The terrorist A-Team
Fifteen years ago, deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage called Hezbollah the “A-Team of terrorists.” He...
Trans World Airlines Flight 847
A death in Damascus, a funeral in Beirut
Five years ago, during the hopefully named Arab Spring, Syrians staged peaceful protests against the ruling dynasty that had long oppressed them. President Bashar al Assad responded brutally: In...
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Dr. Zarif or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian bomb
Tehran’s largest cemetery,...
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Iran’s Nuclear Shadow
During the past decade, Western diplomats have been engaged in protracted negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear program. Though a deal remains elusive, Western policymak...
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‘World Powers Surrender to Iran’
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani last week tweeted a...
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A Terrorist by Any Other Name
It has now been a year since Hezbollah operatives blew up a tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, killing five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver, including a pregnant woman. And after an er...
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Analysis: Hezbollah’s Lethal Anti-Semitism
There are a great many reasons whirling around within European foreign ministries to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Compelling arguments include the Lebanese Shi’ite group&rsqu...
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Iran’s War
After a quarter century, too little learned.
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Negotiate with Iran?
The Iraq Study Group’s call for negotiations with Iran and Syria as “a way forward” has been widely derided. It is, abjectly, a return to September 10th thinking — to the...
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Freed Terrorist is One Too Many
By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Like millions of other Americans, I can't forget the brutal 1985 torture and murder of young U.S. naval officer Robert Dean Stethem. Appar...
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Tortured Logic
Twenty years ago, in what some regard as the start of the terrorist war against America, Hezbollah suicide-bombers attacked the US Embassy and the Marine barracks in Beirut, slaughtering more tha...