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December 4, 2024 | Natalie Ecanow |

Qatari Emir Receives Royal Treatment During State Visit to United Kingdom

After rolling out the red carpet for Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Tamim Al Thani, the UK government announced plans to double joint UK-Qatar humanitarian assistance with a $100 million fund intended to...

November 21, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran seeks ‘deeper and broader’ ties with Qatar

This is noteworthy because Qatar has positioned itself as a nation capable of simultaneously hosting extremists and terrorists while maintaining close ties with Western powers.

May 11, 2024 | Mark Dubowitz, Ben Cohen

Biden’s betrayal of Israel only means more civilians will die

A decade ago, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously declared that Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four...

April 9, 2018 | Alexandra N. Gutowski, Varsha Koduvayur

Retail Therapy: Isolated Qatar Hopes Spending Will Spur New Alliances

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani is set to visit the White House on April 10 where he will ...

September 8, 2015 | |

Kuwait’s Espionage Revelations Could Disrupt Rapprochement with Iran

Kuwaiti authorities recently disrupted an alleged terror cell linked to Iran and Hezbollah, and have begun exploring punitive steps against Tehran over...

August 19, 2015 |

Analysis: Qatar Still Negligent on Terror Finance

The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on August 5 against two Qatari nationals accused of prov...

July 28, 2015 | |

Iran Embarks On Middle East Charm Offensive – Will It Work?

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif have each ...

July 9, 2015 |

The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Summit: Any Results?

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to testify before...

June 23, 2015 |

Meet Saudi Arabia’s Biggest (and Most Controversial) Twitter Star

Saudi Arabia is changing, some say. The authoritarian desert kingdom is becoming more responsive to the will of its people and the demands of the global information economy, say others. This idea...

September 12, 2014 | David Andrew Weinberg |

The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts and Emerging Challenges

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...

July 2, 2014 | |

Qatar Lite: The Mideast Maverick May Be Retreating

The Middle East’s most provocative, profligate microstate seems to be entering a more subdued stage. In a development Qatar’s neighbors should try to expand, the country’s new e...

May 21, 2014 | |

The Gulf Cooperation Council

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...

November 16, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Obama Must Deal with Egypt and Iran

President Obama has quite a problem with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. At the State Department briefing Thursday afternoon, deputy press secretary Mark Toner danced around repeated questions...

October 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Haqqani Network is Part of the Taliban — Siraj Haqqani

Haqqani Network leader Sirajauddin Haqqani, who is closely linked to al Qaeda, denied that his forces operate separately from the Taliban and said his followers are loyal to Afghan Taliban leader...

May 7, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

Assessing Interpretations of the New Bin Laden Documents

The documents recovered from Abbottabad that were released on Thursday represent the largest new trove of i...

February 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Shabaab Formally Joins al Qaeda

Shabaab and al Qaeda have announced their formal merger, according to a video disseminated online today and translated by the SITE Intelligence group. In the video, Mukhtar Abu al Zubayr (a.k.a....

June 13, 2011 | Counterterrorism Blog

A Caliph’s Frustration with his Emirs

Yes, Bin Laden’s latest audiotape aired on al Jazeera is somewhat unique. Not in its ideological party line or in the Salafi doctrinal roots. That hasn’t changed nor is it expected to...

February 4, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Former Taliban Commander Dies at Gitmo

A former Taliban commander died Tuesday evening at Guantanamo after suffering an apparent heart attack or similar ailment. US Southern Command released a statement on Thursday explaining that the...

June 25, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US designates Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov a global terrorist

Doku Umarov, the leader of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, al Qaeda's affiliate in the Caucasus, from a videotape in which he took credit for the March 29 suicide attacks on the...

June 22, 2007 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bill Roggio, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Strategies of Death

FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson and Bill Roggio, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.   Daveed Gartenstein Ross, let’s begin with you....