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June 20, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: June 20, 2024

Today’s Issue: | Hezbollah Publishes Reconnaissance Drone Video of Sites in Northern Israel, Says More Videos Forthcoming | IDF Chief of Staff: Military Is at ‘A Very High Level of Readiness’ | Hassan...

June 19, 2024 | |

Hezbollah Threatens Cyprus Over Israel Links

Hezbollah warned Cyprus on June 19 against helping Israel in any future war in Lebanon, signaling that the Mediterranean island nation could also face a terrorist attack. Amid...

November 12, 2023 | Cleo Paskal, Col. Grant Newsham

Australia: Neo-imperialist or climate change saviour?

Australia gets a remarkable set of rights from the Pacific island country of Tuvalu in exchange for things it can mostly find a reason to not do if it wants.

August 20, 2023 | Cleo Paskal |

In sign of weakness, pro-PRC Solomons PM avoids meeting US Congress members

PM Sogavare avoided meeting a US Congressional Delegation that was visiting the country. Not a single government minister met the two Members of Congress during their time in the capital, Honiara.

December 20, 2021 | Shany Mor, Enia Krivine

Stick to status quo on Jerusalem consulate

“There is no room for another American Consulate in Jerusalem,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said last month . The problem is that’s exactly what Joe Biden promised during his presidential...

December 17, 2021 | Alexander B. Gray, Cleo Paskal

The Solomon Islands Crisis Shows America Needs a New Pacific Strategy

The U.S. has been largely subcontracting its foreign policy for many Pacific Islands to Australia and New Zealand. That needs to change.

December 3, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s Council of Europe Voting Rights and Membership at Risk

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe announced today its decision to begin infringement procedures against Turkey for Ankara’s refusal to release Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala despite...

January 3, 2020 | Tony Badran |

U.S. Kills Qassem Soleimani

Donald Trump cuts off Iran’s terror arm in Iraq, while Israel braces for Iranian retaliation

November 14, 2019 | Eric S. Edelman, David J. Kramer

Erdoğan’s Undeserving and Underwhelming Visit to DC

Trump’s ongoing bromance with Turkey’s authoritarian leader notwithstanding, Congress and the Administration must act to make clear that the United States isn’t giving Erdoğan a blank check to act in the Middle East.

June 2, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel allows al-Quds Day march amid rising Jew-hatred

Hezbollah participates in event calling for Israel’s destruction.

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.

November 5, 2018 | David May, Nicole Salter

Is Bibi’s Oman Visit an Omen?

The possibility that the country of five million could be a peace broker.

February 27, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia

Preventing Radicalization at Home

In furtherance of a 2015 campaign promise, the Liberals recently launched the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, which “work(s) with youth, communities, acad...

May 6, 2016 | Orde Kittrie

Iran Still Owes $53 Billion in Unpaid U.S. Court Judgments to American Victims of Iranian Terrorism

FDD Research Memo

June 15, 2015 | |

Don’t Look to Iran to Cave on Nukes

Ever since Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) was established in 1989 it has been in charge of strategic decision-mak­ing in the Islamic Republic, includ­ing the direct...

March 11, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Ayatollah in Winter

The Lord works in mysterious ways. That sentence does not appear in the Koran. Nor, actually, is it found in the Bible. But in recent days it has probably occurred to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran...

January 24, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

An Iranian Moderate Exposed

“To my esteemed enemy, Mohammad-Javad Zarif.” Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations remains very proud of this dedication in his copy of Henry Kissinger’s ...

January 8, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Bombshell

The Washington Post ...

May 16, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Petraeus’s Objection to the Benghazi Talking Points

After nearly two days of editing, then CIA director David Petraeus was sent the revised Benghazi talking points on September 15, 2012. He was less than impressed, to put it mildly. &ldqu...

April 22, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

AQAP Confirms Death of Commander, Charges Father and Son with ‘Spying’ for US

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has confirmed that a local commander linked to a 2008 attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a was killed in a drone strike last November. The terror group accuse...