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November 30, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran continues to use drones in its shadow war against Israel

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.

November 22, 2023 | Bradley Bowman, Ryan Brobst

Tehran’s terror proxy in Yemen targets Israel and international shipping

Footage of Houthi forces hijacking the ship Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea yesterday. pic.twitter.com/PSFLpV4FLA— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) November 20, 2023 ...

November 3, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iran’s Ever-Expanding Ring of Fire

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...

May 6, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah Is Missing from President Biden’s Corruption Agenda

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.

December 13, 2022 | Caleb Weiss |

German national freed in the Sahel after years of jihadist captivity

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...

November 28, 2022 | |

Iran Linked to Attack on Commercial Tanker

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...

March 24, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Prepare for covert war in Ukraine

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...

August 6, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Deference

Biden’s appeasement of Iran has let the regime become more brazen.

September 6, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban assaults Farah City

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...

September 5, 2019 | |

Suicide bombing in Kabul is the latest in Taliban wave of attacks

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...

November 29, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Erdoğan’s Interests Converge with Putin in Moldova’s Gagauzia

BACKGROUND: On October 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan touched down in Chisinau for a ...

August 8, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir |

How Russia Plans to Get Turkey on Its Side

June has been a tough month for the board of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the joint Turco-Russian megaproject and Turkey&rs...

July 26, 2016 | Michael Ledeen |

Who’s Hillary’s Hacker And Why?

The Twitter crowd has devoted a lot of bandwith to the theory that the Wikileaks dump on the DNC is a Russian operation.  They may well be right, although I wouldn’t take Joshua Micah...

February 19, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Targeting Tehran’s Euros

The ECB's Target2 payment system has become critical to the regime since US financial sanctions curtailed its dollar business

July 27, 2012 |

A ‘History-Cleansing’ Campaign

The arrest in Budapest last week of Laszlo Csatary - a 97-year-old former police officer accused of Holocaust-era war crimes...

December 19, 2011 |

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’

In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...

November 4, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Reflections on Osama bin Laden, and his Continuing Relevance

Earlier today, I did a rather lengthy written interview with a journalist from an online Romanian newspaper. In light of the new tapes Osama bin Laden released last month, he put a number of ques...

October 30, 2008 |

Afghan Awakening

IN SEPTEMBER of 2008, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a remarkable statement. He said, "I'm not convinced we're winning in Afghanistan. I am conv...

December 17, 2003 | Front Page Magazine

Saddam: The Ceaucescu of the Arabs

What happened Saturday in Iraq? Yes, coalition forces captured Saddam Hussein. But that was only the tip of the iceberg. The historic moment is in fact broader, more significant and comprehensive...