Cognitive Combat
China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans
Tablet
FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review
Memos
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
Op-eds
Lebanon’s Interwoven Fantasy Worlds All Lead to War With Israel
How much should America pay to maintain the fraying fabric?
Op-eds
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.
Op-eds
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
Op-eds
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.
Op-eds
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.
Op-eds
The Curtain is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly-Dance
What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?
Op-eds
Standing With Saudi Arabia
How President Donald Trump has been forthright about the actual drivers of American policy in the Middle East
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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 ...
Op-eds
Unless It Is Changed, UNIFIL’s Mandate Makes It a Boon for Hezbollah
Last month, the United Nations Security Council passed R...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Lebanese PM Saad Hariri Joins With Hezbollah to Con Donald Trump
The day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met ...
Op-eds
Lebanon Is Another Name for Hezbollah
During his joint press conference with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday,...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Press Releases
FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows
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