The Gambia

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.

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 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.

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

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

São Tomé and Príncipe: An African Exception?

That the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe might somehow escape the various "traps" – ethnic conflict, the "resource curse," poor governance, etc. – en...

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...

January 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

Côte d’Ivoire Crisis: Some Lessons to Be Learned

In my review last week of Africa's likely top flash points for 2011, I expressed my concern that The year that was supposed to be Côte d'Ivoire's "ann...

December 22, 2010 | Emanuele Ottolenghi The Jewish Chronicle |

Dictators: How to Prop Up Your Regime

Last week, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, abruptly fired his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki. Even by his low standards of etiquette, the event was unprecedented, leaving aghast...

December 2, 2010 | World Defense Review |

Behind Iran’s Foiled Gambian Gambit

His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh, President of the Republic of The Gambia, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chief Custodian of the Sacre...

June 11, 2010 | Forbes |

Iran’s Arc Of Injustice

When huge protests broke out in Iran over last year's rigged reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S. President Barack Obama had some cool, calm answers. The brutality of Iran'...

February 24, 2010 |

Iran’s Global Bedfellows

If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Amer...

February 18, 2010 | World Defense Review |

Shi’a in Senegal: Iran’s Growing Reach into Africa

As the Iranian regime celebrated its 31st birthday last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ordered and then boasted that the nuclear plant at Natanz had successfully enriched uranium to 19...

December 17, 2009 | |

Iran’s Global Bedfellows

If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Am...

November 18, 2009 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard Blog

Al Qaeda’s Civil Liberties Union

A look at the other terrorists embraced by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's ACLU lawyers.