On Tuesday, Kevin Rideout, an American missionary in the West African state of Niger, was abducted from his home in the country’s capital, as first reported by CBS News. Rideout had lived in Niamey...
Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch...
Russian drones are increasingly threatening NATO, and Iranian support has helped make recent violations of NATO airspace possible. Poland reported increased drone activity near its border this week, as...
After Ukraine and Russia’s agreement to a Black Sea ceasefire as part of broader talks being brokered by the United States in Saudi Arabia, the next step is to design a coalition maritime force...
By using drones, which fly low and slow, Tehran is engaging in graduated escalation, in the hopes of forcing Israel to absorb the threat, rather than feel compelled to respond.
Footage of Houthi forces hijacking the ship Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea yesterday. pic.twitter.com/PSFLpV4FLA— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) November 20, 2023 ...
Distance does not buy security. Over 1,000 kilometers away from the Jewish State, Yemen’s Houthi rebels or Ansar Allah – the helpers of God – as they style themselves, have made good on...
Making global corruption a national security priority is the right decision. Recognizing Hezbollah’s systematic reliance on corruption to facilitate its illicit finance networks would make the White House strategy more effective.
Late last week, German national Jorg Lange was freed in the Sahel after spending the last four years being held by the Islamic State’s Sahel Province (more commonly known as the Islamic State in the Greater...
A U.S. Navy lab confirmed Iran’s connection to a November 15 drone attack on the Liberian-flagged, Israeli-linked commercial tanker M/T Pacific Zircon, according to a press release...
If the West isn’t willing to watch Vladimir Putin win in Ukraine yet also aren’t willing to intervene directly to stop him, then they will likely need to devise extensive clandestine means to supply...
Biden’s appeasement of Iran has let the regime become more brazen.
The Taliban has attacked another provincial capital, this time Farah City in the west. Video shows Taliban fighters inside the city. From Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Will report on this in detail...
The Taliban killed at least 10 people, including an American and a Romanian soldier, and wounded 42 more in a suicide bombing near a National Directorate of Security checkpoint in the Afghan capital of...
Moldova has made a serious effort to reform itself and break free from Moscow’s sphere of influence. But it needs Western support.
BACKGROUND: On October 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan touched down in Chisinau for a ...
June has been a tough month for the board of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the joint Turco-Russian megaproject and Turkey&rs...