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...
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...
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...
Westerners, too, are waging a ‘War on the West’
Plus, an explanation of "black cocaine" and why authorities should worry about charcoal exports.
On February 1, a military transport plane left a Russian airbase in Latakia, Syria, landed at an airfield...
Across Latin America, Iran’s public face appears innocuous: mosques, cultural centers...
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...
The U.S. has unique responsibilities. Is that so hard to understand?
On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security....
Scores of political dissidents are languishing in jail or have been executed.
That the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe might somehow escape the various "traps" – ethnic conflict, the "resource curse," poor governance, etc. – en...
In last week's column, surveying developments in the former Somalia, Sudan, the Maghreb and Sahel, Nigeria and West Africa, and the rest of the continent, I concluded that "Through the c...
By Dr. J. Pham A year and a half after it was first announced by President George W. Bush, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) becomes fully operational as the Pentagon's six...
Last week, gendarmes in the Senegal seaside resort of Nianing seized fifty-one 24-kilogram sacks containing a record 1.25 metric tons of cocaine with a street value of over $100 million....
Because of the sense of urgency repeatedly communicated by this column as well as the parallel efforts of other "Africa hands," the precarious situation of Nigeria – which I have described...
SAO PAULO - When I arrived in this sprawling commercial capital a few days ago, to speak at an international conference on “liberal democracy,” the last thing I expected was to find m...
Our enemies in Iraq have never won a battle against American forces. They hold not a single province, city or town. In fact, militarily they have achieved virtually nothing. So why is there a deb...
By Stephen Schwartz The victimized terrorists are variously thought to be directing their anger against Western-induced poverty; the Western-supported rise of Israel; or the Western impe...