Government

June 23, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia

Exploring the available economic levers to enhance respect for human rights

Thank you, Chair and Honourable Senators for inviting me here today. I commend this committee for turning its attention to the promotion of human rights abroad. Multiculturalism, which according...

May 25, 2016 | David Daoud |

Hezbollah doesn’t want a President – Because it doesn’t want a Lebanese Republic

Hezbollah appears to have switched loyalties in Lebanon’s never-ending presidential race. Despite maintaining long-standing support for the candidacy of the pro-Syrian former general Michel...

May 25, 2016 | David Daoud |

Hezbollah doesn’t want a President – Because it doesn’t want a Lebanese Republic

Hezbollah appears to have switched loyalties in Lebanon’s never-ending presidential race. Despite maintaining long-standing support for the candidacy of the pro-Syrian former general Michel...

March 29, 2016 | Eric S. Edelman |

Erdoğan ya Politikalarını Değiştirmeli ya da İstifa Etmeli

Translation by Merve Tahiroglu, view original article here.  Türkiye, Cumhurba&#35...

March 14, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Palestine’s Anti-Corruption Crusader

The biggest political standoff in years just ended in the West Bank and barely anyone in Washington noticed. A parliamentarian from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abba...

March 4, 2016 | David B. Rivkin, Jr.

Apple, the FBI and free speech: Column

It would be one thing if Apple could carry out a court order that it unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernardino terrorists simply by waving a magic wand. But encryption isn’t magic; the or...

February 15, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

Treasury sanctions Islamic State oil and religious officials, facilitator in Gaza

The US Treasury Department announced today that three Islamic State officials have been sanctioned f...

December 10, 2015 | |

Rouhani’s Pyrrhic Victory

“Today is a historical day,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said as the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 nations – the UN Security Council and Germany – agreed...

November 5, 2015 | |

Panzer auf der Landebahn

Bei seiner Antrittsrede vor den iranischen Revolutionsgarden am 16. September 2013 schlug der neu gewählte Präsident Hassan Rohani den versammelten Kommandeuren einen Deal vor: Die Revo...

October 19, 2015 | Sheryl Saperia

Cracking Down on Human-Rights Violators

Federal election campaigns are often characterized by negativity, but they are also a unique platform to present new policy ideas. Two recent Conservative pledges are worthy of consideration. For...

October 19, 2015 | Sheryl Saperia

Cracking Down on Human-Rights Violators

Federal election campaigns are often characterized by negativity, but they are also a unique platform to present new policy ideas. Two recent Conservative pledges are worthy of consideration. For...

September 3, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Amid Violence and Chaos, Turkey Grapples With Turmoil From Within and Without

Turkey marked the 93rd anniversary of Victory Day in its 1922 War of Independence against Greece on Sunday. While many commercial and residential buildings were blanketed with the Turkish red fla...

August 17, 2015 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey Risks Relapse into ’90s Violence

A specter is haunting Turkey. Suicide bombers, assassins and an alphabet soup of terrorist organizations seem to have brought back the carnage of the 1990s. The rapid ...

July 20, 2015 | |

Argentina is Still Helping Iran Cover Up its Role in the Bombing of a Jewish Community Center

July 18th marks 21 years since the largest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history: the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 individuals and wounded...

June 5, 2015 |

Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt

Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at...

March 17, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Turkey’s Secret Proxy War in Libya?

Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni accused...

February 20, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Doomed Diplomacy

Not long after his inauguration in January 2009, President Barack Obama penned a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. As a presidential candidate, Obama had promised...

December 4, 2014 |

Egypt’s Revolution Comes Full Circle

It all looks so familiar. Nearly four years after toppling Hosni Mubarak, crowds returned to Cairo on Saturday to protest the ex-president’s acquittal over causing 239 protesters’ dea...

November 26, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

No Fun in the Caliphate. Just the End of the World

It’s a tyrannical theocracy, crucifixions and decapitations are routine, women are shrouded and intimidated, the grim religious police are all over the place.  It’s your Islamic...

April 28, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer FDD Policy Brief |

Mahmoud Abbas and the Holocaust

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, responding to a question posed by a Rabbi, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud A...