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Why NATO Should Pivot Toward Economic Security

In the coming decades, military burden-sharing won’t be enough to ensure Transatlantic security.

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July

Trend Overview Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines...

US kills Islamic State senior leader in Syria, Damascus rejects Lebanon intervention

On June 19, US Central Command (CENTCOM) carried out an airstrike targeting a senior leader of the Islamic State in Syria as the US maintains its decade-long campaign against the jihadist...

China Targets the U.S. Rare Earth Comeback

The short pause in U.S.-China minerals warfare is over. The May 2026 Trump-Xi summit in Beijing raised hopes of extending the critical minerals truce that began at the October 2025 Busan summit, where...

Syria Need Not Enter Lebanon to Help Curb Hezbollah

Syria is not going to undertake a military campaign against Hezbollah that Israel itself has been unable to carry out.

Deploying Syrian Troops in Lebanon Would Help, Not Hurt, Hezbollah

“I told Israel it should let Syria handle Hezbollah because, frankly, I think Syria would do a better job,” President Donald Trump said during the G7 summit in Paris. Trump’s comment was the second...

Amid security threats, Syria attempts to cement stability, international ties

On May 19, a car bomb exploded near a Ministry of Defense building in central Damascus’s Bab Sharqi area. One Syrian soldier was killed, and 23 civilians were wounded, the official Syrian Arab...

A Gameplan for American Economic Security:

Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy

Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism

America can bankrupt Iran’s insiders — And it should

Tens of billions of dollars have been siphoned out of the Iranian economy by the Islamic Republic’s insiders over the past decade. If the U.S. wasn’t watching then, it is now. “We...

Fixing Putin’s plan

Helping make Russia great again is not in America’s interest

Chinese Coercion of Taiwan’s Energy Lifelines: A Contest Taiwan and the West Can’t Afford to Lose

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Trump will help Ukraine hit Putin where it hurts — to finally end his bloody war

President Donald Trump — after repeatedly warning the Kremlin that his patience was wearing thin over its continuing invasion of Ukraine — has begun to match words with action. As Moscow continues...

Now is not the time for a new nuclear deal with Iran

The time is ripe not for an accord, but for increased global economic pressure that would deter the Islamic Republic from ever reconstituting its atomic program.

How Trump can stop killings in Ukraine and score a win for the US — and himself

Even before a Russian attack drone murdered an innocent 1-year-old Wednesday and highlighted Vladimir Putin’s savagery, President Donald Trump seemed headed in the right direction on Ukraine. Moscow’s...

Israel-Iran War is a Double-Edged Sword for Putin’s Russia

What Does Putin Really Want in the Israel-Iran Conflict? ...

EU Works to Weave a Tighter Sanctions Net Around Russia. Will the U.S. Follow?

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Russia Attacks Kyiv With Deadly Drone and Missile Barrage as World’s Attention Focused on Iran

Russia Strikes Kyiv: As the world’s attention is focused on Iran, Russia conducted a deadly missile and drone attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on June 17. The strikes,...

G-7: Africans Deserve Real Electricity

The  G-7 countries are meeting this week in Kananaskis in Alberta, Canada. This G-7 meeting will focus on geopolitical issues. While many disagreements currently prevail among the G-7 countries,...

Israel targets IRGC general and disrupts Iranian banks (June 17 updates)

A sweeping Israeli campaign on June 17 delivered a series of coordinated military strikes and cyber operations that placed the Islamic Republic of Iran under mounting pressure. Israel eliminated the most...