How Russia Plans to Get Turkey on Its Side
June has been a tough month for the board of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the joint Turco-Russian megaproject and Turkey&rs...
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Lebanon Is Protecting Hezbollah’s Cocaine Trade in Latin America
Days after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, Washington ramped up ...
Op-eds
Iran still seeking tech for weapons of mass destruction: German intel
Iran’s regime has not stopped its drive to secure technology and scientific knowledge to produce weapon of mass destruction, the intelligence agency of the German state of Baden-Württe...
Op-eds
Return of the Sanctions: Banks Should Steer Clear of the Central Bank of Iran
The U.S. Treasury Department has set its crosshairs on two more Iranian illicit finance schemes. Late last week, Washington designated a network spanning Iran and the United Arab Emirates that ha...
Op-eds
Iran’s Role in the Boycott Israel Campaign
The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, better known by the acronym BDS, targeting Israel has largely been viewed as a Palestinian- and Western European-driven campaign with the alleged g...
Op-eds
Trump Should Block Iran’s Air Corridor to Syria
Last month, an Iranian drone reportedly violated Israeli airspace after taking off from a base i...
Op-eds
EU Parliament Politicians Call for a Full Ban of Hezbollah
Members of the European Union parliament sent a letter on Thursday to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, urging her to classify all of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah as a terrorist e...
Op-eds
Rex Tillerson Babbles in Beirut While Middle East War Looms
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson visited Lebanon last Thursday, and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly a shining moment for U.S. diplomacy. Tillerson was made to sit...
Op-eds
Fix U.S. Airport Security Before It’s Too Late
The same security flaws that allow drugs into the United States can be exploited by terror groups and may eventually lead to another 9/11-type mass terror attack. It is time to close that gap by...
Op-eds
Why Turkey Chose Qatar
A few weeks after the Saudi-led diplomatic blitz targeting Qatar, there is no doubt that Ankara ...
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 Boeing and Airbus Iran deals shouldn’t fly
Sometimes international law is ambiguous. Sometimes not. When it comes to murdering civilians and using chemical weapons to get the job done, there are no gray areas, no fuzzy lines, no mitigatin...
Op-eds
Trump’s Syria strategy must target Assad’s chief protector: Iran
The strikes ordered on April 6 by President Trump to respond to Syrian leader Bashar al-A...
Op-eds
Rouhani, the Deceiver
In two months’ time — on May 19, to be exact — Iran will hold presidential elections. As things currently stand, odds are that the incumbent, Hassan Rou...
Op-eds
Iran arrests two Catholics in new wave of brutality against Christians
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians – a mother and her son – in late February as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the countr...
Op-eds
Terrorist Appointed as Mahmoud Abbas’ Deputy, But the World Stays Silent
On February 15, Fatah appointed Mahmoud Al-Aloul as a deputy and possible successor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas: Unfortunately, just like Abbas, Mr. Al-Aloul is a terrorist...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Meet Venezuela’s new VP, fan of Iran and Hezbollah
Facing a parliamentary vote to oust him and a call for new...
Op-eds
Will the next Arab revolt be in Algeria?
A remarkable series of scarcely noticed counter-terrorism operations, labor strikes, and social protests in Algeria last week show the North African country may face a year of upheaval. Six years...
Policy Briefs
What UNSCR 2334 Could Mean Beyond the United Nations, and How the Trump Administration Can Respond
Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...