Counterterrorism

April 14, 2026 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Plot to Kill Damascus Rabbi Highlights Hezbollah’s Goal To Destabilize Syria

During former dictator Bashar al-Assad’s rule, Hezbollah used Syria as a launchpad for weapons smuggling into Lebanon. Today, even after the fall of Assad’s regime, the group is still working to destabilize...

April 13, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

How the UAE Is Cracking Down on Illicit Iranian Finance

Iran’s attacks on the Gulf state have created an opportunity to starve Iran’s proxy network of funds.

April 10, 2026 | Toby Dershowitz

Costa Rica Designates IRGC and Iranian Proxies as Terrorist Groups

Costa Rica has announced the designation as terror groups of three of Iran’s key regional proxies as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the bedrock of the Tehran regime. President...

April 1, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen |

600 Euros and a Lighter

Iran’s Low-Cost Terror War on European Soil

April 1, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

Why we have a TSA and a DHS

And the jihadis that make them necessary

March 20, 2026 | David Daoud |

Kuwait and UAE report disrupting domestic Hezbollah cells

Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates claimed to have disrupted several terror cells linked to Hezbollah over the past week. Both Persian Gulf countries alleged that their security forces identified networks...

March 19, 2026 | |

IDF Strikes Key Bridges Over Lebanon’s Litani River Used by Hezbollah

IDF Hits Bridges Used by Hezbollah: The IDF said on March 18 that it had struck at least two bridges crossing the Litani River in Lebanon. According to Israel, “Hezbollah …...

March 17, 2026 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Blacklisting the Brotherhood

The Trump administration made history on November 24, 2025, when it issued an executive order calling for the U.S. government to designate “certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist...

February 10, 2026 | Bill Roggio, Edmund Fitton-Brown

The West’s greatest threat is still al Qaeda

February 15, 2024 | Craig Singleton |

Securing Communications Networks from Foreign Adversaries

April 3, 2023 | John Hardie, Peter Doran

Ruble Rumble

Offensive and Defensive Measures to Defeat Russia in the Economic Domain

July 26, 2022 | David Kilcullen |

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

January 14, 2021 | Tony Badran |

Lebanon

April 27, 2016 | David Weinberg

Obama is Right: The Gulf Arabs Ride Free on Terrorism

President Obama missed the last real opportunity of his administration to urge the Arab Gulf monarchies to finally adopt a no-tolerance rule toward all terrorist groups and to end the inexcusable...

June 11, 2012 | Steven Miller The Long War Journal

Study Shows Saudi Ambivalence on Radicalism

On May 27, an airstrike by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northeastern Afghanistan killed Sakhr al Taifi, a Saudi citizen and al Qaeda's deputy commander for Afghanist...

November 4, 2011 | Small Wars Journal

COIN is Dead. Long Live COIN?

By Bill Ardolino On a warm August afternoon, two dozen US and Afghan soldiers trudged through sticky corn fields to the village of Majiles in the contentious district of Sabari...

August 9, 2011 |

The SEAL Tragedy

In the WSJ, Max Boot has an insightful, and at times moving, account of the failed mission this weeken...

June 28, 2011 |

The al Qaeda- Taliban Connection

Obama takes his eye off the ball.

June 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

Mr. Bush Goes to Africa

Next week, President Bush, accompanied by his wife, Laura, will embark on a five-country tour across the African continent, with stops planned in Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia. Whil...

June 2, 2010 |

The Gaza Flotilla Decoy for Iranian Missiles to Hezbollah?

"De-Blockading" Hamas? At first glance, the takeover by the Israeli Navy of the "humanitarian flotilla" heading towards Gaza is just one more of the disputed crises between Israel and its foes. As in all previous incidents, the spiral of...