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.

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....

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...

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...

February 20, 2012 | Tony Badran |

Standing Up to Assad

Washington persists in the belief that Russia can be swayed to withdraw its support for the Assad regime in Syria, thereby falling in line with US policy. The White House has called for Assad to...

January 23, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

World War

Speaking at the Pentagon on January 5th, President Obama proclaimed: “Even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of war is receding.” He could not be more...

November 1, 2011 | Claudia Rosett Forbes |

UNESCO Fiasco

If the U.S. has one big lever right now within the many organizations of the United Nations system, it is the threat to cut the money with which U.S. taxpayers pay the biggest share of the U.N.&r...

October 27, 2011 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Not Total Recall

The Obama administration is having a hard time explaining why the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, has returned to Washington. Despite the apparent threat against Ford’s life, the admin...

October 11, 2011 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Obama Abandoning Interest in Syria

With the Syrian revolution on the verge of...