England

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...

July 12, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

‘The Neck and the Sword’ is Rashid Khalidi’s distortion of history

The Palestinian intellectual is in denial of the long history of antisemitism in the Muslim world.

November 19, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Ten things Iran thinks it achieved on Oct. 7 – analysis

Iran’s IRGC leader gave a speech providing insight into the Iran regime’s prophecies about Israel and the US being defeated.

March 31, 2023 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Andrew Zammit, Emelie Chace-Donahue, Madison Urban

Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism

Excerpt Counterterrorism practitioners have increasingly drawn attention to acts of violent extremism which, in the words of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray, “don’t...

October 5, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with despots

They’re not like us

October 13, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Remember Lepanto

A great battle in a war not yet ended

April 20, 2021 | John Hardie, Matthew Zweig

Biden Administration Fires Warning Shot with New Russia Sanctions

The Biden administration announced new sanctions and other punitive actions last week in response to a wide range of malign Russian activity. The sanctions entail a modest increase in economic pressure...

March 5, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero, John Hardie

Biden Must Do More to Deter Russian Aggression and Uphold Global Norms

The United States on Tuesday joined its European allies in imposing sanctions in response to Moscow’s August 2020 chemical weapons (CW) attack against, and subsequent imprisonment of, Russian opposition...

December 18, 2020 | John Hardie, Andrea Stricker

White House Refusing to Hold Russia Accountable for Navalny Poisoning

Investigative reports released on Monday eliminated any doubt regarding Moscow’s responsibility for the attempted assassination in August 2020 of leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny using a banned...

October 19, 2020 | John Hardie |

New EU Sanctions on Russia a Good First Step, But Further Action Needed

The European Union unveiled targeted sanctions on Thursday in response to the August 20 use of a chemical weapon to poison leading Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The sanctions represent a positive first...

October 5, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, LTG (Ret.) Ben Hodges

Worth Preserving: US Military Posture in Germany

Any adjustments to U.S. force posture in Europe should focus first and foremost on sustaining or strengthening readiness.

October 4, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is Qatar lying about its COVID-19 outbreak to avoid jeopardizing its hosting of the World Cup?

According to John Hopkins University, Qatar has suffered at least 216 total deaths and 126,339 total cases

August 24, 2019 | |

Iran’s regime stokes more antisemitism amid Gulf tensions, ADL report

"A Persian-language cartoon published by Fars News in April solely blamed the Jewish people or Israel for tightening U.S. sanctions on Iranian energy exports."

December 13, 2018 | John Hannah |

Neither Side Gets the Khashoggi Debate Right

The tribalism infecting U.S. domestic politics has unfortunately crept deep into the foreign-policy discourse.

December 11, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Lawrence of Arabia may have been murdered by British secret service, new film suggests

A controversial new biopic about T.E. Lawrence suggests British secret service may have murdered the famous desert warrior. The British army officer and...

September 19, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Criminal regimes against the rest of us

Imagine you live in a nice, quiet town and aim to keep it that way. You own a business. Your customers are friendly. Your vendors are honest. People respect o...

September 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Why is Germany Silent on Corbyn’s Praise of Munich Terrorists?

The barn-burning revelations in the British newspaper Daily Mail in August that ...

June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Hezbollah to be Outlawed in Britain

UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid plans later this year to outlaw Hezbollah in Britain, according to a report in the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Javid pledged to take “decisive acti...

October 3, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Despite Jewish Alarm, Britain Refuses To Outlaw Pro-Hezbollah Demonstration

he United Kingdom’s home secretary rejected in early September London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s request to ban the annual al-Quds Day march because it is a pro-Hezbollah demonstration that p...

August 3, 2017 | Michael Ledeen

Misery Doesn’t Cause Revolution

I keep watching the videos from Venezuela, hundreds of thousands of protesters calling for an end to the Chavez-Maduro era.  And I ask myself, why is this manifestly failed regime still in p...