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October 19, 2020 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The IRGC runs for high office in Tehran

It’s not every day that a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization throws his hat into the ring for president, not even in the Islamic Republic of...

September 17, 2020 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

If Biden, Then What, on Iran?

Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” wrote Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man. Such sentiment describes perfectly the lingering adherents of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA....

August 12, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How Effective is Russia’s Disinformation?

Let's look at the numbers.

July 22, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Mike Pompeo’s fight for unalienable rights

The Human Rights Establishment wants him out of the marketplace of ideas

January 18, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Trump rejects the fake separation between Iran and its militias

No longer playing Iran's game

October 21, 2019 | Mikhael Smits  |

The companies we keep

“I have tried to help the people of the world to make it a little better,” wrote James Naismith, basketball’s inventor, in 1918, reflecting on a life of Christian education and athletics. He would...

June 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pompeo Urges Germany To Follow Britain’s Lead in Outlawing Hezbollah

The German government ignored an urgent plea from the country’s Jewish community.

May 31, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel Refuses to Outlaw Hezbollah, Snubbing German Jews After Kippah Row

When asked on Wednesday by The Jerusalem Post numerous times if the German government plans to ban the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization, Merkel and Seehofer refused to answer.

May 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

John Walker Lindh fought for al Qaeda’s pro-Taliban force

John Walker Lindh, an American who fought on the side of the jihadists in Afghanistan both before and after 9/11, was released from prison earlier today. In late 2001, Lindh and his fellow fighters surrendered...

December 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

U.S. ambassador urges inquiry of German magazine’s anti-Americanism

Der Spiegel faced criticism for its bias against the Jewish state.

December 7, 2018 | David May |

The U.N. Gives Palestinian Terrorists a Free Pass

The General Assembly expresses solidarity with the Palestinians by endorsing violence against Israeli civilians.

October 31, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

The Embattled Ecumenical Patriarch Caught Between Russia and Turkey

On October 15, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) announcedits decision to break with the Ecumenical Patriar...

June 12, 2018 | John Cappello |

Kremlin Disinformation Effort Is More Than Just Facebook

Russia’s disinformation campaign isn’t just a marketing problem for Facebook or a series of nuisance bots on Twitter. It’s a concerted effort to not just disrupt Western liberal institutions, bu...

August 14, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Statue not an immigrant beacon

In “Not everyone can join the American nation” (Web, Aug. 8) Clifford May argues that CNN’s Jim Acosta was wrong to say that Emma Lazarus’ poem, “The New Col...

August 9, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Not everyone can join the American Nation

This is a peculiar moment in history, one in which we have come to expect the unexpected. Even so, I was surprised to see this: a reporter and a White House official debating poetry. I&r...

July 25, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Assessing the U.S.-Qatar Relationship

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July 13, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate

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April 27, 2017 | Bill Roggio

Afghanistan’s Terrorist Resurgence: Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Beyond

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March 23, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

What’s Really Behind Trump’s Laptop Ban

More than 15 years after the September 11 hijackings, the U.S. government has issued yet another warning about airline security. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced ne...

March 23, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, John Hannah

In Venezuela’s Toxic Brew, Failed Narco-State Meets Iran-Backed Terrorism

As if the political and economic chaos wracking Venezuela wasn’t worrying enough, a couple of recent stories underscore the potential national security threat brewi...