Muslims

June 22, 2025 | Bridget Toomey |

Houthis repeat threats against US over strikes against Iran

Yemen’s Houthis threatened to attack American forces in the Red Sea following US attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan on June 21. The US military struck...

June 18, 2025 | Sinan Ciddi, Tyler Stapleton

Erdogan Attempts to Rally the Muslim World Against Israel

Turkey wants pressure from Muslim leaders to hamstring Israel’s military campaign against Iran. Immediately following Israel’s precision strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, atomic scientists,...

June 18, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

A major battle in The Long War 

The roots of the current Middle East conflict trace back centuries

June 12, 2025 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Options for Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization

Once again a Trump administration is debating whether or not to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The last time around, during Trump’s first term, the effort petered out amidst...

June 9, 2025 | Ben Cohen, Ahmad Sharawi

10 Things to Know About the Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement dedicated to the remaking of society and government according to the dictates of Islamic law, or sharia. Founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna,...

June 9, 2025 | Steven A. Cook, Sinan Ciddi

The Struggle for Syria

On May 14, President Donald Trump stood smiling with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and Syria’s self-declared leader, Ahmed al-Shara’a, on the sidelines of the President’s visit...

June 7, 2025 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban emir decries ‘Zionist assaults and acts of oppression’ in Gaza

The emir of the Taliban denounced Israel’s military operations against Hamas and other terror groups as “Zionist assaults and acts of oppression” and said that his Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...

June 3, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Sudan Is the War No One Cares About

Over 150,000 dead and 11 million displaced are the result of war in Sudan that started months before the Gaza War, in 2023, and shows no sign of abating. Yet despite Sudan’s tragedy, the...

May 28, 2025 | Melissa Sacks, David May

U.S. Professors Flocking to Terrorist-Run Turkish Think Tank

The United States banished former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian for supporting terrorism. But some U.S. academics have flocked to him, like flies to manure. Since his deportation...

May 28, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

A secular jihadi brings the intifada to Washington

The Islamist/leftist alliance metastasizes

May 21, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

What Qatar wants, Qatar gets

How a tiny but extraordinarily wealthy emirate buys influence

May 20, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Last Stand in Jordan

For years, Jordan’s government opted to contain rather than confront the Muslim Brotherhood. That strategy has failed.

May 16, 2025 | Will Selber |

Former Michigan guardsmen detained for planning Islamic State-inspired attack on military base

On May 13, Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard, was detained for planning a mass casualty attack on the United States Army’s Tank-Automotive...

May 14, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Trump halts the Indo-Pakistan conflict

The ceasefire is an achievement but don’t confuse that with peace

May 9, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

When did the current wave of antisemitism begin?

To my mind, the sickening fate of journalist Daniel Pearl signaled the beginning of the revived trend that Jews are still confronting.

May 7, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Can Syria’s New Government Protect the Country’s Minorities?

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails in preventing sectarian tensions from erupting into wide-scale violence.

May 6, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon’s Ossified Left and Its Stance on Palestine

After the French Revolution of 1789, the king conceded some of his powers to Parliament. His supporters sat to his right and his opponents to his left. Forever after, the Right denoted supporters of the...

May 4, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, Marina Chernin

Serbian and Russian Orthodox Churches Unite Against West

As part of Russia’s plan to undermine cohesion in Europe, it hopes to pull Serbia away from its path toward the EU by emphasizing traditional Orthodox ties.

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‘Clear Message to the Syrian Regime’: Israel Conducts Airstrike Near Syrian President’s Palace as Druze Minority Faces Attacks

Israel Will Protect Syrian Druze: Israeli warplanes bombed a target adjacent to the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus on May 2 as attacks on the Druze minority have continued....

April 30, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Clashes erupt between Druze militias and pro-government forces in Syria

Sectarian tensions are flaring again in Syria after a series of clashes erupted in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, a diverse area home to Druze, Christian, and Muslim communities. Reports indicate...