The Gambia

November 5, 2025 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s October Oil Exports Hit 2025 Peak, Reflecting Failure of U.S. Sanctions Enforcement

Iran’s oil exports in October reached their highest monthly level of the year. This highlights the continued failure of the Trump administration to cut Tehran’s key financial lifeline. Tehran shipped...

October 23, 2025 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s September Oil Exports Reach a 2025 High, Underscoring Sanctions Enforcement Gaps

Iran’s oil exports in September 2025 reached their highest monthly level of the year, according to TankerTrackers, highlighting the continued shortcomings of international sanctions enforcement. Tehran...

September 16, 2025 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

With Snapback of UN Sanctions Pending, Tehran Continues To Export Oil

Tehran continues to export oil and acquire new customers despite approaching deadlines for the snapback of United Nations sanctions. Although Iranian oil exports reached their lowest level of the year...

May 24, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Can the Middle East halt the rise of Iran before it’s too late?

Iran has recently reconciled with Saudi Arabia, with China’s backing, and it has been seeking to open a new page of ties with Egypt.

May 16, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Arab leaders meet in Bahrain for summit regarding Gaza and regional development

Arab League summit convenes in Bahrain to address the Gaza conflict and regional integration. Concerns arise over Israel's isolation amid shifting alliances and diplomatic challenges.

May 6, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Muslim countries meeting in Gambia condemn Israel ‘genocide’

Iran tried to use OIC meeting against Israel and wording in the final declaration may reflect Iran’s success.

February 27, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Josh Birenbaum

Tightening the Belt or End of the Road? China’s BRI at 10

January 12, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Beware Hezbollah’s Dual-Nationals

Without stigmatizing diaspora communities or profiling their members, Western intelligence services must work against radicalization and incitement by targeting Hezbollah agents.

May 10, 2023 | Andrea Stricker |

Two Years On, Syria’s Suspension from the OPCW Was Beneficial

Member States’ Next Act Should be Suspending Russia

May 6, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah Is Missing from President Biden’s Corruption Agenda

Making global corruption a national security priority is the right decision. Recognizing Hezbollah’s systematic reliance on corruption to facilitate its illicit finance networks would make the White House strategy more effective.

September 23, 2020 | Tony Badran, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Hezbollah Finance in Lebanon

A Primary-Source Review

August 4, 2020 | James Rickards |

Crisis in Lebanon

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

June 17, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Defending America’s defenders

Beginning to stand up to a hostile international organization

March 25, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Globalists gone wild

A transnational prosecutor puts American soldiers in her crosshairs

July 8, 2019 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Why the United States should sanction the mastermind of China’s crackdown on the Uighurs

January 31, 2019 | Juan C. Zarate |

Midterm Assessment: Economic Security

September 25, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Americans’ right to self-rule

In a stern and defiant speech earlier this month, National Security Adviser John Bolton made clear that the United States will not...

June 13, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Ronald Reagan’s freedom agenda

Ronald Reagan was tough on totalitarians. On March 8, 1983 -- and to the chagrin of many of his advisors – he disparaged the Soviet Union as an...

October 4, 2017 | Clifford D. May

American values are not the cause of racism

More than 35 years ago, I went to Africa for the first time, the junior member of a group of American writers. We were visiting The Gambia and, at a stop in the interior, I purchased a small wood...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

Criminal Networks in West Africa: An Emerging Security Challenge

On April 30, Sidi Ould Sidna, a.k.a. Abou Jendel, an al-Qaeda-linked militant who was escaped earlier in the month from the courthouse in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where he was being tried for the...