War on terror

December 19, 2024 | Peter Doran, Ivana Stradner

Trump must counter Vladimir Putin’s coming deception games — here’s how

Vladimir Putin’s regime is readying a new bag of diplomatic tricks for the second Trump administration, as the Kremlin angles to lure Trump’s incoming national-security team into helping...

October 1, 2024 | David Daoud |

Hezbollah c’est moi: The Party of God without Hassan Nasrallah

On September 27, the unimaginable happened. At approximately 5:22 p.m. local time, reports emerged of a massive Israeli strike on the predominantly Shia southern suburbs of Beirut, known colloquially as...

September 11, 2024 | Will Selber, Bill Roggio

After 9/11, We Went to War Against the Terrorists. The Terrorists Won.

We retreated. They survived. And we’re deluding ourselves otherwise.

September 11, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Twenty-three years into the long war

The threat matrix keeps expanding

November 21, 2023 | |

Israel SitRep: Nov. 21, 2023

Today’s Issue: Israeli Cabinet to Meet Tonight to Approve Hostage Deal | Israel Announces It Captured Two Gazans Inside the Country a Month after the October 7 Attacks | IDF Forces Encircle Jabalya,...

October 19, 2022 | J. Pedro Zúquete |

In War on Terror 2.0, the Watchword Is: ‘Be Careful for What You Wish’

The narrative coming from the administration decries the threat of violence from only the right.

September 1, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

The option that should have been taken in Afghanistan

One year after the Biden administration’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan, the results are undeniable. The country has become a haven for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The Taliban is as oppressive...

May 30, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Paper Trail of Terror

In autumn of 2017, my colleague Thomas Joscelyn was invited to visit the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a long time coming. He and our colleague Bill Roggio at FDD’s Long War Journal had for...

September 3, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Forging the American-Israeli Alliance of the Future

In the shadow of the ISIS-K attack that killed 13 American troops in Afghanistan, Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met President Joe Biden at the White House. The visit reaffirmed the close ties...

April 16, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Diplomatic Arson in the Middle East

The Biden administration’s torching of U.S.-Saudi relations

June 7, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Bringing the Middle East Back Home

The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas

February 2, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East

Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration

April 26, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Caliphate, interrupted

After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and attacks from Russian, Syri...

January 22, 2019 |

FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power

Names H.R. McMaster as Chairman and Bradley Bowman as Senior Director

April 23, 2018 | Alexandra N. Gutowski

The Senate’s Blind Spot on Terrorism in Yemen

On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed hard on top administration officials to justif...

August 16, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

In search of a grand U.S. strategy

Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China, the end of the Cold War, President Obama’s outreach to “the Muslim world,” the growth of the (largely American-funded) United Nat...

December 14, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer

Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean

After the attacks in Paris and California, the debate in America has again erupted over the appropriate lexicon for discussing terrorism. Here’s an extremely abridged, alphabetized list of...

December 2, 2015 | |

Britain’s Corbyn Is No Laughing Matter

"Few people outside Britain have ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn," the British journalist Nick Cohen ...

January 23, 2015 | FDD Press Release

FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance

WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced 18 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF)....

April 23, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

In Africa, a Real “War on Women”

Last week, more than a hundred Nigerian students, girls between 15 and 18 years of age, were kidnapped by the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists of Boko Haram. Most of the girls are still being held....