Somalia

Cancel Russia’s UN Contracts

Congress should insist that U.S. dollars not fund United Nations procurement from Russian companies.

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

Paper Trail of Terror

In autumn of 2017, my colleague Thomas Joscelyn was invited to visit the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a long time coming. He and our colleague Bill Roggio at FDD’s Long War Journal had for...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: April

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: March

Biden Can Reset the UN’s Discriminatory Approach to Israel

The United States led when it persuaded the General Assembly to repeal its 1975 vote declaring Zionism to be racism. It should now actively and decisively lead the effort to end the Commission of Inquiry, which the UNHRC created to conclude essentially the same thing.

The Dynamic Terrorism Landscape and What It Means for America

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January

Syria Faces Omicron Amid a Shortage of Vaccines

As in other countries, statistics do not convey the extent of the suffering.

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

Dispatches from troubled lands

They deserve attention – BHL’s self-promotion notwithstanding

The Taliban Is Using the Doha Accord to Protect Al-Qaeda

That's one of many problems with ‘over the horizon’ counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan.

FDD provides testimony on Afghanistan

Will Turkey’s Détente with Egypt and the Gulf Extend to the Horn of Africa?

Although the extent to which the climate of détente will affect the Horn is not certain, the relative calm offers a unique opportunity for Washington to claim leadership and prevent the kind of violent rivalry that proved disastrous in Syria and Libya.

Taliban lionizes Haqqani commander who celebrated ties to Al Qaeda, held American hostage

The Taliban feted one of its famed commanders, Mullah Sangeen Zadran, on a new billboard that also showed Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who was held hostage by Sangeen and the Taliban for nearly five...

Juan C. Zarate ’97: ‘There’s a lot of presumption of the demise of American power, and I’m raging against that’

Former counterterrorism czar says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century

Al Qaeda praises Taliban’s ‘historic victory’ in Afghanistan

Al Qaeda’s senior leadership has released a two-page statement congratulating the Islamic ummah on the occasion of the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan. The brief message was distributed online by As...

Biden’s catastrophe

Responding to the disastrous fallout of his Afghanistan withdrawal, President Joe Biden declared that the “buck stops with me” — and then spent the rest of his first public address on the crisis...