Security

March 11, 2021 | Trevor Logan |

Microsoft and CISA Warn of Chinese State Hackers Targeting Windows Exchange Servers

Microsoft and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued alerts last week warning that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had leveraged previously undiscovered vulnerabilities to harvest...

March 16, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

In the Aftermath of an Assassination Attempt Against the Palestinian PM, Conspiracy Theories Abound

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah emerged visibly shaken but unscathed after an assassination attempt on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip. The soft-spoken former academic arrived in Ga...

February 20, 2018 | Tony Badran

Rex Tillerson Babbles in Beirut While Middle East War Looms

Sec. of State Rex Tillerson visited Lebanon last Thursday, and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly a shining moment for U.S. diplomacy. Tillerson was made to sit...

November 15, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Orange Telecom Mulls Partnership with IRGC-Controlled Firm

The French telecom company Orange is in negotiations to buy shares of the Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (MTCI...

June 28, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz |

Risky Business In Iran

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the intergovernmental organization that sets global standards to combat money laundering and finance for terrorism and proliferation, had a clear message f...

July 16, 2015 | Claudia Rosett |

Nuclear Extortion: Pioneered by North Korea, Perfected by Iran

With implications reaching far beyond the Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal opens the gates not to a safer world, but to proliferation on a scale likely to defy any peaceful efforts at containme...

November 10, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Obama’s Weak Diplomacy with Iran

The Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee...

September 30, 2013 | |

Iran, the U.N.’s New Authority On Nuclear Disarmament

With Iran pushing toward nuclear breakout ability at home, while peddling what some have dubbed “charm” abroad, there were plenty of odd moments as Iran’s President Hassan Rouha...

July 25, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Cause for Celebration in Syria

The fall of Assad’s pro-Iranian regime is a net gain for the US, even if what replaces it isn’t a reliable ally

March 26, 2012 |

Don’t Stay the Course

He couldn’t name a single one. In this tense campaign season, al-Qaeda is very much in the front of the Obama administration’s mind. In fact, admini...

March 1, 2012 | Rebeccah Heinrichs Roll Call

Obama Suffering From Defense Rhetoric Gap

The nation’s top military official concedes that President Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Pentagon’s budget will leave the United States with a force that assumes more risk and...

April 26, 2010 | Ethan Gutmann World Affairs Journal

Hacker Nation: China’s Cyber Assault

A  decade before Operation Aurora—China’s recent hacking spree of at least thirty-four Western companies—the Chinese government attempted to seize American computer code th...

August 19, 2008 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Russia, Georgia, the UN ‘ and Where is Kofi Annan When He’ s Really Needed?

As Russian troops loot, shoot and roll short-range missiles into Georgia, surely UN tradition calls for the Secretary-General to protest this invasion of sovereign territory...

October 18, 2007 |

Al Qaeda in Iraq on the Run


Al Qaeda in Iraq on the Run Al Qaeda is on the horns of a dilemma. Last month, some 30 of its senior leaders in Iraq were killed or captured. Now, Osama bin Laden faces a tough decision: Send reinforcements to Iraq in an attempt to regain the initiative? That risks losing those combatants, too -- and that could seriously diminish his global organization. But the alternative is equally unappealing: accept defeat in Iraq, the battlefield bin Laden has called central to the struggle al Qaeda is waging against America and its allies.

June 6, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Securing the New Strategic Gulf

In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush issued a call for the United States to "replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025" and to "make...

January 2, 2007 |

Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime

On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavor...

February 7, 2006 | FrontPageMagazine

Aiding the Policenet

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiti...