Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
North Africa
Congress Moves to Reassert Itself in Iran Policy Oversight
This week, Congress moved to sanction Iran, North Korea, and Russia in an attempt to reestablish the utility of financial restraints as a means of challenging the malign behavior of hostile regim...
Policy Briefs
Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers
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Legislative Testimonies
As pressure on IS grows, Western officials see terror threat ‘metastasizing’
As forces of an international coalition squeeze the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Western officials said they are bracing for a heightened terror threat by battle-hardened foreign fi...
Op-eds
Germany is a Hotbed of Iranian Spy Activity that Targets Israel
The German Interior Ministry notified a Left Party deputy last week that agents from Iran have been some of the most active spies in the Federal Republic between 2007 and 2017, including assassin...
Op-eds
The Real War in ‘Syria’ and the Strategy for Long-Term Victory
Of course I loathe Assad. And of course I despise the Obamans for that phony red line and the subsequent retreat-and-bogus-Russian-deal. But just carrying out vengeance against Assad isn’t...
Op-eds
Russia’s Charm Offensive in North Africa
With the world’s attention focused on the question of Russian influence in the United States and the European Union, the Kremlin is quietly making inroads in anot...
Op-eds
What’s Really Behind Trump’s Laptop Ban
More than 15 years after the September 11 hijackings, the U.S. government has issued yet another warning about airline security. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced ne...
Op-eds
Despite Recent Losses, Islamic State Still Threatens North and West Africa, FDD Study Finds
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 20 2017) – The decline of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria may paradoxically help the group in Africa, particularly as state and non-state actors shift resources...
Press Releases
Islamic State 2021
FDD Press
Monographs
Border disputes
Al Qaeda does not value diversity and it’s not an equal opportunity employer. The same can be said of the Islamic State. And when the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran want to commit a...
Op-eds
Will the Next Arab Revolt Be in Algeria?
A remarkable series of barely noticed counterterrorism operations, labor strikes, and social protests in Algeria in January showed that the North African country may be facing a year of upheaval....
Op-eds
Defending the civilized world
In an inaugural address that was more purposeful than poetic, President Trump last Friday vowed to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from...
Op-eds
Will the next Arab revolt be in Algeria?
A remarkable series of scarcely noticed counter-terrorism operations, labor strikes, and social protests in Algeria last week show the North African country may face a year of upheaval. Six years...
Policy Briefs
Protecting Palestine
Not long ago, I was talking to a Fatah official about Palestinian aspirations, especially his party’s sharp emotions about Hamas, the Palestinian fundamentalist movement that rules Gaza and...
Op-eds
Int’l outcry over imprisoned Iranian rights activist on hunger strike
The 70-day hunger strick by Iranian civil rights activist Arash Sadeghi, on the verge of death at Evin Prison in Tehran for protesting his wife’s incarceration, sparked a social media and p...
Op-eds
Throwing Israel to the U.N.’s wolves
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is, as its name suggests, an organization committed to jihad — against Isra...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Diplomatic Collision Course
The assassination Monday of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassad...
Op-eds
Analysis: Is the next ‘Arab Spring’ implosion around the corner?
The alarm bells sounding the impending youth revolt is perhaps the central takeaway from the UN’s report released Tuesday on the herculean challenges facing Arab states across the Middle Ea...
Op-eds
Al-Qaida on the Rise in Syria
The group that launched the Sept. 11 attacks, waged insurgent war against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, catalyzed extremist movements in places like Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, and was s...