Istanbul Attack Must Prompt Tougher Turkish IS Policy
Three suicide bombers attacked the Istanbul Ataturk international airport Tuesday night, killing 43 people, including...
Tuesday
Despite Stillborn Deal, Saudi-Russian Petrodiplomacy Could Reshape The Future Of Oil
The Saudi-Iran grudge match still hangs over the oil patch. Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two largest oil exporters, finally reached an ...
Op-eds
How Terrorism Came Back to Turkey
A suicide bomber identified as an Islamic State (IS) militant ...
Op-eds
Analysis: Istanbul Attack Reveals Erdogan’s Crumbling Sense of Stability
A terrorist bombing on Tuesday in the heart of Istanbul’s major tourism district that killed 10 people and left 15 injured showed the fragility of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&rsq...
Op-eds
Obama’s Talk and Putin’s Blitz: A Russian Middle East Coup in Three Acts
In New York, the United Nations is still lumbering through its Sept. 28th – Oct. 3 general debate. But even with today’s declaration by aging potentate Mahmoud Abbas that the Palestin...
Op-eds
It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not enter into Tuesday’s historic deal with six world powers to reset relations with the West. It was the promise of more than $100...
Op-eds
Nuclear Extortion: Pioneered by North Korea, Perfected by Iran
With implications reaching far beyond the Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal opens the gates not to a safer world, but to proliferation on a scale likely to defy any peaceful efforts at containme...
Op-eds
Iran’s Succession Battle: Does it Matter?
Mohammad Yazdi, a hardline ayatollah and former Judiciary chief, was elected chairman of Iran’s Assembly of...
Policy Briefs
UNSC Resolution on IS Finance: A Message to Turkey?
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution Thursday aimed at targeting funding for the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qa...
Policy Briefs
Sooner or later, Hezbollah Will Push Lebanon Over the Edge
On Tuesday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for planting explosive devices that injured two Israeli soldiers on patrol in the Shebaa Farms area. The incident followed an attempted infiltration i...
Op-eds
Frustration with Qatar Adds to GCC Security Dispute
In a striking new development, the governments of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday said they were withdrawing their ambassadors from Qatar. In a joint statement, th...
Op-eds
Who Took Out Hezbollah’s Hassan al-Laqqis?
Minutes after Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah finished a lengthy televised appearance late Tuesday night, a team of unknown assailants assassinated Hassan al-Laqqis, one of the...
Policy Briefs
Why Iran Already Has the Bomb
If North Korea has the bomb—as this week’s nuclear test indicated—then for all practical purposes, so does Iran.
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Weighs In on the Post-Election Landscape
While Americans have been debating the meaning of Tuesday’s election, al Qaeda’s Ayman al Zawahiri has been weighing in with his own views on this landscape, including the burned and...
Op-eds
About Those Blacklisted Iranian Ships Calling at Libyan Ports…
The U.S. is looking for ways to beef up security in Libya, following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Two warships an...
Op-eds
A Real Syria Policy, Anyone?
Russia and China’s October 4 veto of a U.N. -Security Council resolution on Syria elicited a strong response from U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. “The United States is outrage...
Op-eds
Susan Rice’s Absence Did Not Go Unnoticed
On Tuesday, the United States reaffirmed its opposition to Palestinian plans to sidestep negotiations with Israel and declare a state this fall at the United Nations. But Ambassador Susan Rice, W...
Op-eds
When the Clock Strikes Midnight, We Will Be Significantly Less Safe
The Democrats' FISA talking points are nonsense.
Op-eds
Transnational Absurdity
When Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban, he probably never imagined that he would be captured and his detention would be turned into a leg...
Op-eds
Disconnecting the Dots
On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stinging rebuke to a district court that granted a Guantanamo detainee’s habeas petition last year. The detainee in question is...