Syria Is At A Crossroads. What’s At Stake Now?
Can the new government stabilize the country? Additionally, can Washington make sure it doesn’t miss an opportunity to leverage a decade of work with the Kurds and other partners?
Hafez
U.S. Sanctions Assad’s 18-Year-Old Son, Promises More Targets to Come
The departments of State and Treasury announced the designation yesterday of 14 individuals and entities with ties to the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, including his eldest son, Hafez. Coming after...
Policy Briefs
Standing With Israel on the Golan Heights
Benjamin Netanyahu has achieved his primary objective of resetting ties with the U.S. after eight years of tensions. True, the Israeli prime minister and Donald Trump still need to brid...
Op-eds
A Dangerous Combination
Co-authored by John Schindler Two weeks ago, al Qaeda-linked jihadists attacked the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso and murdered 28 people, including an American missionary. It w...
Op-eds
How Will We Know?
One might think that after the last Iraq war Democrats would be wary of allowing intelligence to dictate policy. Yet that is effectively what Barack Obama has done with the Joint Comprehensive Pl...
Op-eds
The Long Shadow of the Iran-Iraq War
For a conflict that still captivates much of Iran’s ruling elite, the Iran-Iraq War gets very little attention in the United States. Over the years, we’ve...
Op-eds
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Op-eds
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Congressional Testimonies
Assad’s Cabinet
Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.
Op-eds
Cause for Celebration in Syria
The fall of Assad’s pro-Iranian regime is a net gain for the US, even if what replaces it isn’t a reliable ally
Op-eds
The Freedom Collection
FDD's Ammar Abdulhamid did a series of interviews with the George W. Bush Presidential Center in July 2011 on the Syrian Uprisings. As part of their Freedom Collection, Ammar explains the Sy...
Op-eds
Split Ends
In March, the Syrian regime began slaughtering peaceful demonstrators in Deraa, a small city close to the Jordanian border. In August, the American president called for the man responsible for th...
Op-eds
Reading IAEA in Tehran
The Iranian regime is proud of its nuclear program.
Op-eds
A Spreading Revolt in Syria
Is Assad losing his grip?
Op-eds
Peace Talks, Bashar’s War by Other Means
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is known to have a penchant for brinksmanship. Calculating that he has nothing to fear from a timid Obama administration, he is upping the ante in his direct mili...