The real test of Biden’s pro-Kurdish sentiments will be whether the need to maintain pragmatic cooperation with Ankara and Baghdad will ultimately force him to temper his commitment to the Kurds that the mountains are not their only friends.
FDD Research Memo
Last week, CNN reported that President Barack Obama had asked his nation...
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is holding its eleventh presidential election on Friday. It’s all very exciting — just as it was in 1979 when, right after the Iranian Revolution that bro...
“Arming the rebels — that’s an option. You look at and rethink all options. It doesn’t mean you do or you will. . . . It doesn’t mean that th...
In Syria, we are letting Assad slaughter at will
There is one more lesson to draw from Israeli revelations about Syria’s...
When US Vice-President Joe Biden finally got to comment on Iran in his recent speech at the policy conference of the American Israel ...
Thirty years ago, President Reagan realized that MAD was not the best we could do. Do Obama and Hagel now agree?
By LWJ Staff Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces scored a major coup on March 12, breaking up a suspected Haqqani Network terror cell that was hours away...
The Taliban launched suicide attacks today outside the Defense Ministry in Kabul and in Khost province as US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel visited the capital on his first trip to Afghanistan....
Chuck Hagel will be secretary of Defense, and Iran will go nuclear. So much for an all-powerful Israel Lobby.
Advice for Obama and Kerry as they plan their next trips abroad.
Unless Iran abandons its quest for nuclear weapons, there is one certainty in Washington’s policy toward the Islamic Republic: more sanctions. It is also inevitable that the more these econ...