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October 28, 2022 | Joe Truzman |

Analysis: The Lions’ Den and the Future of Militant Activity in the West Bank

In a joint Israeli security forces’ operation, a founder of the The Lions’ Den (TLD) was killed in the old city of Nablus on Oct. 25. The Lions’ Den commander, Wadee al-Houh was wanted for several...

September 25, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Dylan Gresik

Hezbollah’s History with Ammonium Nitrate: The Danger to Europe

Ambassador Nathan Sales, U.S. coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State, announced last week that Hezbollah has transported and stored ammonium nitrate throughout Europe. While the disclosure...

May 10, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia |

Full Comment: Iran lied to get a deal that we can’t enforce anyway

Israel has just pulled off a spectacular covert mission to extract from a warehouse in southern Tehran 55,000 pages and 183 CDs of secret Iranian files detailing that country’s nuclear prog...

October 15, 2015 | Aykan Erdemir |

After Ankara, Cover-Ups and Conspiracies

Twin bombs rocked the Turkish capital Ankara on October 10, killing close to 100 civilians and injuring over...

October 5, 2015 | |

Bahrain and Iran Expel Each Other’s Diplomats

Bahrain announced the withdrawal of its ambassador from Iran on Thursday and ordere...

February 11, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross FDD Policy Brief

Tunisia’s Heavy-Handed Counter-Terror Operations

Co-authored by Bridget Moreng Tunisian security forces Saturday night gunned down a suspect in the assassination of one of the country’s leading secularist politicians. It was the secon...

April 17, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal The Atlantic |

In Europe, a Growing Case for Banning Hezbollah

There's new evidence that the group's jihadist and political branches are intertwined.

April 3, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal National Review Online |

What More Will It Take for the EU to Ban Hezbollah?

Last July, the then–foreign minister of Cyprus, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country held the European Union’s rotating presidency,...

September 14, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

US Adds 2 Senior Hezbollah Military Leaders to Terror List

Yesterday the US Treasury Department added both Hezbollah's military leader and the chief of its External Security Organization to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists....

January 30, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

Jamshid Muhtorov, the Islamic Jihad Union, and Joshua Foust

As regular Gunpowder & Lead readers will know, one of my preferred genres of writing is known informally as the “evisceration.” My...

November 18, 2010 |

Justice Was Not Done

Critics of the Obama administration’s use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday’s stunning verdict i...

November 17, 2010 |

Ghailani Verdict A Miscarriage of Justice

A New York jury delivered a stunning verdict Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani, an al Qaeda terrorist who conspired to blow up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted of more than...

October 6, 2010 |

Embassy-Bombing Trial in Jeopardy

Ahmed Ghailani has confessed to bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania twelve years ago. As he explained to the FBI in a series of 2007 interviews, he bought the TNT used in the explosion. He even...

October 6, 2010 |

Judge Excludes Damning Testimony Against Al Qaeda Terrorist, Ahmed Ghailani

A judge's reason for excluding damning testimony against al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani makes no sense. The government’s case against Ahmed Ghailani, the terrorist who part...

November 18, 2009 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross CTR Vantage

The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah

The shootout occurred during an FBI raid designed to disrupt a variety of illegal activities being carried out by Abdullah and at least ten of his associates—activities that were uncovered...

June 22, 2008 | Long War Journal

One hundred insurgents detained in Baghdad during past week

  BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi and Coalition forces in and around Baghdad captured more than 100 insurgents and defused 147 improved explosive devices during the past week as part of contin...

June 19, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Iraqi security forces detain senior Sadrist during Maysan operation

 The Iraqi security forces today formally kicked off the operations against the Mahdi Army in the southern province of Maysan. On the day the government's amnesty offer expired, the Ira...

December 26, 2006 | |

Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper

Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...

December 4, 2004 | Orde Kittrie Arizona Republic |

Iran and the Bomb

A Nuclear Iran Poses Extreme Threat to U.S.