North Africa

Remember Lepanto

A great battle in a war not yet ended

Turkey Continues to Harbor and Sponsor Extremists

New sanctions on Turkey remind us of the country's unsavory connections to the terrorist underworld.

U.S. designates al Qaeda financial facilitator based in Turkey

The U.S. Treasury Department announced today that two money men working for al Qaeda and Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS) have been designated. The designations are part of a broader U.S. effort to sanction...

Treasury Sanctions Jihadist Financiers in Turkey – For the Fifth Time in Two Years

The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated a Turkey-based company and three Turkey-linked individuals on Monday for facilitating the Islamic State’s (IS’) financial networks and transactions. The...

OPCW Member States Must Counter Russian Obstruction

Iran’s Mischief in Morocco Is a Problem

Iran has historically supported any militancy against pro-Western regimes, regardless of their religious or political orientation.

Russia

The Jihadist Threat Persists

The forgotten refugees of the Middle East

Jews who were forced to flee from their homes in Arab lands

The United Nations: Erdogan’s Favorite Platform for Trolling the World

The United Nations General Assembly, which meets every September, offers authoritarian heads of state their favorite platform for trolling the world. For this year’s 75th annual session, Turkish president...

‘Blue Homeland’ And The Irredentist Future Of Turkish Foreign Policy

Turkey and Greece, two NATO allies, nearly experienced a full-fledged military conflict in August. Two of their warships collided during a naval standoff over hydrocarbon exploration in the Eastern...

The Battle of Hagia Sophia: Erdogan’s Conquest of the Turkish Republic

This will set a dangerous precedent, emboldening supremacists not only in Turkey but also in the Middle East and North Africa.

Crisis in Lebanon

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

COVID-19 and Erdogan’s Power Consolidation

Since the rise to power of the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey in 2002, its leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used successive crises as pretexts to consolidate power that has...

Turkish Proxy Gains in Libya are No Cure for Ankara’s Growing Isolation

Ankara’s growing military footprint in Libya is President Recep Erdogan’s effort to compensate for his failure to establish Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated governments in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.

US politicians blast Algeria for church closures

Algerian authorities shut one church because it ‘celebrates non-Muslim worship’

Data Visualization: COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa

COVID-19 in Egypt

As political and economic difficulties from COVID-19 challenge the stability of the Egyptian government, Cairo has responded by tightening control – an effort that opposition forces claim is designed...

Algeria’s ‘Revolution of Smiles’ Democracy Movement Hit Hard by COVID-19

The coronavirus outbreak has provided Algeria’s regime a pretext to consolidate its political control by repressing independent media and activists affiliated with the Hirak democratic protest movement....

FDD Announces Research Series on COVID-19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Washington DC, April 6, 2020) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) announced a new series of research products focused on COVID-19. The research is designed to help...