Fallujah

March 28, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Invading Rafah: The lessons IDF should take from northern Gaza

As Israel looks towards a future operation in Rafah, the battle will be overshadowed by lessons learned from other parts of the Gaza operation over the last five months.

November 16, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey’s ‘Aid’ Organization Is a Front for Supporting Terrorism

Turkey’s premier aid organization, the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms (IHH), with strong links to the government, actively supports terrorist causes and should be designated as a Foreign (FTO)...

November 7, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel celebrates breaching ground Hamas didn’t foresee as war enters second month

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to members of Israel’s elite Egoz unit on Tuesday, exactly one month after Hamas’ surprise attack on the country flipped the world upside down. The Egoz...

April 26, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Caliphate, interrupted

After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and attacks from Russian, Syri...

September 7, 2018 | Bill Roggio

Iraqi Militant Qayis Khazali Warned Us About Iran. We Ignored Him.

Iran has its tentacles all over Iraq, and the United States has no one to blame but itself. It is a bipartisan failure dating back to the March 2003 invasion. Even after the Bush administration a...

October 28, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Iraq’s Grim Prospects Post ISIL

Co-written by Sterling Jensen.  In the coming months, and possibly weeks, the Iraqi Security Forces, with the help of a diverse group of fighters spanning the Iraqi politic...

July 6, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran Stirs Up More Trouble in the Gulf

Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ external operations wing the Quds Force, ...

June 8, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

French fried peace process

The French government last week initiated a new “peace process.” Ignoring the butchery underway in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, as well as the threat Iran now poses to the Middle Eas...

May 24, 2016 | Clifford D. May

The Hard Line

FDD President & Founder Clifford D. May discusses the U.S. lifting its arms ban on Vietnam, the operation to retake Fallujah, and the VA.   ...

February 11, 2016 | John Hannah

What to Do When Your Man Just Won’t Commit, Baghdad Edition

I've been highly critical of President Barack Obama’s tenure as America’s commander in chief. But his shortcomings in this regard hardly came as a shock. Start your presidency wi...

February 9, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

How Many Fighters Does the Islamic State Really Have?

Estimates of the number of fighters in the ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are extraordinarily wide-ranging. On the low end of things, CNN’s Barbara Starr recently...

January 9, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn Quoted by Kate Brannen, Gopal Ratnam - Foreign Policy

The Long, Slow Fuse of Jihad in France

The attacks on "Charlie Hebdo" were the culmination of two men’s decade-long quest to wage holy war.

January 5, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Islamic State Assaults Iraqi Army Base in Anbar

Co-authored by Caleb Weiss The Islamic State claimed to have breached the perimeter of Camp Habbaniyah in Anbar province, via photographs released o...

December 31, 2014 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Jihadists Continue to Advertise Training Camps in Iraq and Syria

Several jihadist groups operating in Iraq and Syria continue to showcase facilities used to train their fighters. Since Dec. 1, seven new camps have been identified by The Long W...

November 25, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Islamic State’s Stalled Offensive in Anbar Province

In September, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a devastatingly effective offensive in Iraq’s Anbar province that for a time masked the losses the group was experienc...

October 15, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Fight Goes on in Anbar: ISIL vs the World

Over the past week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been able to build on its previous...

October 9, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Islamic State’s Anbar Offensive and Abu Umar al-Shishani

The recent gains in Iraq’s Anbar province by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have, justifiably, garnered a great deal of media attention. McClatchy ...

September 19, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

They Have a Strategy

During a press conference on August 28, Barack Obama had a rare moment of candor. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” the president said in response to a question about the prospect...

August 15, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Syria Spillover: The Growing Threat of Terrorism and Sectarianism in the Middle East

Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,it is a...

February 10, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Arab Spring and Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence

Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, distinguished members of the committee, it is an honor to appear before you to discuss the state of al-Qaeda, its affiliates, and associated groups. My test...