How Cairo Is Failing the Palestinians
Egypt recently hosted top US and Israeli officials for Israel-Hamas ceasefire discussions. But nine months into a war that Hamas launched, Egypt has often exacerbated the conflict and largely...
National Public Radio
To Up the Pressure, Washington Must Sanction Russian ADRs
It will not be painless for American investors, but the pain Vladimir Putin will suffer will be far more.
Op-eds
Turkey Returns to Financial Action Task Force ‘Grey List’
This designation shows yet again that NATO member Turkey continues to offer a permissive jurisdiction for terror finance, sanctions evasion, and money laundering under the 19-year rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party.
Op-eds
Turkey Lands on Anti-Money Laundering Watchlist — Again
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Paris-based global money laundering and terror financing watchdog, added Turkey to its “grey list” on Thursday, placing Ankara alongside 22 other jurisdictions,...
Insights
Treasury Sanctions Jihadist Financiers in Turkey for the Seventh Time Since 2019
The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated five Turkey-based individuals on Thursday for providing a range of financial and travel facilitation services to al-Qaeda. The new designations — the seventh...
Policy Briefs
What to Expect From the Biden-Putin Summit
Biden wants ‘stable and predictable’ relations with Russia. Is that possible?
Op-eds
The Biden Administration’s Afghan ‘Peace Plan’ Is an Act of Desperation
On Sunday, March 7, an Afghan media outlet, TOLOnews, published a leaked letter from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to President Ashraf Ghani. TOLOnews also published an eight-page “peace”...
Op-eds
China Buys Turkey’s Silence on Uyghur Oppression
Turkey has joined the list of majority Muslim countries that have opted for silence in dealing with the one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time.
Op-eds
The pandemic hasn’t hit Syria hard yet. When it does, it’ll be a disaster.
Infections are rising in a country that’s unprepared for the coronavirus.
Op-eds
Voices of America
Obama holdovers run U.S. global media, and they’re not giving it up
Op-eds
What we know about Iran five years after Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
We have five years of experience to compare the competing assessments of 2015. Now we know that Netanyahu’s gloomy forecast has proven to be the more prescient.
Op-eds
New U.S. Weapon Strengthens Nuclear Deterrence of Moscow
The Department of Defense announced this week that the U.S. Navy has deployed a low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) nuclear warhead. This deployment, which aims to deter Russia’s first-use...
Policy Briefs
The sparkling waters of the West Bank
In this topsy-turvy world, if you’d like to see Palestinians living in peace, gainfully employed, with access to quality medical care and reason to believe tomorrow will be brighter than to...
Op-eds
Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran
The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...
Op-eds
Does Al Jazeera deserve to die?
The Gulf Cooperation Council comprises six nations, all of them Arab, Muslim, ruled by royals, and fabulously wealthy thanks to vast reserves of petroleum. With so much in common, you might expec...
Op-eds
Gates to be Keynote Speaker at FDD, Hudson, Center for Cyber & Homeland Security Event
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will be the keynote speaker at an event jointly hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Hudson Institute and the George Washington University...
Press Releases
Assessing U.S. Sanctions on Russia: Next Steps
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Congressional Testimonies
Defining violent extremism down
Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...
Op-eds
Taking Dictation From a Dictator
Last week, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, through his father-in-law’s organization in Britain, ...
Op-eds
Assad Regime’s Grotesque PR Conference in Damascus Uses Reporters to Whitewash War Crimes
Bashar al-Assad’s regime has pulled off a grotesque PR coup by corralling a number of prominent American journalists from outlets like The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Washing...