Yemen’s Houthis have brought the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait into the conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran — blocking millions more barrels of oil from easily...
Iran has spent more than four decades building Hezbollah into a force capable of making war against Israel in hopes of one day destroying the Jewish state. Israeli forces have inflicted tremendous damage on Hezbollah’s leadership, arsenal, and manpower, yet the terror group is rebuilding, thanks in no small part to its globe-spanning illicit finance network. To shed greater light on this crucial subject, FDD has invited Israeli expert Dr. Iftah Burman to provide a robust overview of the transnational web of enterprises, stretching across the Middle East — and from Latin America to West Africa and into cyberspace — that sustains Hezbollah’s aggression. This work provides information essential to intelligence and law enforcement agencies in every country, including the United States, that recognizes the severity of Hezbollah’s threat to peace, stability, and prosperity in the Middle East.
The Yemeni militant group is poised to disrupt another key chokepoint in the global energy supply.
The election of Khalil al-Hayya as the head of Hamas’s political bureau is the clearest signal yet that the Iran-backed terror group will persist with its refusal to disarm — a stance that may well...
A civilian government in Gaza cannot take shape without the disarmament of the terrorist group.
The Houthis and Saudi Arabia broke a four-year truce after Iran and its Yemeni proxy attempted to establish a direct flight path between Tehran and the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa. The flight openly...
On July 8, the US-led Board of Peace announced that it would soon establish a “pilot zone” in southern Gaza. Planned for Tel Sultan, near Rafah, the goal of the zone would be to move unarmed...
Hamas claimed on July 6 it was ready to transfer authority and dissolve its government in Gaza. The announcement appeared to be in line with the US-brokered ceasefire that envisions...
Two decades after the curtain rose on Hamas’s reign in Gaza, the terrorist group would have us believe that it has taken its final bow. On July 6, Hamas said that it had dissolved its “Emergency...
Anti-Hamas organizers in Gaza planned a series of protests for June 26, but an intimidation campaign by Hamas largely suppressed the demonstrations. The terror group threatened Gazans...
Eight months after the ceasefire, Hamas still controls half of Gaza
From Iran's perspective, military pressure is not meant to defeat the enemy, but to influence the terms of the agreement reached through negotiations. Lebanon has become leverage over Washington and a means of increasing friction between the US and Israel. This is precisely the point that the Israeli government is struggling to internalize, or refuses to understand.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced that it had foiled dozens of planned terror attacks in the West Bank directed by Hamas operatives in Turkey over the past year. According to the agency,...
The interests of Lebanon and Israel align on the core issue of disarming Hezbollah.
The US-backed peace plan for Gaza has continued to progress slowly, though ceasefire talks held in Cairo in the first week and a half of June appeared to stall over the issue of Hamas’s disarmament,...
After eliminating two successive heads of Hamas’s military wing in roughly two weeks, the Israel Defense Forces has turned its attention to the commanders, specialists, financiers, and cell...
Mohammed Odeh commanded Hamas’s military wing for 10 days before being eliminated by the IDF on May 26. Several of his subordinates were also eliminated as the IDF continued to increase the pace and...
Hamas has reportedly selected longstanding member Mohammed Odeh to lead the group’s so-called military wing, the Al Qassam Brigades. The news was first reported by Saudi newspaper Asharq...
The newspaper continues to discredit itself by publishing deeply slanted reporting, much of it drawn from an organization whose founder openly supports Hamas.