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October 27, 2025 | David Adesnik, Mariam Wahba, Ahmad Sharawi, David Daoud, Natalie Ecanow, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Bridget Toomey

Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood

October 17, 2025 | David Daoud |

Hezbollah holds massive ‘Sayyed’s Generations’ scouting event in Beirut

On Sunday, October 12, Hezbollah hosted a massive scouting event in Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Lebanon’s largest sporting complex. The event was dubbed “The Sayyed’s Generations”...

October 3, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Will Syria’s New President Live Up to the World’s Hope? The Signs Aren’t Good

Last week, Ahmad Sharaa became the first Syrian president in 60 years to visit New York for the UN General Assembly’s annual meeting.

August 6, 2025 | Bridget Toomey |

Houthis continue to attack education in Yemen

The Houthis are targeting education in northern Yemen, using schools to force their extremist ideology on young, impressionable Yemenis. Teachers and principals who refuse to comply with the Iran-backed...

June 24, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel

The ayatollahs adopted the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview to make the destruction of the Jewish state the regime’s holy cause. The Shia leadership in Najaf now has the chance to return the Shia world to pacifism

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...

June 17, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Yet Another ‘Divine Victory’

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June 7, 2025 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban emir decries ‘Zionist assaults and acts of oppression’ in Gaza

The emir of the Taliban denounced Israel’s military operations against Hamas and other terror groups as “Zionist assaults and acts of oppression” and said that his Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...

June 5, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Rocket fire marks first attack from Syria on Israel since Assad’s fall

On June 3, at approximately 10 pm Israeli time, two rockets were launched from Syrian territory and landed in the Golan Heights—the first such attack from Syria toward Israel since the fall...

April 30, 2025 | Bridget Toomey |

It’s Summer Break in Yemen, and the Children Are off to Houthi Boot Camp

The Houthis launched their 2025 children’s summer camps in April, even as the group faces U.S. retaliation for its attacks on Red Sea shipping and Israeli civilian targets. These camps have become a...

April 30, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Clashes erupt between Druze militias and pro-government forces in Syria

Sectarian tensions are flaring again in Syria after a series of clashes erupted in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, a diverse area home to Druze, Christian, and Muslim communities. Reports indicate...

March 3, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi, Joe Truzman

Nascent Syrian armed group emerges to confront Israeli forces

An armed organization calling itself The Islamic Resistance Front in Syria—Great Might (formerly known as The Front for the Liberation of the South) has issued statements warning the Israel Defense Forces...

February 4, 2025 | David Daoud |

Naim Qassem announces the date of Nasrallah’s funeral

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January 31, 2025 | |

Prominent Critic of Islam and Iran Murdered at Home in Sweden

Shot While Streaming on Social Media: A prominent free speech activist and critic of Islam known for staging public burnings of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, was murdered inside...

January 6, 2025 | Mariam Wahba

Turning the Page on Intolerance: Egypt’s Textbook Reforms

Egypt has made significant strides in purging school textbooks of antisemitic content and other problematic material, revising over 350 state-issued books since 2018 as a part of an ambitious reform program....

December 17, 2024 | Mariam Wahba |

Egypt Revises School Textbooks to Expunge Antisemitic Content

Egypt has made significant strides in purging school textbooks of antisemitic and anti-Christian content, with approximately 80 percent of Egyptian students in elementary and preparatory education now...

November 18, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iranian lawmaker: Time to match US, Israel’s nuclear arsenal

Reporting on the comments by state media shows that Iranian institutions likely agree with his stance and want to highlight it.

November 8, 2024 | Max Lesser, Ari Ben Am

U.S. and Israel Expose Iran’s Tenacious Malign Influence

The FBI, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Israel National Cyber Directorate published a joint cybersecurity advisory on October 30 detailing new tradecraft and operations by Emennet Pasargad,...

July 19, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

An ‘abject, squalid, shameless’ debate at the Oxford Union

An Israeli professor strikes back at the Union's disgraceful attempt to paint Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state.

January 25, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey’s Parliament Ratifies Sweden’s NATO Application

Turkey’s parliament decided by a vote of 287-55 on Tuesday to ratify Sweden’s accession to NATO. Ankara had been holding up the Swedish application for 20 months, hoping to leverage it to extract concessions...