Israel’s Bashan Arrow operation in Syria continues
As the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was collapsing on December 8, Israel set in motion a contingency plan that anticipated the situation. In recent weeks, the military intelligence...
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Crisis Of The Iranian Order
The “transnational”: this is how Qassem Soleimani, the former head of Iran’s Qods Force, who was killed in a January U.S. missile strike in Baghdad, is described in Hezbollah-run schools in Lebanon....
Op-eds
Winning the Peace: America is Not on the Road to Victory Yet
On a conventional battlefield, America is second to none. Slowly and painfully, we also are mastering the skills necessary to win a low-intensity but high-anxiety war against a shadow army of ins...
Op-eds
The Press Botches Basra
Less than 48 hours after Iraqi security forces began their campaign against militant Shia factions in Basra, the media had already declared the operations a failure. The operations, which were in...
Op-eds
Senior Special Groups leader captured at Baghdad airport
Click the image to view the most wanted Mahdi Army leaders in Baghdad. The US military detained a senior Special Groups leader as he flew into Baghdad International Airport this...
Op-eds
Mahdi Army decimated during recent fighting
The Mahdi Army suffered a significant blow during fighting against Iraqi and Coalition forces this year, according to an Iraq intelligence report. The heavy casualties suffered by the Mahdi...
Op-eds
Operations target Mahdi Army in South
Iraqi security forces continue to target the Sadrist movement and the Mahdi Army in the southern provinces of Maysan, Dhi Qhar, and Wasit over the weekend. More than 113 Mahdi Army fighters...
Op-eds
Maysan operation continues to target Sadrist leaders
The Iraqi security forces have detained five senior Sadrist leaders and a department director in Maysan province during Operation Promise of Peace. The Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the Sad...
Op-eds
Know Thy Enemies
SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and govern...
Op-eds
Europe’s Munich Moment
In March 2003, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the current French Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin -- then his country's foreign minister -- condemned the Coalition of the Willin...
Op-eds
Symposium: Proving Saddam’s WMDs
Despite the antiwar Left's favorite mantra about how Bush lied regarding WMDs in Iraq, the evidence now proves there were WMDs after all. According to recent announcement made by Se...
Op-eds
Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates
By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l...
Op-eds
The Grandeur That Is Rome; Italian Courage in the War on Terrorism
Those who fear that America has no European allies should pay a visit to Rome. Actually, one should seize any excuse to go to Rome - to view the architecture and art, to sample the food...