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September 6, 2026 | David Daoud |

Israel claims control of Ali al Taher after weeks of Hezbollah attacks and failed handover efforts

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on September 3 that its 36th Division had cleared Hezbollah personnel from two underground routes beneath south Lebanon’s Ali al Taher Ridge, the site...

January 6, 2026 | David Daoud |

Israeli operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah: December 29, 2025–January 4, 2026

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted numerous operations throughout Lebanon against Hezbollah between December 29, 2025, and January 4, 2026. Israeli activities this week were concentrated exclusively...

September 10, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Princeton researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov freed in Iraq

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton researcher who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, was freed in Iraq after being held for more than 900 days by an Iranian-backed militia. “I am pleased to...

December 25, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

‘Gazafication’: The terror threat in northern West Bank is growing

Weapons are flowing to the West Bank and enabling the growing terrorist threat, the building blocks of a kind of “Gazafication” are now in place.

August 6, 2024 | |

Nine UNRWA Staff Dismissed for Possible Ties to October 7 Atrocities

Latest Developments United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini announced the dismissal of nine of the agency’s employees for their potential involvement...

May 2, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

How Hamas balances Qatar, Turkey and the West

Rumors continue to circulate that Hamas might relocate to host countries, however Hamas has too much to lose by leaving Doha, and the West and Doha have interests at stake.

February 22, 2024 | |

Israel Arrests Eight UNRWA Employees Over Ties to Hamas

Israel arrested eight employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over their ties to Hamas, the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv reported on February 22. Citing Israeli...

January 30, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Why pro-Iran media is worried about Israel and Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor

Currently, Hamas controls the area along the Egyptian border, and this remains one of the last Hamas strongholds in Gaza.

November 7, 2023 | John Hardie |

Russia’s Wagner Group to Transfer Air Defense System to Hezbollah, U.S. Intel Says 

U.S. intelligence reportedly believes that Russia’s Wagner paramilitary organization plans to send Hezbollah a short-range air defense system that currently belongs to the Syrian military. Moscow may...

October 31, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The growing Houthi threat to Israel and the region – analysis

The Houthis are part of the Iranian desire to globalize and regionalize the October 7 massacre by Hamas. But they are also Iran's proxy and weapons test bed.

September 12, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

PGMs: Iran’s Precision-Guided Munitions Project in the Shadow of a Nuclear Deal

February 17, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Richard Goldberg, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

January 27, 2020 | Svante Cornell, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

Occupied Elsewhere

Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes

September 12, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I tha...

September 9, 2014 | |

Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...

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...

November 2, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows

Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomes two new scholars to its ranks. Lee Smith, of the Weekly Standard, and...

November 2, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows

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September 9, 2011 | |

Israel’s Growing Isolation—and America’s Decreasing Regional Power

The Israeli press is still trying to figure out what to make of Robert Gates’s parting shot at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

October 22, 2003 | Columbia Spectator

Of, by, and for

By Ariel Beery In Congress, according to Michael Crowley of The New Republic, many Democrats are opposing the appropriations bill for Iraqi reconstruction mainly because it is being push...