Badness personified
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.
Central Intelligence Agency
Badness Personified
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.
Op-eds
Islamism and Jihadism
Episode 22 | The view of one Muslim — and former CIA analyst.
Foreign Podicy
Russia’s Hacks
An excerpt from the op-ed follows: Given the attention...
Op-eds
Extremism and Fragile States
Episode 21
Foreign Podicy
The Pastor is Not the Only U.S. Hostage in Turkey
Turkish-American relations are at a boiling point. This month, the United States not only ...
Op-eds
The Preeminent Challenge
The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...
Op-eds
Iran’s Long, Bloody History of Terror and Espionage in Europe
The Iranian regime’s potent espionage and assassination network in Europe has operated largely without interruption since the Islamic revolution of 1979. European governments have caught an...
Op-eds
The Brunson farce
Turkey’s indictment against Pastor Andrew Brunson reveals why charges against him shouldn’t hold up in any legitimate court.
Op-eds
Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal, and to relentlessly pressure the Islamic Republic, has elicited a predictable response. Critics cite history, particularly a count...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy
Western Nationals in Turkish Prisons
Monographs
A Historian in Full
The university flag at Princeton is flying at half-mast. It’s an appropriate tribute to Bernard Lewis, who died on May 19, less than a fortnight from his 102nd birthday. Professor Lewis was...
Op-eds
The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...
Op-eds
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
It was surely Barack Obama’s profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled his nuclear diplomacy and made his atomic accord with Iran the worst arms-control agre...
Op-eds
Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?
On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...
Op-eds
Is Trump Ready to Dump Pakistan?
As U.S. ambassador to Pakistan more than a decade ago, Ryan Crocker spent much of his time trying to convince the government in Islamabad to take action against militants moving freely inside the...
Op-eds
With John Bolton, the Iran deal ‘nixers’ have an upper hand over the ‘fixers’
My long-standing hope for a fix to the fatal flaws of Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal may have just gone on life support with the appointment of John Bolton as President Trump’s nati...
Op-eds
Turkish Prosecutor Seeks Life Sentence for U.S. Pastor
A Turkish prosecutor today demanded a life sentence for U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson on charges of &...
Policy Briefs
Pompeo faces challenges from North Korea, Syria and Iran
President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he has removed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and will nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to head the State Department will likely leave Pompeo...
Op-eds
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...