What would a maritime security force mean for the Red Sea?
The Iran-backed Houthi attacks have only escalated in the past week by firing on Eilat, having begun in October to match the Hamas massacre.
Danish
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Memos
The Strongman Cometh
Why Erdoğan suddenly has a problem with Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
Op-eds
The U.S. Should Sanction Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees
Even though the PRC has American blood on its hands, as well as that of Israelis, the group has somehow escaped U.S. sanctions.
Op-eds
Hit Ayatollah Khamenei in His Pocketbook
The Trump administration already has offered rhetorical support to Iran’s antigovernment protesters. Now, nearly a month after the demonstrations began, how can the U.S. provide material he...
Op-eds
Berlin Mayor Rebuked Over Imam’s Call to Kill Jews and Stone Women
A Danish imam convicted for inciting hate after he preached for the extermination of Jews during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014 appeared on Friday in Berlin at a radical mosque,...
Op-eds
Muslims in America
One of the most striking features of the British cemetery at Gallipoli is the attention given to honoring the diversity of the dead. Final farewells from loved ones carved upon stone plaques line...
Op-eds
A Historian Turns 100
Twenty years ago, Bernard Lewis and I were walking along the Thames. We’d just seen a dreary English take on naughty French theater, which provoked remembrances of Paris in the 1930s when L...
Op-eds
Obama’s in Bed With the Pope, Tony Blair, Ruth Benedict, the UN and Most Universities
There was nothing particularly new about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast the other day, and most of the opinion makers and shapers who feigned outrage are late to...
Op-eds
Reaction to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre Shows How We’ve Lost Our Free-Speech Spine
A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Iran Expert Ali Alfoneh as Senior Fellow
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomes...
Press Releases
What Happened in Cairo
On the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an Egyptian mob stormed the U.S. emba...
Op-eds
Navy SEALs Free 2 Western Hostages in Somalia
US Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six conducted a successful nighttime raid in Somalia to free an American woman and a Danish man being held by kidnappers in Somalia....
Op-eds
Muslims Attacked!
It’s funny, in an Orwellian way, that in Europe there are now militant groups with such cutesy names as Sharia4Belgium and Sharia4Holland. Less funny, but perhaps more Orwellian, is this: L...
Op-eds
NYT: Bin Laden’s Courier Tied to Pakistani-Backed Terror Group
Contacts between Harakat ul Mujahedin (HUM), a terrorist organization long sponsored by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, and Osama bin Laden's most trusted courier have...
Op-eds
State of Denial
Musharraf's latest move has transformed him into a liability.
Op-eds
American-born Shabaab commander releases recruitment tape
An American-born member of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, has released a propaganda tape that is aimed at recruiting Westerners to wage war against their home countries and establ...
Op-eds
New Charges Against Headley for 2008 Mumbai Attacks
In October, 49-year-old Chicago man David Headley (born Daood Gilani) was arrested for his role in planning terrorist attacks against the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and two individuals asso...
Op-eds
Kurt Westergaard, Free Speech, and Leftist Refuseniks
Has Jack Layton converted to Islam? That's what activist Tarek Fatah...
Op-eds
Pirates of Somalia: The Curse of the Failed State
On April 4, MY Le Ponant, an 850-ton three-masted luxury sailing yacht owned by CMA CGM S.A., a French firm headed by Lebanese-born businessman Jacques Saadé that is the third-largest container shipping company in the world, was en route from the Seychelles to the Mediterranean when it was seized in international waters in the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates. A week later, after the owners had paid a ransom reported to be around $2 million, Le Ponant docked at the port of Eyl in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland and the 30 crew members – twenty-two Frenchmen, six Filipinos, a Cameroonian, and a Ukrainian – were released. French forces, however, tracked the attackers to the nearby fishing village of Jariban where helicopter-borne commandos disabled the escape vehicle with sniper fire and seized six of what is thought to have been an original band of twelve fugitives. The six prisoners were flown to Paris where they were arraigned before a French court on charges of theft, hijacking, and hostage-taking.