On May 12, the United Arab Emirates’ official news agency, Emirates News Agency, announced that Abu Dhabi had designated 16 Lebanese nationals and five Lebanon-based entities to its terrorism...
Amid the war with Iran, the Trump administration has not forgotten about the Muslim Brotherhood. On May 6, the White House released its 2026 counterterrorism strategy, identifying the Muslim Brotherhood...
On April 27, the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program offered a $10 million reward for information on Haydar Muzhir Malak al Saidi, the leader of Harakat Ansar Allah al Awfiya,...
The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Islamic Action Front, is trying out a new name. Jordan’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) ordered the party to change its name under the...
The US Treasury Department designated seven commanders from four US-designated Iraqi terror groups as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) on April 17. The leaders come from...
The Trump administration made history on November 24, 2025, when it issued an executive order calling for the U.S. government to designate “certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist...
Iraqi militias loyal to the Iranian regime claimed that they shot down a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over western Iraq on March 12. The US military has confirmed that the tanker crashed but stated...
It has become clear that the White House intends to sustain pressure on violent islamist networks operating across the Middle East and beyond. On March 9, the United States Department of State announced...
Is Al Jazeera using its “academic” arm, the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (AJCS), to normalize Hamas’s atrocities, while hiding behind the veneer of a purportedly rigorous research institution?...
On January 16, against the backdrop of a possible American military operation against Iran, Kataib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) threatened that the group was ready to strike US bases in Iraq...
The US military killed an Al Qaeda leader who was involved in the December 13, 2025, attack that killed two US soldiers and a civilian contractor in Syria. US Central Command (CENTCOM) maintains that the...
Following the U.S. designation of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Jordan has accelerated its crackdown on the Islamist group. The U.S. decision is...
For more than a decade, Washington avoided a definitive judgment about the Muslim Brotherhood. That changed on January 13 when the U.S. State and Treasury departments designated three Muslim Brotherhood...
The United States took aim at Islamic Group (IG), the Muslim Brotherhood’s Lebanese branch on January 13. The U.S. State Department designated IG as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and designated...
Donald Trump’s recent executive order is the right approach to diminishing the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the Middle East, but further measures should target its broader financial support networks.
On December 10, several Iranian separatist groups belonging to the country’s Baluch minority announced that they will operate under the umbrella of the Popular Fighters Front (JMM). The new coalition...
On November 13, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear amid an increased American military presence off the coast of Venezuela. Hegseth stated that the...
On Sunday, September 23, 2025, an Israeli airstrike targeted the third and fourth floors of a residential building on Al Arid Street in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh suburbs...
After weeks of hinting that a major policy shift was imminent, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on November 24 directing the State and Treasury Departments to begin the process of...