International Institute for Strategic Studies

July 20, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

After surprise Tel Aviv attack, Houthi drone arsenal comes under spotlight

In-depth analysis of how Iranian-backed Houthis turned to drones in Yemen's civil war, creating a formidable, cost-effective aerial arsenal that gained them the upper hand in the region.

April 3, 2024 | |

U.S. Considering Major Military Package for Israel

The Biden administration has informally notified Congress of its desire to approve the sale to Israel of as many as 50 new F-15 fighter jets valued at $18 billion, according to media...

November 20, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Fattah 2: Why is Iran showcasing an untested, ‘hypersonic’ missile? – analysis

In recent years, the concept of “hypersonic” missiles has become a talking point for countries, from Russia to the US and China.

November 2, 2022 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

How to get Kyiv the Tanks and Armored Vehicles It Needs

“We’re fighting the war out of our pickup trucks,” stated a Ukrainian soldier when reflecting on Ukraine’s slowing counteroffensive in Luhansk region. While Ukraine has a large inventory of tanks...

September 22, 2022 | Ryan Brobst, Jonathan Schanzer, Bradley Bowman

Lifting the arms embargo on Cyprus is a major opportunity to aid Ukraine

The Biden administration announced on Friday a decision to lift the decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus for the coming fiscal year. This laudable step recognizes Nicosia’s progress related to financial...

July 20, 2022 | Bradley Bowman, Ryan Brobst, Jack Sullivan, John Hardie

Finland and Sweden in NATO are strategic assets, not liabilities

In the two weeks since ambassadors from all NATO member states signed the accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, approximately half of the member countries have now ratified the...

November 22, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Malley should go back to the basics

Whatever policy the US special envoy is conducting on Iran does not qualify as diplomacy, but rather as ideology.

July 12, 2016 | |

Why Are These IRGC Figures Not Sanctioned?

The White House promised Congress last summer that the Iran nuclear accord would not prevent the United States from imposing additional non-nuclear sanctions. Yet Ambassador Stephen Mull, the adm...

October 6, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Druze Clues

Co-written by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi The market for extremism has been so disrupted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and its penchant for extraordinary...

November 21, 2011 | |

The Fall of the House of Assad

Bashar al-Assad is finished. The Arab League has condemned him, as have former allies Qatar and Turkey. One time Saudi intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal says Assad’s exit is inevitable. Pe...

August 2, 2010 | International Herald Tribune

Loopholes Let Iran Off the Hook

LONDON — Geopolitical psychoanalysis can be a lazy and futile staple of international affairs. But the judgment of Robert M. Gates, the U.S. defense secretary, that Russia's relationship with Ira...

July 10, 2008 | World Defense Review

Global Ripples from the Niger Delta

  On June 19, militants affiliated with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) launched their most audacious attack to date on the West African country's p...

May 8, 2008 |

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: An Evolving Challenge in the War on Terror


Last Thursday an airstrike on the Somali town of Dhusamareb, 300 miles north of Mogadishu (see
W. Thomas Smith, Jr.'s report in Human Events), dispatched Adan Hashi ‘Ayro, the commander of al-Shabaab ("the youth"), the terrorist organization spearheading the bloody Islamist insurgency in the Horn of Africa, and several of his cohorts to the custody of the nineteen angels stoking the stone-fueled fires of hell (Qur'an 74:30, 66:6). The territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic is, however, only one front in the war on terror's African theater. Another is the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert and the Sahel, areas which are likely to play an increasingly significant role in the overall struggle against extremism.

August 7, 2007 | National Interest Online |

Providing Security While Peacekeepers Tarry

Last week the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1769, which authorizes a force of up to 26,000 peacekeepers to restore security to the Darfur region of Sudan where fou...

June 16, 2004 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

The Establishment Strikes Back

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 were, self-evidently, the worst intelligence failure in American history. Less well understood: They also were the worst policy failure. For more than two d...

November 16, 2003 | FrontPageMagazine |

Jihad in Istanbul

By Walid Phares There is no doubt about it: the final target in the terrorist attacks against the Jewish synagogues of Neve Shalom and Beth Israel in Istanbul, beyond the Jewish communit...