The Myth of Lone-Wolf Terrorism
Co-written with Nathaniel Barr This month, Europe has again been rocked by a series of shocking terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone individuals and claimed in the name of the...
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Playing yesterday’s game: India’s real foreign policy challenges lie in its neighbourhood
The South China Sea is several seas away from us. The NSG membership will happen some time after we (the people and the government) have stopped hyperventilating about it. Instea...
Op-eds
U.S.-Backed ‘Moderate’ Rebels Behead a Child Near Aleppo
Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video. The footage surfaced early Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a...
Op-eds
Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an I...
Op-eds
Bloody Ramadan: How The Islamic State Coordinated A Global Terrorist Campaign
In late May 2016, the Islamic State (ISIL) ...
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Bloomberg
Jamil Jaffer, former senior adviser to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, react to the Turkish co...
Op-eds
ISIS may be on the decline — but beware al Qaeda
Recent attacks inspired or executed by ISIS show how dangerous a militant organization in decline can be. But make no mistake: The group is in a state of decline. ISIS, which is so profi...
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Boko Haram’s Buyer’s Remorse
When Boko Haram pledged loyalty to the Islamic State in March 2015, it seemed to signal that the jihadi world was bending in the direction of the self-proclaimed caliphate. At the time, Boko Hara...
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The FBI director painted a bizarre picture of the man behind the worst mass shooting in US history
The director of the FBI, James Comey, said Monday that Omar Mateen, the man who carried out the worst shooting in US history at a gay nightclub in Orlando, mentioned links to al-Qaida, Hezbollah,...
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Uncovering if Pulse club massacre in Orlando was an ‘ISIS Attack’
Omar Mateen wanted the world to associate his attack at an Orlando nightclub, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, with ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Mateen took a few...
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The Buck Sexton Show
FDD senior fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discusses the death of Bin Laden and the state of al-Qaeda five years later. ...
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Inside Story
FDD senior fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross comments on the five year anniversary of Bin Laden's death. Watch the show...
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How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds Into Its Global Expansion Efforts
Co-written by Bridget Moreng and Nathaniel Barr Even before the dramatic blitzkrieg...
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Despite Coalition Military Gains, No End in Sight in Anti-IS Campaign
The Kurdish Peshmerga commander sat on a couch at his headquarters in Sulaymaniyah. On a nearby table there was a bowl of dried fruit and nuts. Two large sniper rifles lay on the floor by his des...
Op-eds
Who killed more terrorists, Obama or Bush? It depends
Some critics of President Barack Obama take issue with what they see as a cold-hearted attitude toward the threat of terrorism. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace brought up this criticism in an...
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In Race to Capture Syria’s Raqqa, Assad May Have Edge
Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria has shrunk by nearly a quarter in the past few months, but Kurds, Syrian rebels and forces loyal to embattled President Bashar al-Assad have all grabbe...
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Operation Hemorrhage: The Terror Plans to Wreck the West’s Economy
Every European who flies frequently knows the airport in Zaventem, has spent time in the ticketing area that was strewn with blood, limbs, broken glass, battered luggage and other wreckage. ...
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Associated Press TV
FDD senior fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says this may be the first time the same jihadi terrorist cell has been able to carry out two attacks. ...
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Osama bin Laden’s ‘Bookshelf’ Reveals al Qaeda’s Long Game
When 113 new documents recovered in 2011 during the fatal raid on...
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Remember the war in Yemen? The U.S. Air Force is there
Since beginning an air war against in Houthi rebels in Yemen last year, the Saudis and their allies have relied on U.S. tankers to refuel their aircraft in flight. And these missions con...