David S. Cohen

April 10, 2014 | |

Kuwait’s Embattled Justice Minister Part of Deeper Terror Finance Problem

A contentious battle over Kuwait’s reported role in terrorism finance is currently playing out in public. Earlier this year, the Kuwaiti Amir appointed a highly questionable figure to run h...

March 30, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

Controversial Kuwaiti Minister Offers to Step Down

Nayef al-Ajmi, Kuwait’s controversial government minister,...

February 10, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz

Negotiations on Iran’s Nuclear Program

Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation...

January 22, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz, Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Gold Rush in Tehran

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will be yucking it up at Davos this week, munching canapés, sh...

January 16, 2014 | |

New Kuwaiti Justice Minister Has Deep Extremist Ties

Officials from over sixty countries gathered in Kuwait City yesterday for a United Nations donor conference, raising ...

December 26, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

Iran’s Turkish Gold Rush

Turkey's Islamist government is being rocked by the most sweeping corruption scandal of its tenure. Roughly two dozen figures, including well-connected business tycoons and the sons of top g...

December 20, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The White House Can’t Have It Both Ways on Iran

Defying a White House veto threat, a bipartisan group of senators rolled out a new Iran sanctions bill Thursday that aims to give America more leverage at the negotiating table in the ongoing nuc...

December 18, 2013 |

FDD Welcomes Bipartisan Senate Sanctions Bill Against Iran

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON -- In an effort to hold Iran accountable to the nuclear agreement it reached last month in Geneva with the P5+1 countries, a bipart...

May 22, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Time for the EU to Outlaw All of Hezbollah

The European Union moved closer on Monday to sanctioning the Lebanese te...

May 22, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from al Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria

Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda’s operations inside Iran and Syria. These ar...

April 29, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Canadian Terror Plot Linked to al Qaeda in Iran

Canadian police officials have linked the plotting of two Muslim men to destroy a Toronto passenger train to al Qaeda's network inside Iran. The two suspects, neither of whom are Canadian ci...

April 24, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

US Targets Hezbollah’s Financial Arms in Lebanon

A move by the United States to designate two Lebanese exchange agencies as primary money launderers seeks to prevent Hezbollah from abusing the country’s financial system, said David Cohen,...

February 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Doesn’t Europe Think Hezbollah Is a Terror Group?

The rift over counterterrorism strategy between the United States and its trans-Atlantic partners will likely be on display next week in Brussels, where European foreign ministers are slated to d...

January 25, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal Democract and Chronicle |

Hezbollah’s Terrorism a Threat to Upstate NY

Are residents in Rochester and Buffalo vulnerable to terror attacks from the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization? Upstate New York Congressman Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, co-sponsored a bill with hi...

January 2, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Joe Lieberman’s Legacy: The Battle Against Hezbollah

European officials can and must do more to root out the terrorist group.

December 27, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama Needs to Push EU to Ban Hezbollah

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I., Conn.) sponsored a resolution earlier this month urging “the President to make available to European allies and the Europe...

October 25, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

America’s Enemies Are Getting Away with Murder

Fecklessness in response to attacks on Americans is a bipartisan tradition.

October 22, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Joint Iran and al-Qaida Operation Declares War

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comparison between al-Qaida and Iran during his September 27 address to the UN has garnered greater urgency since the US Treasury department on Thursday...

October 18, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Swiss Cheese

The EU's "strong" sanctions on Iran are full of holes, but might they be enough to prevent the U.S. going to war?

October 18, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Treasury ‘Further Exposes’ Iran-al Qaeda Relationship

The US Treasury Department announced today that it has designated Adel Radi Saqr al Wahabi al Harbi, who is "a...