Donald Trump

June 10, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Berri Sabotages President Trump’s Peace Agenda

Lebanon and Israel signed a historic framework deal in Washington last Wednesday that serves as a clear roadmap to disarm Hezbollah, end the war, and put the two countries on the path to peace....

June 10, 2026 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Susan Soh

Trump Signs Executive Order Addressing Structural Gaps in Trade Enforcement

High tariffs create strong incentives to evade them. More than 40 percent of textile shipments flagged for analysis by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were either “mis-declared or mis-described”...

June 10, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

Crazy rich Qataris

Backers of the Muslim Brotherhood are indoctrinating your kids

June 9, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz |

What Does Winning In Iran Look Like?

June 9, 2026 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey Escalates Tensions in Cyprus

Turkey’s increasingly confrontational posture in the Eastern Mediterranean was on display this week when aircraft carrying European defense ministers to Cyprus were reportedly harassed by Turkish fighter...

June 9, 2026 | Jack Burnham, Daniel Swift

Updated Pentagon List Targets China’s Military-Civil Fusion Program

The Pentagon just fired a warning shot at Beijing — and Wall Street. On June 8, the Pentagon released its updated Section 1260H list, which designates Chinese companies as supporting Beijing’s military-civil...

June 9, 2026 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Spycraft will decide Iran’s fate

Excerpt After four months of war, Israel still has targets to hit. The latest IDF raids, in this increasingly fictional ceasefire, smashed Iranian missile-defense systems and a petrochemical plant in...

June 8, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz |

Iran Resumes War on Israel as Trump Equivocates

Iran resumed ballistic missile attacks on Israel on June 7 for the first time since agreeing to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire two months ago. Despite President Donald Trump’s public calls for restraint,...

June 8, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Why Is Saudi Arabia Circumventing the Lebanese State?

Saudi Arabia's decision to actively undermine diplomacy between Lebanon and Israel, a pathway to peace and disarming Hezbollah, should not be tolerated by the Lebanese.

June 5, 2026 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Trump’s Blockade Is Zeroing Out Iran’s Oil Exports

The Islamic Republic of Iran suffered a devastating blow in May, with the American blockade and sanctions biting deep into the regime’s bottom line. Iran exported zero crude oil in the month and only...

June 5, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz |

Hezbollah Snubs Trump Offer of Israel Truce

Hezbollah was quick to reject the latest Israel-Lebanon ceasefire brokered by the United States this week. It did so despite President Donald Trump floating direct talks with the Iranian-backed terrorist...

June 5, 2026 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Understanding Iran’s 3,000-Mile Battlefront

Iran is fighting a regional war, while the United States can focus only on one front at a time.

June 4, 2026 | Keti Korkiya |

Why Russia Is Trying to Influence Armenia’s Elections

Moscow feels threatened by Armenia’s foreign policy pivot toward Europe and the United States.

June 4, 2026 | Natalie Ecanow |

6 Reasons Why Qatar’s U.S. Financial Footprint Warrants Scrutiny

Qatar, a Persian Gulf emirate roughly the size of Connecticut, possesses outsized wealth by sitting atop the world’s largest natural gas reservoir. FDD has meticulously documented that this tiny country...

June 3, 2026 | Natalie Ecanow |

Mapping Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the United States

June 3, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz, Richard Goldberg

Strait Victory: Bypassing Iran’s Hormuz Chokepoint

June 3, 2026 | Jack Burnham, Susan Soh

China Introduces New Outbound Investment Laws To Prevent U.S. Decoupling

After decades of courting foreign investment, Beijing is now working to stop the flow of funds going the other way.  On June 1, China’s State Council published new rules tightening...

June 3, 2026 | Max Meizlish, Connor Pfeiffer

Beyond the Embargo: A Toolkit for Squeezing the Cuban Regime

Opponents of U.S. sanctions often cite Cuba as “Exhibit A” for why sanctions don’t work. The United States has maintained an embargo on the island for more than six decades — but to what end? Cuba’s...

June 3, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

The Taiwanese and U.S. Militaries Can’t Really Fight Together

A joint campaign to defend the island would struggle to operate effectively.

June 3, 2026 | Bridget Toomey |

Voluntary Militia Disarmament in Iraq Sounds Too Good to Be True, and It Likely Is

Promises from Iran-backed militias in Iraq can never be taken at face value. Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), an Iran-backed militia in Iraq designated by Washington as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...