Two More ‘High’ Risk Detainees Transferred from Gitmo
Secretary of State John Kerry praised the Republic of Senegal today “for offering humanitar...
North Africa
The Islamic State’s Global Propaganda Strategy
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague
Monographs
Operation Hemorrhage: The Terror Plans to Wreck the West’s Economy
Every European who flies frequently knows the airport in Zaventem, has spent time in the ticketing area that was strewn with blood, limbs, broken glass, battered luggage and other wreckage. ...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Growing Threat Against U.S. National Security Interests in the Middle East
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Legislative Testimonies
Osama bin Laden’s ‘Bookshelf’ Reveals al Qaeda’s Long Game
When 113 new documents recovered in 2011 during the fatal raid on...
Op-eds
European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?
To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...
Op-eds
Treasury sanctions Islamic State oil and religious officials, facilitator in Gaza
The US Treasury Department announced today that three Islamic State officials have been sanctioned f...
Op-eds
A Dangerous Combination
Co-authored by John Schindler Two weeks ago, al Qaeda-linked jihadists attacked the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso and murdered 28 people, including an American missionary. It w...
Op-eds
The threat to America’s national existence
President Obama judged the Islamic State the “JV team,” boasted that he’d set al Qaeda “on its heels” and implemented successful counterterrorism policies in Yemen....
Op-eds
North African Men Suspected of Stoning Transgender Women in German City
Three young men from North Africa were arrested on Saturday in the western German city of Dortmund for stoning two transgender women. According to a report on Friday on television statio...
Op-eds
The Greek- Israel Tango: 2015 a Good Year
Two key events over the last month marked the complex tango between Greece and Israel. First, the step forward: Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Kotzias announced in a letter to Israel&rsquo...
Op-eds
Britain’s Corbyn Is No Laughing Matter
"Few people outside Britain have ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn," the British journalist Nick Cohen ...
Op-eds
Memo to Presidential Campaign Advisers
This memorandum is addressed to the brave souls advising presidential candidates. As you know, the recent terrorist attacks in France – and in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Turke...
Op-eds
New Report Outlines Ways to Combat Islamic State’s Antiquities Trafficking
FDD Press Release
Press Releases
What to Do About the Kidnapping for Ransom Problem
President Obama announced the results of a study to overhau...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Green Beret Michael Waltz as Non-Resident Senior Fellow
WASHINGTON - Michael Waltz, a lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces (reserve component), has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident senior fellow. Waltz, who...
Press Releases
Druze Clues
Co-written by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi The market for extremism has been so disrupted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and its penchant for extraordinary...
Op-eds
U.S. Blacklists Dozens Linked to Islamic State
U.S. officials on Tuesday levied asset freezes and travel bans against 30 individuals and entities for joining the Islamic State or otherwise aiding the group’s military operations and terr...
Op-eds
Treasury and State Department Target Islamic State Financiers
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced this morning the terrorism designations of 15 Islamic State (IS)...
Policy Briefs
The Turkish Kristallnacht
A belated commemoration — 60 years lat...