Sudan

November 5, 2026 | Ari Ben Am |

No To Lana: Turkey and Sudan-Aligned Campaign Targets UAE’s UN Candidate

The U.S. midterm elections are over, but the campaign to select the next UN secretary-general is just heating up. On October 21, Lana Nusseibeh, former ambassador to the UN from the United Arab Emirates...

November 3, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Global Hypocrisy Shields Sudan’s SAF From Justice

On October 19, a drone strike devastated a busy market in Abyei, the disputed border region between Sudan and South Sudan, killing at least 153 people. South Sudanese officials blamed the Sudanese Armed...

October 20, 2026 | Edmund Fitton-Brown, Grant Wishard

The Thaw in U.S.-Ethiopia Relations Has Gone Far Enough

Ethiopia’s domestic war with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has now become an international conflict involving Eritrea. These actors are old rivals — all three participated in the Tigray...

October 20, 2026 | Andrea Stricker |

Washington Reportedly Limits Funding to Key WMD Verification Agencies

Two leading international nonproliferation agencies identified by the State Department as directly advancing “U.S. national security, economic interests, and global stability” are nonetheless facing...

October 20, 2026 | Michele Kernitsky |

How Russia Is Eclipsing the U.S. in Africa

The Kremlin is preparing to showcase its steadily growing influence in Africa, which has often come at Washington’s expense. On October 28-29, Moscow will host more than 30 African delegations for the...

October 14, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

A most ignoble Nobel Peace Prize

Navi Pillay deserves denunciation, not accolades

October 13, 2026 | Ben Cohen, David May

Navi Pillay’s Undeserved Nobel Peace Prize

This year’s winner has a long history of blaming Israel for the world’s problems.

September 25, 2026 | Ben Cohen |

The UN is still obsessed with Israel

Antisemitism simmers within the world body, most notably these days in the actions and words of Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the “occupied Palestinian territories.”

September 14, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Palestinians Must Heed the Lesson of Nasser’s Aswan Dam

Real progress for Palestinians and the wider Arab world requires breaking free from emotional gridlock and making peace.

September 11, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

The UN Arms Embargo on Sudan Is Broken. America Has a Plan to Fix It

The U.S. is rightly pushing the UN Security Council to expand the Sudan arms embargo before it expires this Saturday. Outlined by Ambassador Mike Waltz and Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, the proposal...

September 7, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

The New Islamic Empire: Will Turkey Inherit Iran’s Mantle?

Despite being 1,000 miles apart and in different time zones, Turkey and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) maintain a military partnership that operates in direct violation of a standing UN arms embargo....

August 26, 2026 | Clifford D. May

The legacy of Carlos the Jackal 

He instructed revolutionary leftists to march behind Islamists – and they’re marching

August 12, 2026 | Daniel Vaynshteyn, Ivana Stradner

Vučić Welcomes Zelensky in Serbia: Turning Point or Tactical Gambit?

On Saturday, Volodymyr Zelensky made his first official visit to Serbia, a country long seen as one of Russia’s closest European partners. For some in the West, it was proof that Serbian President Aleksandar...

August 12, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

Islamism 101

America’s leaders refuse to do their homework

August 10, 2026 | Caleb Weiss, Akim Mukasa

From Guantanamo Bay to ISCAP: The case of Jamal Kiyemba

On August 3, Jamal Kiyemba, a Ugandan who previously resided in the United Kingdom, was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison in Kampala for his support of the Allied Democratic Forces...

August 6, 2026 | Mariam Wahba, Angelo Schiciano

Sudanese Armed Forces gains in civil war force strategic adjustment from paramilitia rival

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that has been engaged in a more than three-year civil war against the state’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced a recalibration of its forces...

July 29, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen |

When Paris Celebrates the Bankruptcy of Human Rights

On Monday, July 27, at the United Nations Security Council, American diplomats stood up and walked out as the French ambassador began to speak. Ukraine was the item on the agenda that day. In Moscow and...

July 29, 2026 | Sinan Ciddi |

Erdogan’s rivalry with Israel has a new front: Africa

The answer becomes clearer once the South African relationship is placed inside Turkey’s broader African buildup, which has been running for two decades and has little to do with Israel at all.

June 28, 2026 | Edmund Fitton-Brown |

The UN’s toxic obsession with Israel lets the world’s worst regimes off scot-free

An absurd report claiming that Israel has committed genocide is the latest example

June 22, 2026 | Mariam Wahba |

Sudan Turns Away From Iranian Weapons in Hopes of Courting Washington

Sudan’s civil war, now in its fourth year, has become one of Africa’s first drone wars. Yet the drones dominating this battlefield are overwhelmingly foreign. From approximately 3,000 miles away,...