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July 31, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen |

Border Crisis Exposes Spain’s Self-Inflicted Migration Mess

Tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, Spain’s enclave on the North African coast, on July 30, most swimming around a breakwater as Moroccan border controls lapsed. Dozens drowned. Within...

April 30, 2026 | Charlie Laderman |

When will Britain protect its citizens?

There was a time that Britain prided itself on protecting its citizens – whatever their religion – wherever they were in the world. Now the government is reluctant to defend them from foreign...

August 19, 2025 | Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi  |

Iran’s web of terror and propaganda: The case of Al Mustafa University

Last July, Israel’s ambassador to Argentina gave an interview to Latin America’s leading news platform, Infobae, where he named Edgardo Ruben (aka Suhail) Assad, Abdallah Cerrilla, and Abdul...

June 22, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

How might Iran retaliate against the US?

Few Iranian officials have responded publicly to the US strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear sites on June 21—an understandable silence, given that many leaders have either been eliminated by...

November 19, 2024 | Natalie Ecanow |

Qatar’s Sportswashing Strategy: What the Latest Headlines on European Soccer Didn’t Tell You

Paris’ Stade de France stadium appeared more like a fortress than a soccer arena ahead of the UEFA Nations League match between France and Israel on November 14. French authorities increased security...

July 12, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

‘The Neck and the Sword’ is Rashid Khalidi’s distortion of history

The Palestinian intellectual is in denial of the long history of antisemitism in the Muslim world.

April 13, 2024 | |

Iran Seizes Israel-Linked Ship

Iran seized an Israeli-linked, Portuguese-flagged commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz on April 13. Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boarded the MSC...

December 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Time for the Biden Administration to Clip the Wings of Iran’s Propaganda Machine

On December 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Al Mustafa International University in Qom, Iran, the principal institution recruiting, indoctrinating, and training foreign converts...

June 22, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The friends of our enemies

Westerners, too, are waging a ‘War on the West’

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson

Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists

An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement

September 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Hezbollah Collaborates With Latin American Drug Cartels

Plus, an explanation of "black cocaine" and why authorities should worry about charcoal exports.

June 11, 2019 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Trump’s Iran Crackdown Isn’t Enough to Stop Hezbollah

Unless Washington targets the group more effectively, it can outlive the pressure on Tehran.

January 9, 2019 | Clifford D. May

Crying for Argentina

A promising nation that made unwise political and economic choices.

February 13, 2017 | Oren Kessler |

Egypt Picks Sides in the Syrian War

On February 1, a military transport plane left a Russian airbase in Latakia, Syria, landed at an airfield...

April 28, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah: Iran’s Henchmen in Brazil

Across Latin America, Iran’s public face appears innocuous: mosques, cultural centers...

March 7, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Washington must resist Europe’s pressure over Visa Waiver Program

In December, Congress passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act. The legislation created exceptions to the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), including for dual citiz...

November 1, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

American Exceptionalism and Its Discontents

The U.S. has unique responsibilities. Is that so hard to understand?

April 6, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

Something Rotten in Germany

On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security....

September 15, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal, Mark Dubowitz

Iran’s Victims

Scores of political dissidents are languishing in jail or have been executed.

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

São Tomé and Príncipe: An African Exception?

That the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe might somehow escape the various "traps" – ethnic conflict, the "resource curse," poor governance, etc. – en...