Whose Middle East Policy Is It, Anyway?
The State Department contradicts Obama and previous presidents on the “right of return.”
Middle East Forum
“Destroy All the Churches”
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
Op-eds
Building Palestinian Prosperity
By Alexander Joffe And Asaf Romirowsky The Palestinian cause has never been more marginalized than it is today. That was the message conveyed by Palestinian Prime Minister...
Op-eds
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...
Press Releases
FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows
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Press Releases
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ‘Moderate’
Ayatollah Khamenei's political spectacle continues to fool Western observers.
Op-eds
The Nasrallah speech: Hezbollah ruled, the West is fooled
In the next days a major battle in the War of Ideas will be unfolding worldwide and particularly through the international media. We are now witnessing a massive campaign by Hezbollah's stra...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Beirut Blitz
As I have warned several times over the past year, and in many articles, Hezbollah has indeed waged its expected blitzkrieg against the democratically elected Government of Lebanon. Within 24 hou...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Resurgence
FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...
Op-eds
The Coordinates of Radicalism
Sharia compliance correlates with violent attitudes among American Muslims.
Op-eds
Review: Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans
Schanzer and Moosa of Duke University and Kurzman of the University of North Carolina have garnered a fair amount of media attention for their study despite its complete methodological failure. A...
Op-eds
Experts Differ on Whether Iran Sanctions Will Work
MONTREAL — Foreign companies doing business in Iran could get around Canada's newly expanded sanctions by making their operations in this country subsidiaries of a parent in Iran, warned Mark Dub...
Op-eds
Times Square Bomber Discusses Taliban Ties at Plea Hearing
During a plea hearing in New York on Monday, Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, pled guilty to all of the charges levied against him and discussed his...
Op-eds
Understanding al-Shabaab
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Gruen The advance of Islamist groups in Somalia is seen as a cause for concern by Western law enforcement and...
Op-eds
The Strategic Challenge of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab
Since emerging from an era of colonialism under Italy and Britain, Somalia has passed through military dictatorship, famine, and civil war to regional fragmentation. In the modern period, America...
Op-eds
The Global Economic Crisis and Iraq’s Future
Last summer, when oil prices reached all-time highs virtually every day, it seemed that one of the few silver linings was a more stable future for Iraq. Surging oil prices appeared to give Iraq a...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Counterterrorism and Military Analysts as Adjunct Fellows
“Since our founding shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has been intensely involved in research and public debate over the policies a...
Press Releases
Europe Must Realize: Jihadism is an Ideology, Not a Theology
Jihadi terrorism is one of the largest threats Europe and the international community are facing in this era. Hence studying Jihadi terrorism beyond the formation and the dismantling of cells is highly relevant to Europeans because of the impact of its actions on security, politics, and economy.
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Resurgence
Four years ago, his words would have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda's top leadership as isolated, saying that they have "much, much less central authority and much, much less capability to reach out."
Op-eds
Symposium: Strategies of Death
FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson and Bill Roggio, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. Daveed Gartenstein Ross, let’s begin with you....