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June 25, 2020 | Bradley Bowman |

Congressional Momentum Builds to Establish U.S.-Israel Working Group

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, and it includes a provision to require the establishment of...

June 19, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Washington’s Muted Response Emboldens Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy

A Turkish court on June 11 convicted Metin Topuz, a Turkish national and liaison officer for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, to eight years and nine months...

April 13, 2020 | David May |

COVID-19 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories

Israel’s COVID-19 outbreak has profoundly impacted the country’s domestic political and economic situation. Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority (PA) is better than expected, but a...

February 27, 2020 | David Adesnik |

In Syria, Trump should act to save thousands of lives

There is a humanitarian emergency in northwest Syria in the province of Idlib. The population there was already suffering from the long and brutal civil war that began in 2011, but a new offensive by...

December 18, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Progress on ‘the Jewish question’

Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.

September 11, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Ayman al-Zawahiri defends 9/11 hijackings in anniversary address

Ayman al-Zawahiri defends the 9/11 hijackings in a video released on the 18th anniversary of al-Qaeda’s most devastating attack. The production, released by al-Qaeda’s As Sahab propaganda arm, is titled...

May 3, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Did German bank close account of Israeli news website due to antisemitism?

In a telephone conversation with Deutsche Bank, the bank told 'Israel Heute' that "it did not have to justify the decision and therefore would not say anything more."

October 12, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Khashoggi Crisis Holds a Mirror to Turkey

Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The Turkish government alleges...

August 23, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

The Pastor is Not the Only U.S. Hostage in Turkey

Turkish-American relations are at a boiling point. This month, the United States not only ...

July 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel’s ambassador convinces Berlin’s Jewish museum to cancel BDS speaker

Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, complained to the head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin about a hardcore anti-Israel speaker, prompting the museum’s director to pull...

April 16, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?

On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...

January 3, 2018 | Grant Rumley

Mahmoud Abbas Doesn’t Have a Trump Strategy

To hear Palestinian leaders tell it, their relationship with the Trump administration has now been simplified. “We will sever all ties with the Americans,” Ahmed Majdalani, a confidan...

August 15, 2017 | Tony Badran |

The Pentagon Fills Hezbollah’s Shopping List

In recent years, federal law enforcement agencies have repeatedly arrested Hezbollah operatives in the US who were trying to procure weapons and other combat-related equi...

October 4, 2016 | David Weinberg

Americans Can Sue Saudi Arabia Now. So What?

Congress overrode...

September 14, 2016 | John Hannah |

Russia’s Middle East Offensive

Even before Russian bombers launched strikes into Syria from an Iranian air base last month, it was clear that one of President Barack Obama’s more dubious foreign policy legacies would be...

September 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Palestinian Authority ‘probably’ pays terrorist families, admits German gov’t

The acknowledgment by the German government is believed to be the first Federal Republic public statement that the PA aids terrorists and their families. Volker Beck, the German Green MP...

August 24, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Joe Biden’s Challenge in Turkey

The stakes for Vice President Joe Biden’s travels this week...

July 27, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Turkey tries to trap Obama with extradition demand

Is President Barack Obama willing to damage America’s relationship with a critical NATO ally over the fate of an elderly Muslim man living in the Poconos? Turkey is trying to find...

July 22, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Despite Coup Failure, Turkish Democracy Still at Risk

The Cipher Brief: It’s been about a week since the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erodgan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led g...

July 21, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Turkey’s Strongman Will Exploit The Failed Coup

Turkey may have thwarted a military coup d’etat on Friday night, but the result will almost certainly be the precipitous decline of Turkey’s democracy...