Empress Elisabeth of Austria

September 25, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Mariam Wahba

How the State Department Circumvented US Law

The U.S. decision to grant Egypt its full allotment of $1.3 billion in military aid, despite Egypt’s ongoing human rights abuses, represents a troubling circumvention of U.S. law. Of this sum, $320...

January 22, 2024 | Haisam Hassanein |

After Israel-Hamas war, Egyptian Copts face ambiguous future

For almost a decade, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has wanted to curb religious extremism and enhance the status of Christians in his country. In the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7th attacks...

March 3, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey’s Erdogan must take concrete action on Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood

Prior to the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey in early February, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was attempting to pull off several foreign policy magic tricks ahead of the country’s May...

August 14, 2022 | Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Why Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rockets Kill So Many Palestinians

Roughly 200 Gaza rockets misfired in the recent conflict, killing at least 15 civilians. So why are Islamic Jihad’s projectiles so fatally unreliable? And what are Iran’s plans for its proxy?

November 26, 2018 | Tony Badran, Michael Doran

Trump Is Crude. But He’s Right About Saudi Arabia.

On the strategic questions that matter in the Middle East, the president is cleareyed.

November 9, 2018 | Romany Shaker |

Islamic State Still Attacks Christians Despite Egypt’s Military Campaign

Islamic State (IS) militants on November 2 opened fire...

October 18, 2018 | Tony Badran, Michael Doran

Why the Saudis despised Jamal Khashoggi

With the likelihood growing that the Saudi government was behind the murder of Jamal Khashogg...

September 7, 2018 | Romany Shaker |

U.S. Bright Star Participation and the Push for Egyptian Reform

U.S. and Egyptian military forces, beginning Saturday, will participate in a joint exercise in Egypt called “Bright Sta...

March 27, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The problem with promoting democracy

In a better world, I’d be enthusiastically in favor of democracy promotion and even nation-building -- more correctly called state-building. But we don’t live in a better world....

March 22, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The Egyptian riddle

With presidential elections coming up on March 26, Egypt’s capital is festooned with campaign billboards and posters. That’s an encouraging sight in the Middle East, and yet I sense t...

February 21, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not So Fast

On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a perio...

September 25, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Stand up against these terror groups to bolster the US-Egypt alliance

The Trump administration sent shock waves through Cairo last month when it denied Egypt almost $100 million in military and economic assistance. The Senate followed up by slashing military assist...

May 2, 2017 | |

Hamas’s New Document: More of the Same

Hamas’s outgoing political leader Khaled Meshaal announced the release of a...

April 3, 2017 | Boris Zilberman |

Russia’s Charm Offensive in North Africa

With the world’s attention focused on the question of Russian influence in the United States and the European Union, the Kremlin is quietly making inroads in anot...

April 3, 2017 | FDD Policy Brief

Trump Offers Sisi Praise, but Unclear What Else

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi traveled to Washington on Monday for his first-ever Whi...

March 22, 2017 | |

A Temporary Thaw in Egyptian-PA Relations

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...

April 14, 2016 | David Weinberg |

Analysis: Saudi-Egypt deals part of Gulf effort to unite Sunnis against Iran

Recently signed agreements between Saudi Arabia and Egypt appear to be part of a broader Saudi effort to build a regional Sunni alliance against Iran, yet the results of such an alliance are stil...

October 16, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Victory Without Soldiers?

With the war in Syria becoming ever more complex and murderous, it’s worthwhile to revisit a guiding principle of Barack Obama: The use of American military power is likely to do more harm...

January 23, 2015 | |

Inside The Slow-Burning Internal Crisis That’s Gripping The Palestinian Leadership

"Palestine cannot be run by bullying, dictatorship and the falsification of facts which Mahmoud Abbas and his gang use on daily basis.” So ...

January 8, 2015 | Michael Ledeen Forbes

Terrorist Attack In Paris Proves We Must Defeat The Islamist Jihadists

Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have scrambled to convince the public of two things: that terrorist acts are not driven by religious beliefs, and that Islam is a “religi...