The Hezbollah Threat
From the Marine Barracks Bombing to Today
The U.S. Marine Corps
Flying Above the Radar
Sanctions Evasion in the Iranian Aviation Sector
Monographs
The Enemy in our Backyard: Examining Terror Funding Streams from South America
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Legislative Testimonies
Iran Still Owes $53 Billion in Unpaid U.S. Court Judgments to American Victims of Iranian Terrorism
FDD Research Memo
Memos
Victims of Terror Can Seize Iranian Money, Supreme Court Rules
Victims of terrorist attacks that were backed by Iran, and members of their families, can collect nearly $2 billion in Iranian money held by a bank in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wedne...
Op-eds
Justice for Alberto Nisman and the AMIA Jewish center victims inches closer
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of...
Op-eds
The Early Returns on Obama’s Iran Deal
Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened a hearing last week with these candid, if not immortal, words: “I think the agreement is off to a really terrible...
Op-eds
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Op-eds
The Perils of Joining Turkey in the Fight against ISIS
Turkey’s cabinet last week announ...
Op-eds
Transformational Diplomacy
Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...
Op-eds
“Terrorism in Africa: The Imminent Threat to the United States”
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Legislative Testimonies
Former U.S. Marine Killed by Islamic State’s Tripoli ‘Province’
Two gunmen entered the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli Tuesday morning. When their shooting rampage was over, ...
Op-eds
US policy hostage to the hostage-takers
Iran's troubling official statements and actions should serve as a warning to Obama
Op-eds
Argentine Prosecutor Found Dead, Fought Iran-Backed Terror Around World
Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (the AMIA building) in Argentina, has been ...
Op-eds
FDD Announces New Class of Policy Professionals for National Security Fellows Program
WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced its class of 2015 National Security Fellows. This group of 30 men and women are all up-and-coming policy professionals with...
Press Releases
Treating Our Friends Like Enemies
The Obama administration’s foreign policy provides a kind of porcelain alliance for America’s allies across the world. Three telling cases in point over the last week brought things t...
Op-eds
Sandstorm
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
Op-eds
Iran Rising
In his...
Op-eds
Misunderstanding al Qaeda
On Tuesday, September 23, the U.S. government announced that a new bombing campaign was under way in Syria. The Obama administration had been building the case for airstrikes for weeks. The presi...
Op-eds
No Time to Forget Iran’s Terrorism
To confront America’s enemies, the Obama administration needs to relentlessly confront al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the most potent sponsor of state-sponsored...