Sierra Leone

November 7, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

US pushes for UN resolution on Gaza to support peace plan

The US is seeking a United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza “aimed at bolstering President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including by greenlighting an international security force,”...

October 16, 2025 | Ben Cohen, David May

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

December 19, 2024 | |

Unseen ‘Since the Nazis’: Syrians Uncover Mass Graves and Evidence of Assad Regime’s Atrocities

Hundreds of Thousands of Regime Victims Buried in Mass Graves: Human rights organizations are uncovering evidence of mass executions that occurred during the rule of ousted Syrian...

January 12, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Beware Hezbollah’s Dual-Nationals

Without stigmatizing diaspora communities or profiling their members, Western intelligence services must work against radicalization and incitement by targeting Hezbollah agents.

September 8, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Italy is about to say to Beijing, ‘Hit the road, Xi’

Rome's anticipated departure from the Belt and Road Initiative likely marks the end of the project’s grand European aspirations, Elaine Dezenski writes.

August 28, 2023 | |

Papua New Guinea to Open Jerusalem Embassy 

Latest Developments  Papua New Guinea’s prime minister will visit Israel next week to open an embassy in Jerusalem, a spokesperson for his office said on August 28. The inauguration, tentatively...

October 14, 2021 | David May |

Don’t Let Palestinian Recalcitrance Hold Israeli-African Relations Hostage

Palestinian advocacy groups and certain countries are pressuring the African Union (AU) to rescind Israel’s observer status, when the AU executive council meets this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....

April 13, 2021 | Craig Singleton |

Diplomatic Malpractice: Reforming the WHO After China’s COVID Cover-up

April 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Mischief in Morocco Is a Problem

Iran has historically supported any militancy against pro-Western regimes, regardless of their religious or political orientation.

March 5, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden’s Half Measures on Ebola Put the United States at Risk

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order on Tuesday detailing new public health measures in response to outbreaks of Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

December 10, 2020 | Mathew Ha |

U.S. Sanctions Companies Helping North Korea Export Illegal Coal

The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned six Chinese and Vietnamese companies and four ships – one flying Vietnam’s flag and three flying unknown flags – for exporting North Korean coal....

August 4, 2020 | James Rickards |

Crisis in Lebanon

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

May 1, 2020 | Mathew Ha, Andrea Stricker

UN Report Reveals North Korea’s Persistent and Evolving Maritime Sanctions Evasion Schemes

The UN Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) belatedly released a biannual report last week divulging North Korea’s persistent sanctions evasion activity, including its...

February 26, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Mystery Martyr

Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...

March 16, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Morocco Arrests Hezbollah Financier

 Lebanese media reported Tuesday that the tycoon and terror financier Qassem Tajeddin has been apprehended in Morocco before boarding a flight to Beirut. The U.S. Treasury Department...

February 27, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

Hezbollah: Alive in West Africa

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced new designations yesterday for several Africa-based individuals a...

July 14, 2014 | |

North Korean Ship Tests the Waters Near America’s Shores

It’s not often that North Korean-flagged freighters turn up near America’s shores, but when they do, they deserve attention. North Korea has a prolific record of arms smuggling, narco...

December 17, 2013 |

Hail to the French

This coming spring will mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, when as many as a million innocent civilians were butchered to death by Hutu tribal extremists in an orgy of bloodshed th...

February 27, 2013 |

Can a Scarred Muslim Nation Ever Get ‘Truth and Reconciliation’?

No one knows when or how Syria’s civil war will end. Nor Afghanistan’s fight against the Taliban. Nor Pakistan’s struggle against jihadis in its northwestern border region. Iran...

January 29, 2013 | |

A Tale of Iran, Syria and a Busy Oil Tanker

Although sanctions have forced Iran to cut back dramatically on its shipping traffic, some Iranian-linked vessels continu...