It’s Time for NATO to Help the Baltics
Russian hackers have launched cyberattacks against Lithuania for its enforcement of EU sanctions against Kaliningrad.
Madrid
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...
Policy Briefs
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...
Policy Briefs
Palestinian Elections
Parties, Polling, and Implications for U.S. Policy
Memos
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...
Op-eds
A Revolution Against North Korea’s Guerrilla Dynasty and Gulag State
North Korea is a revolutionary nation with the mission to liberate the entir...
Op-eds
Just another Arab-Israeli get-together in Eastern Europe
A U.S.-sponsored conference highlights a promising strategic partnership.
Op-eds
Once Upon a Time, U.S. Foreign Policy Worked
George H.W. Bush's administration was evidence of what the establishment was capable of.
Op-eds
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 ...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Paris Newspaper Attack Underscores Terrorist Shift to ‘Soft Targets’
Majority of recent jihadi attacks perpetrated by ‘lone wolves’ on easy prey
Op-eds
Iran and The Straw Man
The estimable Sohrab Ahmari of the indispensable Wall Street Journal editorial page does some...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Legislative Testimonies
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...
Legislative Testimonies
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...
Op-eds
The UN’s Anti-Semitic Alliance
The Turkish prime minister’s recent slander about Zionism occurred at a UN organization event.
Op-eds
How Israel Lost Europe
How Benjamin Netanyahu lost friends and Mahmoud Abbas influenced people.
Op-eds
A Palestinian Flanking Maneuver
If the U.N. awards the status of 'non-member state' to the Palestinians, the Oslo Accords will be left in tatters.