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August 9, 2024 | Lydia LaFavor, Ryan Brobst

First B-52H Bomber Deployment to Romania With Cross-Theater Operations in CENTCOM

The United States operated two B-52H Stratofortress long-range strategic bombers from Romania for the first time on July 21 and, in another first, forward deployed one of the B-52H aircraft just days later...

May 15, 2024 | Jon Pelson |

Congress must move to stop Beijing from making US rely on Chinese firms

The United States is determined to thwart Beijing’s efforts to secure victory around the world in three key areas: military, intelligence and diplomatic. Yet the greatest threat to US national security...

January 9, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

‘Enough Is Enough’: What Blinken Should Tell Turkey’s Cavusoglu

If Washington is going to listen to Turkey’s demands, it is incumbent upon Ankara to once and for all act like an ally.

July 20, 2022 | Bradley Bowman, Ryan Brobst, Jack Sullivan, John Hardie

Finland and Sweden in NATO are strategic assets, not liabilities

In the two weeks since ambassadors from all NATO member states signed the accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, approximately half of the member countries have now ratified the...

June 24, 2022 | Sinan Ciddi |

Erdogan Announces Presidential Candidacy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week formally announced his candidacy for re-election to a third consecutive term. The announcement aims to compel the Nation Alliance, an electoral coalition...

May 18, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman |

The Strongman Cometh

Why Erdoğan suddenly has a problem with Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

February 23, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Putin’s winter war

A strategy to contain him should have been implemented years ago

September 4, 2020 | Andrea Stricker, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Secret Sites in the Desert: The Dangers of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Hedging

If Washington fails to convince Riyadh, a regional partner, not to opt for domestic enrichment, then it will face greater hurdles getting Iran to accept limits on its own program.

August 24, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Terminate the UN Interim Force in Lebanon

President Donald Trump recently announced his decision to invoke the so-called “snapback” mechanism at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to re-impose UN sanctions and restrictions on...

April 29, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Wiesenthal Center Urges Antisemitic Finnish MP To Resign

Al-Taee also compared Israel to the Islamic State and denigrated Sunni Muslims, gays, Somalis and other groups.

January 4, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Fixing How We Fight the Islamic State’s Narrative

Co-authored by Nathaniel Barr  Over the past couple of years, counter-messaging has been driven to the forefront of countering violent extremism (CVE) efforts undertaken by...

December 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Sentences Woman To Death By Stoning

A criminal court in Iran's northern province of Gilan sentenced a woman to be executed by stoning for alleged complicity in the murder of her husband Arash Babaieepour Tabrizinejad....

August 31, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Unrestricted Europe-Iran Trade Will Help Empower Regime’s Oppression of Citizens

The pernicious European companies selling technology to the Islamic Republic are already well known: They range from widespread surveillance of Iranians to the transfer of dual-use equipment that...

April 15, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Defrosted: Will German Firms Plunge Head First Into Iran?

Co-authored by Maximilian Kiewel With a framework in place for addressing the Iran nuclear issue, Germany, a member of the P5+1 powers negotiating with Tehran, sta...

January 28, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Yemeni Military Launches Operation to Free Western Hostages Held by AQAP

The Yemeni Army launched an offensive against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the central Yemeni province of Al Baydah in an effort to free three Western hostages who were kidnapped by tribe...

October 24, 2012 | |

Canada’s Boat for Gaza Movement Still Lives in an Anti-Israel Svend Robinson-Era Time Warp

In 2010, militant activists on board a flotilla to Gaza provoked a violent confrontation with Israeli commandos. In the confusion, the Israelis shot and killed nine of the activists, who did not...

March 23, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Sweden’s Israeli Flag Burning and its Flirt with the Iran-Syria Complex

The burning of an Israeli flag in the heart of Stockholm’s bustling downtown shopping district this week coincided neatly with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s efforts to placa...

September 26, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal Radio Free Europe |

EU Abandons Western Values At UN

The United Nations-sponsored Durban III anti-racism conference opened in New York last week. The conference, commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the first Durban event, is intended to fight...

April 8, 2011 | Weekly Standard |

Why Is Germany’s Angela Merkel Strengthening Enemies of Israel and the West?

Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Israe...

April 8, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal Weekly Standard |

Why Is Germany’s Angela Merkel Strengthening Enemies of Israel and the West?

Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Isr...