Morocco

January 22, 2025 | |

U.S. Green Card Holder From Morocco Carries Out Stabbing Attack in Tel Aviv

Four Men Injured in Stabbing Attack: A man who traveled to Israel from the United States on a tourist visa stabbed four Israelis in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on January 21. Israeli...

January 15, 2025 | |

‘Hamas Finally Agreed’: Israel-Hamas Reach Second Ceasefire and Hostage Deal After 15 Months of War

Hostage Deal Finalized: President Joe Biden announced on January 15 that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a finalized ceasefire deal that would see the release of some Israeli hostages...

January 1, 2025 | Caleb Weiss |

Islamic State release highlights the foreign-fighter nature of its recent assault in Somalia

A day after the Islamic State Somalia’s (ISS) brazen suicide assault against a Puntland military base—its most audacious attack to date in Somalia—the jihadist group released images of the men it...

November 28, 2024 | Eyal Hulata |

After COP29, Israel and the Region Can Reaffirm the Abraham Accords Vision

Cooperation on climate change is both an environmental necessity and a proven means of building peace with Israel’s Arab neighbors.

November 10, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Why did Israel’s new foreign minister embrace the Kurdish people?

Israel has long enjoyed positive relations with Kurdish people in the Middle East. It is part of a partnership between Jews and Kurds and also shared interests in the region

October 3, 2024 | |

Beijing’s Axis of Chaos

Today, China is the driving force behind much of the chaos we see around the world — from supporting rogue regimes such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea, to meddling in the Middle East, and interfering in America’s upcoming presidential election. FDD's China Program hosts a panel discussion featuring Matt Pottinger, FDD China Program Chairman and former Deputy National Security Advisor to discuss what steps can the US and its allies take to counter this unprecedented challenge.

October 2, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Across the Arab world, Nasrallah is remembered as a tyrant in Lebanon, a butcher in Syria and a fanatic

Lebanon now has the opportunity to take sovereignty back from the hands of Hezbollah

September 17, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

The Abraham Accords are not about Palestinians

Palestinians are welcome to join the Israel-Arab accords but if they’d prefer to keep fighting they’ll be on their own

September 16, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

On Abraham Accords anniversary, Iran pushes Gulf ties

The Houthis attacked Israel on September 15 on the anniversary of the Abraham Accords, and at 6:32am, symbolically almost the same time as the October 7 attack.

July 30, 2024 | |

Israeli Delegation Faces Threats and Abuse at Paris Olympics

French authorities opened an investigation into spectators who carried a banner declaring “Genocide Olympics,” chanted “Heil Hitler,” performed Nazi salutes, and otherwise...

July 10, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

What would a two-state solution solve?

Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran are fighting for an Islamic empire

May 19, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Gustavo Petro’s Anti-Israel Fantasy Has a High Price for Colombia

The Colombian president's severing of diplomatic relations with Israel will terminate a budding bilateral partnership.

April 27, 2024 | |

Blinken to Address Normalization With Israel During Visit to Saudi Arabia 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia on April 28 for the World Economic Forum. While in Riyadh, Blinken is expected to discuss the normalization of Saudi-Israeli...

April 9, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Israel’s Arab Neighbors Undermine Their Own Interests by Backing Iran

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxy militias have Jordan in their crosshairs, calling for mass protests against the government and promising to arm a militia of 12,000 Jordanians....

March 10, 2024 | Enia Krivine |

The two-state solution is a dangerous pipedream

Israel’s adversaries want all the land “from the river to the sea.”

February 6, 2024 | |

Blinken Visits Saudi Arabia to Broker Gaza Deal

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on February 5 to discuss a deal that would pause the Gaza war and free the remaining hostages....

October 25, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Hopeless on Gaza 

No decent person can support terrorism and genocide

October 24, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

Did Hamas just prove the Abraham Accords right? 

Four days after Hamas began its massacre of Israeli civilians, King Abdullah II of Jordan addressed his country’s parliament, telling lawmakers that Jordan’s “compass...

October 16, 2023 | Annie Fixler, Michael Sugden

U.S.-UAE Cybersecurity Cooperation Marks Needed Collaboration in the Region

The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cybersecurity cooperation. Against the backdrop of surging Iranian and criminal cyberattacks...

October 15, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Israel Enters the Gray Zone

REVIEW: 'Target Tehran: How Israel is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East'