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February 28, 2017 | Bill Roggio

White House responds to father of Navy SEAL killed in Yemen raid

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday responded to the father of US Navy SEAL Chief William "Ryan" Owens, who was killed in action during a raid in Yemen, saying the Department of Def...

February 9, 2017 | Patrick Megahan |

Iran pulls missile from launchpad following being put ‘on notice’ by Trump administration

Iran appears to have pulled a ballistic missile that appeared prepared for testing off a launch pad after being put "on notice" by the US, according to a report from Fox News on Tuesday....

February 9, 2017 | Bill Roggio

White House: Yemen raid a ‘huge success,’ anyone who suggests otherwise owes an apology

White House spokesman Sean Spicer again defended President Donald Trump's first significant military action, a raid on Al Qaeda forces in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an...

October 21, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey Welcomes US Defense Secretary By Slaughtering US Allies

Turkey struck hundreds of U.S.-backed Syrian rebels Thursday, just a week before a visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. ... Erdogan also recently finalized...

June 14, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The FBI director painted a bizarre picture of the man behind the worst mass shooting in US history

The director of the FBI, James Comey, said Monday that Omar Mateen, the man who carried out the worst shooting in US history at a gay nightclub in Orlando, mentioned links to al-Qaida, Hezbollah,...

April 15, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

‘Relax, they are our friends’: One quote shows why Turkey’s ISIS problem is only going to get worse

In a recent interview with The Guardian, a former ISIS fighter described how easy it was for him to cross Turkey's notoriously porous border into Syria to join the Islamic State. Ab...

April 11, 2016 | Boris Zilberman |

Assad has taken Russia ‘hostage’ — and what comes next could be ‘the worst the war has seen’

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is only growing more defiant as negotiators prepare to descend on Geneva once again in an attempt to broker the terms of a political transition and end the five-y...

February 18, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer, Aykan Erdemir

Turkey just received a huge ‘political gift’

but its opponents are warning it could lead to a ‘big war'

October 13, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

This Iranian Airline is One of the Assad Regime’s Lifelines

It's hard to fly to Damascus these days. Even if Russia's military intervention in the country has the ruling Assad regime breathing easier after months of infighting, manpower...

September 30, 2015 | Boris Zilberman, Jonathan Schanzer

Putin Just Created ‘New Rules of the Game’ in Syria

Russia began bombing Syrian rebels apparently unaffiliated with ISIS on Wednesday, in a major escalation of the 54-month war that has the US searching for answers. The bombing campaign "...

July 9, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

Obama is Making a Huge Bet — and His Biggest Foreign-Policy Experiment is at Stake

US President Barack Obama hopes Iran's future belongs to people like Hafez Safaee. Safaee, a 21-year-old, recently opened up a coffee shop in Tehran. He "wants to bring peo...

July 7, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

The Iranian Nuclear Talks Just Went Into Double Overtime

Negotiators in Geneva are set to blow past another deadline in the ongoing discussions surrounding Iran's nuclear program. And the new deadline could mean more trouble on the domest...

July 6, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

Netanyahu Unloads: The Iran Deal is Worse Than North Korea

Israel's prime minister says each day that passes brings greater Western concessions toward Iran in talks over its nuclear program — and that the emerging deal could be worse than one...

January 7, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Quoted by Armin Rosen - Business Insider

Some Possibilities For Who Might Be Responsible For The Paris Attack

... "A few data points suggest Al Qaeda. A few data points suggest ISIS. And we just don't have enough information to really know right now," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fello...