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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’

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.

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...

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review

Thinking about Terrorism and Other Security Challenges in Africa

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...

October 2, 2008 | Worl Defense Review

AFRICOM Stands Up

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...

July 10, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

The Security Challenge of West Africa’s New Drug Depots

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....

July 4, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Cabinda: The “Forgotten Conflict” America Can’t Afford to Forget

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...

May 17, 2006 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

The Brazilian Connection

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...

July 6, 2005 | Clifford D. May

The Enemy’s Strategy

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...

May 31, 2003 | The Dissident

The Real Roots of Islamic Extremism

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...