Missile

October 7, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel faces attacks on multiple fronts on the anniversary of the October 7 attack

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November 30, 2023 | Bradley Bowman, Ryan Brobst

Deploy the Precision Strike Missile to the Middle East

The US Army is about to get its hands on a brand new long-range strike capability. In this op-ed, two FDD analysts have ideas about where it's desperately needed.

November 3, 2023 | |

Israel SitRep: Nov. 3, 2023

Today’s Issue: Hezbollah Intensifies Attacks Ahead of Nasrallah Speech Hezbollah Intensifies Attacks Ahead of Nasrallah Speech Hezbollah claimed on November 2 that it launched two explosives-laden...

October 31, 2023 | |

Hezbollah Introduces New Missiles Into Conflict With Israel

Hezbollah changed its military tactics on October 29 by reportedly firing a surface-to-air missile for the first time in this conflict. The change is likely intended to counter Israeli...

June 2, 2023 | John Hardie |

UKRAINE REPORT: Russia, Ukraine Trade Missile and Drone Barrages as Counteroffensive Looms

Kyiv continues to pursue a weeks-long effort to set favorable conditions for success in its coming counteroffensive. These “shaping operations” aim to undermine the Russian military’s ability...

February 16, 2023 | |

Iran’s Provision of Missiles to Russia Remains Distinct Possibility

The European Union (EU) may soon sanction seven entities tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) that are providing drones to Russia, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing two EU officials. The potential targets include the IRGC Aerospace Force and the IRGC Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization, both of which also support Tehran’s ballistic missile program. While Iran has not supplied Russia with ballistic missiles, Moscow seeks to procure them from the Islamic Republic, according to Western officials. Should Iranian missiles reach Russia, they would likely strengthen Moscow’s ability to wreak havoc in Ukraine.

September 20, 2022 | |

A New Iran Deal Would Empower the Houthis

Iran would receive approximately $275 billion in sanctions relief during the first year of a new nuclear deal and more than $1 trillion by 2030, according to an FDD assessment. If past is prologue, a significant portion of these funds would flow to Iran’s network of terror proxy groups, including the Houthis in Yemen.

August 14, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s increased missile testing an apparent rebuke to U.S. pressure

Iran’s Minister of Defense ...

July 6, 2017 |

Time for Trump to Get Tough on China

On July 4, North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, fulfilling the threat Kim Jong Un delivered in his New Year’s Day message this past January. At the time, Donald Trump...

June 29, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Should Anyone Care about the Iranian Missile Strikes?

On Sunday June 18, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Aerospace Force (IRGC-AF)...

February 9, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iranian Ballistic Missile Tests Since the Nuclear Deal

FDD Research Memo

November 17, 2015 | |

Bearing Witness To A Nuclear North Korea

It’s a long way from Paris to Pyongyang, but as the world ponders the jihadi attacks on France, let us not lose sight of the menace emanating on the other side of the globe from a nuclear-a...

May 13, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

EU Moving Toward Ban of Hezbollah Military Wing

Co-authored by Jonny Paul The European Union has moved toward a consensus on outlawing the armed wing of Hezbollah, with its inclusion on the EU terror list slated to take place...

July 19, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Suicide Bomber Targeted Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria

The blast that killed seven people, including five Israelis, on bus at an airport in Burgas yesterday was carried out by a suicide bomber dressed as a Western tourist, the Bulgarian government sa...

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

July 6, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

MAD in the 21st Century

Mutually Assured Destruction may have been a sensible policy during the Cold War. It isn’t now.

April 29, 2011 | |

WikiLeaks: Journalist, Al Qaeda Jihadist, or Both?

There are two competing versions of former Guantanamo detainee Sami al Hajj’s story. The first, which has long been endorsed by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and many other jour...

July 15, 2010 | Shlok Vaidya The Long War Journal

Uganda attack carried out by Shabaab cell named after slain al Qaeda leader

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. Click to view. The top leader of Shabaab said that the deadly attacks in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, were carried out by a cell named after an al...