Victoria Nuland

September 26, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Tyler Stapleton, Endy Zemenides

Turkey should prove it is ready to embrace NATO

Turkey was thrown out of the F-35 combat aircraft program because of its actions which embraced Russia and were antithetical to NATO. The US drew a clear line in the sand by removing Turkey and cancelling...

September 24, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

Why Is The U.S. So Keen To Get Turkey Back Into The F-35 Program?

Ankara has and is taking visible steps to decouple itself from upholding the values and security priorities of the NATO alliance.

May 13, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi |

Why President Erdogan’s DC Visit Was Canceled

It is time to stop treating Turkey as an indispensable nation deserving endless accommodation for its rogue foreign policy.

February 17, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey is a sanctuary for terrorism financing

Since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel, much of the international focus on Turkey has centered on its patronage of Hamas. Along with Qatar and Iran, Turkey provides the terrorist...

September 7, 2022 | Tony Badran |

America’s Regional Integration Scheme Benefits Iran

The Obama-Biden doctrine means that our Mideast allies don’t have to like the Iran deal. They just have to pay for it.

July 26, 2022 | David Kilcullen |

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

May 12, 2022 | David Adesnik |

The White House Is Bending the Law on Syria Sanctions

February 9, 2022 | Tony Badran |

Biden Pays Army Salaries to Iranian Ally

An unprecedented new salary assistance program for the Lebanese military is ‘cleverly’ structured to evade U.S. law

December 7, 2021 | Tony Badran |

Washington Underwrites the Hezbollah State

In October, a few weeks after Lebanon’s politicians had formed a new government, the Biden administration sent Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to Lebanon to showcase U.S....

November 2, 2021 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

September 17, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Treasury Sanctions Jihadist Financiers in Turkey for the Seventh Time Since 2019

The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated five Turkey-based individuals on Thursday for providing a range of financial and travel facilitation services to al-Qaeda. The new designations — the seventh...

July 28, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late July

July 14, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early July

December 3, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer, Benjamin Weinthal

How Israel Lost Europe

How Benjamin Netanyahu lost friends and Mahmoud Abbas influenced people.

November 15, 2012 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Sitting Out the Syria Game

In the run-up to the US presidential election, Washington’s regional allies were...

July 30, 2012 |

Some Questionable State Department Actions

Prepared by staff at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies 1) Global Counterterrorism Conference Without Israel The Global Counterterrorism Forum w...

July 2, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Obama Administration’s Breathtaking Arrogance on Questions about Inviting a Terrorist to Washington

One should always hesitate before jumping to the conclusion that the something that just happened is the worst thing that has ever happened — history usually has many worse “worsts&rd...

June 25, 2012 | Khairi Abaza

Islamist’s Win in Egypt Leaves US Uncertain

Egyptians celebrated Sunday the election of their country's first freely elected president - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who becomes the first Islamist head of state of the Ara...

June 19, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz |

Iran Talks Fail, Of Course

The Times of Israel reports: “Iran became more adamant Monday that the world must remove the sancti...

May 24, 2012 | Tony Badran |

The Failure to Admit Failure

A recent...