Shedd, Ivana Stradner

Waging Psychological War Against Russia

The U.S. has a real opportunity to erode Putin’s propaganda.

January 5, 2022 | David Maxwell |

North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Test: A 6 Step Strategy To Respond

At the end of the Worker’s Party of Korea 4th Plenary Meeting of the party’s 8th Central Committee, the party issued a statement with some 18,400 words, none of which included a reference to the hostile...

October 8, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

China and Russia Blame America for a ‘New Cold War’

The two countries continue to bolster each other’s hand against the U.S. and its allies.

July 8, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Xi Jinping Doesn’t Want to Admit He’s an Autocrat

His rhetoric is a mishmash of different concepts, some directly at odds with one another.

May 27, 2021 | Mathew Ha |

U.S.-ROK Alliance Creates a New Cyber Working Group at Summit

President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed at their first summit on May 21 to deepen cyber cooperation by creating a new bilateral cyber working group to confront ransomware and other...

March 12, 2018 | Grant Rumley

The Next Palestinian President?

If there is any dynamism within Palestinian politics today, it’s in the discussion about who will eventually replace the aging Mahmoud Abbas, the octogenarian President who has reigned for...

April 24, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

The Goal of the Latest Palestinian Hunger Strike

Last week, over a thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israel launched a hunger strike under the leadership of Marwan Barghouti, the mastermind of Fatah’s terror campaign during the second int...

March 9, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

New Blood for Fatah and Hamas

Palestinian politicians tend to view term limits as casual suggestions. This is especially true in the case of the two largest Palestinian parties: the nominally secular Fatah, which manages the...

February 15, 2017 | |

Meet Mahmoud al-Aloul, Abbas’ New Deputy

Co-written by Evan Charney Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

September 29, 2015 | Grant Rumley |

The Palestinians Are Facing a Serious Generational Crisis

Amidst clashes between Palestinians and Israeli policem...

July 8, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Street

Since the eruption of violence across Arab communities in Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank last week, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has endeavored to straddle a fine line between pr...

September 29, 2008 |

Biden’s Baggage

Tiny Delaware barely registers in the Electoral College, but Barack Obama selected Joseph R. Biden Jr., the state’s senior senator, as his running mate. There’s one explanation: forei...