Qatar, a Persian Gulf emirate roughly the size of Connecticut, possesses outsized wealth by sitting atop the world’s largest natural gas reservoir. FDD has meticulously documented that this tiny country...
Opponents of U.S. sanctions often cite Cuba as “Exhibit A” for why sanctions don’t work. The United States has maintained an embargo on the island for more than six decades — but to what end? Cuba’s...
If you ask Google what Al Jazeera is, the answer you receive draws heavily on Wikipedia. The same is true if you ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or many other large language models. Wikipedia has become the working...
Reversing a lower court’s decision, a federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated U.S. sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN envoy who, according to the State Department, “has spewed unabashed...
The sanctions imposed by the United States against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for “human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967,” are the focus of a legal...
In the 1950s, the United States invented the shipping container, revolutionizing global trade. Today, China makes almost all of them — and just got caught fixing the price. On May 19, the U.S. Department...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said that recent drone attacks against their countries originated from Iraq. “The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that six drones had been launched...
A recent investigation into the social media account “Clash Report” illustrates the need for greater alertness among policymakers in Washington and across Europe. While the account appears to...
Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy
After a long search, the law finally caught up to the laptop. On April 27, the Department of Justice released an indictment of Xu Zewei, a Chinese national accused of participating in state-sponsored...
China’s effort to steal American artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to turn foes into friends. Three American AI firms locked in an intense competition for market share — OpenAI, Anthropic,...
U.S. law enforcement confirmed on March 27 that Iranian hackers operating under the name Handala compromised the FBI director’s personal email. The group claims to be an independent, pro-Palestinian...
Tens of billions of dollars have been siphoned out of the Iranian economy by the Islamic Republic’s insiders over the past decade. If the U.S. wasn’t watching then, it is now. “We...
The agency responsible for defending against Iranian cyberattacks is running at less than half strength, so perhaps cyber strikes against two U.S. healthcare companies in two weeks should not be surprising....
China is still behind the United States in the AI race, but it is willing to pay a lot to catch up fast. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment on March 19 against Yih-Shyan Liaw, Ruei-Tsang...