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February 26, 2024 | David Daoud |

Breaking down Hezbollah’s rocket strategy: the Short-Range Threat

Hezbollah entered the 2006 war against Israel with an arsenal of 14,000 projectiles – a mixture of rockets and missiles of various ranges. By the end of the 34-day conflict, Hezbollah had lost approximately...

May 10, 2023 | |

Islamic Jihad Seeks Israel’s Destruction

Gaza-based terrorists fired more than 270 rockets and mortars at Israel on May 10 as the Israeli Air Force attacked launching sites across the coastal strip. The terrorist group...

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?

June 1, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Hamas as Tehran’s Agent

Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars...

May 24, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Redefining Iran’s Role in its Latest ‘Shadow War’ Against Israel

As Iran works to make its proxies more militarily self-sufficient, opportunities for weapons interception will be reduced and claims of attribution against Tehran will become harder.

May 6, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer FDD Policy Brief |

Reported Israeli Raid on Sudan Could Reveal Khartoum’s Duplicity

Sudan may have joined the Saudi-led fight against Iran-backed p...

March 25, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief |

Iran Shipping Weapons Across Middle East

Reports surfaced last Friday about the arrival o...

September 12, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I tha...

September 9, 2014 | |

Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...

August 25, 2014 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Don’t Forget Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

Last month, the P5+1 and Iran arranged for an extension of Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the interim nuclear deal that was agreed to in Geneva in late 2013 and implemented in January of this year....

July 17, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

Gaza Rockets, Iranian Fingerprints

Hamas has fired ...

November 11, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

One-Year After ‘Pillar of Defense,’ Hamas is on its Heels

By David Barnett One year ago Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense (PoD) in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The largely aerial assault began...

April 11, 2013 | R. James Woolsey Joint Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs |

Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus

Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...

April 11, 2013 |

Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus

Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...

April 5, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer National Post

Why is the West Doing Business with Sudan?

What does Canada have in common with the regime in Sudan, which perpetrated genocide in Darfur, while allying with Iran and providing weapons to the Palestinian terror group Hamas? In pr...

February 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal Dnevnik - Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s Problems with “Hamas” and “Hezbollah”

Google translation The arrival of three members of the radical Islamic terrorist organization "Hamas" in Sofia on Wednesday should alarm all Bulgarians fight neo-fascist and ant...

February 15, 2013 | Tony Badran |

Iran and Israel Fight, Lebanon Loses

It’s been more than two weeks since the Israeli airstrike in Syria against the arms convoy headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bits of information, coupled with ominous ...

January 31, 2013 | Tony Badran |

Israel’s Free Hand

Yesterday, reports emerged of an Israeli airstrike against a truck convoy suspected of carrying “game cha...

December 26, 2012 | |

Smugglers Galore

How Iran arms its allies.

November 28, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer CNN |

Why US-Israel Ties Just Got Warmer

The latest round in an endless cycle of violence between Israel and Gaza has culminated in a surprising win for the US- Israel relationship: an apparent renewal of vows between President Obama an...