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June 28, 2024 | Bradley Bowman |

Cognitive Combat

China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans

December 16, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review

June 30, 2021 | Tony Badran |

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

June 7, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Bringing the Middle East Back Home

The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas

May 18, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Lebanon’s Interwoven Fantasy Worlds All Lead to War With Israel

How much should America pay to maintain the fraying fabric?

September 4, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Any Way You Slice it, Hezbollah Had a Very Bad Month

Israeli strikes inside Lebanon together with new U.S. sanctions suggest a significant change in policy toward the terror group.

May 31, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Hezbollah Isn’t Broke. So Why Is Everyone Claiming Otherwise?

U.S. officials claiming that sanctions against Iran have put the Lebanese terrorist organization in dire financial straits are cherry-picking evidence to paint a misleading picture

March 14, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Hezbollah’s Deadly Lies

For years, the terrorist organization duped the expert class into believing it was peacefully evolving. Now that many have wised up, new and more dangerous fictions emerge.

January 16, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Arafat and the Ayatollahs

The PLO’s greatest single contribution to the Iranian Revolution was the formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but the Palestinian leader’s involvement with Iran didn’t end there.

December 13, 2018 | Tony Badran |

The Curtain is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly-Dance

What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?

December 2, 2018 | Tony Badran |

Standing With Saudi Arabia

How President Donald Trump has been forthright about the actual drivers of American policy in the Middle East

November 7, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Lebanese PM Sa’ad Hariri Cancels His Deal With the Devil, Leaving Lebanon in the Hands of Iran

On Saturday, Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation in a televised speech from Saudi Arabia. In the speech, Hariri cited Iran’s control of Le...

October 27, 2017 | Tony Badran |

American Policy in Lebanon Isn’t Policy. It’s Poetry.

The commander of Lebanon’s Armed Forces (LAF), General Joseph Aoun, was in Washington on an official ...

September 25, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Unless It Is Changed, UNIFIL’s Mandate Makes It a Boon for Hezbollah

Last month, the United Nations Security Council passed R...

August 15, 2017 | Tony Badran |

The Pentagon Fills Hezbollah’s Shopping List

In recent years, federal law enforcement agencies have repeatedly arrested Hezbollah operatives in the US who were trying to procure weapons and other combat-related equi...

August 3, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Lebanese PM Saad Hariri Joins With Hezbollah to Con Donald Trump

The day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met&nbsp...

July 26, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Lebanon Is Another Name for Hezbollah

During his joint press conference with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday,...

April 24, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Hezbollah’s Farcical Media Tour at the Israel-Lebanon Border

Last Thursday, Hezbollah organized a tour for journalists along the border with Israel, where the Iranian proxy highlighted the various topographical alterations the IDF...

November 2, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows

Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomes two new scholars to its ranks. Lee Smith, of the Weekly Standard, and...

November 2, 2011 |

FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows

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