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October 26, 2023 | John Hardie |

Ukraine Shows HAWK Air Defense System in Action for First Time

The Ukrainian Air Force commander on Monday shared the first public video of the American-made HAWK air defense system in action in Ukraine. In the video, the system’s MIM-23 surface-to-air...

October 22, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Hezbollah’s threats to Israel harm Christian Lebanese villages

The Hezbollah attacks are a result of Iran’s desire to create a multi-front war in the Middle East.

June 8, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

What to Expect From Erdogan’s Third Term

Erdogan has two priorities: to chart a more assertive presence for Turkey and to leverage Ankara’s position inside Western institutions to make that happen.

February 14, 2023 | Tony Badran |

America’s military exercise with Israel betrays its true plans

What are we to make of Juniper Oak, the latest and largest-ever joint military exercise held by the US and Israeli militaries in late January, as part of the longstanding Juniper series? Based on the...

October 2, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Iran’s attempt to force the US back to the JCPOA failed miserably

By attacking Saudi Aramco, Iran wanted to force the US to return to the JCPOA nuclear deal. It failed. The futility of Iran’s attempts to force the US to return to the nuclear deal was evident at the...

December 7, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

What if the Jihad Fails?

Napoleon famously preferred lucky generals to the most brilliant ones, and there is no doubt that luck plays an enormous role in life, whether through our own individual efforts or from earth-sha...

August 13, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Libya’s Islamist Counteroffensive

Co-authored by Nathaniel Barr Through much of June and the first half of July, fighting between the forces of rogue General Khalifa Hifter and Benghazi’s Islamist militias...

April 23, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

In Africa, a Real “War on Women”

Last week, more than a hundred Nigerian students, girls between 15 and 18 years of age, were kidnapped by the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists of Boko Haram. Most of the girls are still being held....

April 10, 2014 | |

Kuwait’s Embattled Justice Minister Part of Deeper Terror Finance Problem

A contentious battle over Kuwait’s reported role in terrorism finance is currently playing out in public. Earlier this year, the Kuwaiti Amir appointed a highly questionable figure to run h...

March 19, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

The Big Story — the Global War — Goes Mostly Unreported

The “news” is resolutely out of context.  A subject about which virtually nothing is known–the mystery of the missing airplane–gets saturation “coverage,”...

December 12, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The Disinformation Age

Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...

May 16, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Night at the Newseum

Inspire is a glossy, English-language, online magazine published by al-Qaeda. It was conceived by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric and al-Qaeda leader, who also contributed edit...

July 23, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Interrogating Terror

How tough justice keeps us free.

April 20, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Release Photos, Videos of Kabul Suicide Teams

The Afghan Taliban have released photos and videos of members of the suicide assault teams that attacked Kabul and the provincial capitals of Paktia, Logar, and Nangarhar earlier this week. The p...

March 2, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

When Was the Last al Qaeda Operative Killed or Captured in Afghanistan?

Over at The Nation (the US version, not...

February 27, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Why Apologize to Afghanistan?

We have officially lost our minds. The New York Times...

January 24, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The United Kingdom Bans Iran’s Media Outlet

The Guardian reported on Friday that Press TV, the English-language news outlet op...

January 8, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the...

January 5, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the...

January 5, 2012 |

FDD In The News

Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal What’s Obama’s Plan B After Arab League Monitors? Tony...