Islamism

December 13, 2024 | |

An ‘Assault on Women’s Rights’: UN Experts Call on Iran to Repeal Hijab Law

Iran’s New Law Punishes Defiance of Hijab Mandate: Iran must repeal its new law enforcing the mandatory hijab, or headscarf, a group of 10 UN experts said in a December 13 statement....

December 13, 2024 | Bill Roggio, Will Selber

Assad’s Enemies Are Not Our Friends

The United States shouldn’t make allies out of terrorists.

December 11, 2024 | David Daoud |

Israel Secures its interests in Syria

Bashar al Assad’s regime fell in the early morning of December 8, withering away in the face of a mere 11-day onslaught by a coalition of opposition armed groups. Israel found itself caught off-guard by...

December 9, 2024 | |

Israel Denies Qatari Report That Hamas Provided Hostage Release List

Reports of Hamas Presenting Hostage List False: Israel denied a December 9 report that the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas had provided a list of Israeli hostages seized...

December 9, 2024 | |

‘Serious Concerns’: Israel Strikes Chemical Weapons Sites in Syria After Fall of Assad Regime

Israel Confirms IDF Strikes on Chemical Weapons in Syria: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar confirmed in a media briefing on December 9 that the IDF had struck chemical weapons...

December 9, 2024 | Natalie Ecanow |

Al Jazeera Allegedly Using Bots to Spread Propaganda While Skirting U.S. Law

A network of fake profiles is allegedly promoting antisemitic and anti-American propaganda on social media accounts associated with Qatar-owned Al Jazeera. The Combat Antisemitism Movement — a nonprofit...

December 8, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Assad Is Gone: What Happens to Syria Now?

On 9/11, Sunni Islamism attacked the U.S. and suffered a crushing American response that allowed Iranian Shia Islamism to rise and dominate parts of the Middle East. On 10/7, Shia Islamism – with the...

December 8, 2024 | David Adesnik |

What’s at stake for America in Syria after Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s murderer-in-chief, has fled to Moscow. The people are celebrating, tearing down posters of Assad and statues of his equally vicious father, who founded the regime. But...

December 8, 2024 | |

‘Temporary Defensive Position’: Israel Takes Control of Golan Buffer Zone

Assad Ousted as Rebels Take Damascus: In the culmination of a 10-day sweep of Syria, Syrian rebels entered Damascus leading to the December 8 ouster of President Bashar al-Assad...

December 8, 2024 | |

‘A Historic Day in the Middle East’: Bashar al-Assad Flees to Russia as Rebels Take Syrian Capital

Syrian Rebels Capture Damascus, Declaring Assad Regime Fallen: Bashar al-Assad resigned his presidency and fled from Syria early on December 8, according to Russia’s Foreign...

December 7, 2024 | |

Israel Assists UN Forces in Syria to ‘Repel’ Attack

IDF Helps Defend UN Post in Syria: The IDF said on December 7 that it assisted the United Nations in “repelling” an attack by armed gunmen on a UN post in Syria. According to...

December 6, 2024 | |

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-Led Rebel Offensive Gains Ground in Syria as Islamist Coalition Nears Third-Largest City

Anti-Assad Islamist Factions Continue South: The Syrian rebel Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continued through Assad-controlled territory in northwest Syria on December...

December 5, 2024 | Mariam Wahba |

Egyptian Satirist Jailed Over Political Cartoons, Spotlighting Cairo’s Abuse of Pretrial Detention

The case of Egyptian translator and political cartoonist Ashraf Omar casts a spotlight on Egypt’s abuse of pretrial detention laws, which enable the state to incarcerate detainees without evidence or...

December 5, 2024 | |

Egypt Ceasefire Proposal For Gaza Emerges as IDF Recovers Slain Hostage

Egypt Offers Up Hostage Deal Proposal: Egypt is understood to have proposed a temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza that would see the potential release of “the largest number”...

December 4, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Israel’s Gift

Lebanese patriots now have a chance to throw off Tehran’s yoke

December 3, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Gulf countries talk like Iran, act like Israel

The GCC rhetoric on Israel masks its true aims to decouple Syria's Assad and the Islamic Republic and declaw Hezbollah in Lebanon

December 2, 2024 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Janatan Sayeh

Natural allies: Iranians reject regime’s anti-Israel policies

Once allies, Iran and Israel now face deep hostility due to the Islamic Republic’s anti-Israel stance; many Iranians, frustrated with the regime’s oppression and failed policies, view Israel as a natural ally, embracing shared interests and historic bonds

December 2, 2024 | |

A ‘Medieval Law’: Iran’s New Hijab Bill Cracks Down on Women

Iran Unveils New Hijab Law: Tehran on November 30 released the full text of a new bill that would increase punishments on women who refuse to wear the mandatory hijab, or headscarf,...

December 2, 2024 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Hamas is not invincible

Palestine solidarity could shatter

November 30, 2024 | |

Syrian Rebel Forces Take Aleppo in Lightning Offensive

Anti-Assad Islamists Launch Massive Operation: Thousands of fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Islamist group previously known as Jabhat al-Nusra, Al Qaeda’s...