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May 31, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Will France abandon its opposition to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state?

If it does, then Israel will be more reliant on Germany, Italy, Greece and the Eastern European states to fight its corner within the European Union, its largest trading partner.

July 14, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Will Sweden Actually Be Admitted Into NATO?

If President Erdogan wanted to ratify Sweden’s accession, he could convene the Turkish parliament within a matter of days for a special session.

June 23, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Will Erdogan Finally Ratify Sweden’s NATO Accession? No One Knows.

It is now a waiting game—and that’s how it should be.

June 9, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Biden Should Demand More From Turkey Before Selling F-16s

Turkey’s elections are over, and the scramble now begins to get Turkey to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership at the alliance’s Vilnius summit. U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony...

November 22, 2022 | John Hardie |

Iran Aids Russia’s Imperialist War Against Ukraine

Tehran has agreed to help Moscow produce hundreds or even thousands of Iranian drones in Russia, according to new intelligence reports cited by The Washington Post and CNN. This agreement could boost...

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...

June 29, 2022 | James Brooke, Ivana Stradner

It’s Time for NATO to Help the Baltics

Russian hackers have launched cyberattacks against Lithuania for its enforcement of EU sanctions against Kaliningrad.

June 24, 2022 | Sinan Ciddi |

Erdogan Announces Presidential Candidacy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week formally announced his candidacy for re-election to a third consecutive term. The announcement aims to compel the Nation Alliance, an electoral coalition...

December 1, 2021 | Zane Zovak |

China Seeks to Exploit Interpol Leadership Role to Hunt Dissidents

Interpol’s General Assembly voted last week to elect a senior Chinese public security official, Hu Binchen, to serve on the international police organization’s 13-member Executive Committee. The election...

July 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio

Taliban justifies 9/11 attack, blaming America’s ‘interventionist policies’

The Taliban justifies al Qaeda's attack on 9/11 as follows: "This heavy slap on their dark faces was the consequence of their interventionist...

December 2, 2018 | John Hannah

Once Upon a Time, U.S. Foreign Policy Worked

George H.W. Bush's administration was evidence of what the establishment was capable of.

May 23, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn

Yesterday’s terrorist attack that struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Britain’s Manchester Arena—leaving 22 people dead and 59 injured, by the ...

November 30, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Bloody Trail

The writing has been on the wall for so long that it has already begun to fade. The bloody trail of Islamist terrorism is the single most insidious threat to our free societies’ globalised...

January 12, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer Quoted by Victor Beattie - VOA News

US to Host Summit on Preventing Extremist Violence

... The attorney general says information-sharing among nations is crucial in the fight against extremism. "One of the things that we certainly gleaned from these interactions [in...

January 9, 2015 | Bill Roggio Quoted by Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Paris Newspaper Attack Underscores Terrorist Shift to ‘Soft Targets’

Majority of recent jihadi attacks perpetrated by ‘lone wolves’ on easy prey

July 2, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

Iran and The Straw Man

The estimable Sohrab Ahmari of the indispensable Wall Street Journal editorial page does some...

February 4, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Pro-al Qaeda Saudi Cleric Calls on ISIS Members to Defect

Not long after al Qaeda's general command yesterday disowned the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

October 29, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Crisis in Syria: Implications for Homeland Security

Chairman McCaul, Ranking Member Thompson and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the potential threats to the U.S. emanating out of Syria. Obviously, the sit...

May 22, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from al Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria

Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda’s operations inside Iran and Syria. These ar...

April 1, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal Fox News |

Most of Europe Reluctant to Crack Down on Hezbollah Despite Growing Threat

A House hearing on Hezbollah as a global terrorist threat coupled with Thursday’s prison sentence of a Hezbollah member — the first in a European court — brings into sharp focus...