War on terror

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

December 15, 2020 | David Kilcullen |

Enhancing Special Operations for Sustained Counterterrorism Operations

December 15, 2020 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Retain American Power, Do Not Restrain It

The call for the United States to show “restraint” by withdrawing from foreign entanglements and keeping the focus at home is growing in foreign-policy circles – and not just in the Trump administration....

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

September 11, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Another unhappy 9/11 anniversary

We continue to fight erratically and without a coherent global strategy.

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....

August 26, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

The Road to Damascus Starts in Tehran

It’s Middle East Groundhog Day all over again.  The discussion of What To Do About Syria is a replay of What To Do About Saddam:  it’s all about the wrong war in the wrong p...

August 15, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

It’s Time to Threaten Egypt’s Aid

The Egyptian military’s slaughter of hundreds of protesters on Wednesday leaves the United States with a single clear, albeit difficult, course of action: Condition future aid to Egypt on a...

July 10, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Salafi Jihadism in the North African Regional Context

Chairmen Poe and Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Members Sherman and Deutch, distinguished members of the subcommittees, it is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the threat of jihadist terroris...

May 2, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Guantanamo’s Hunger Artists

Would shutting Gitmo satisfy them -- or whet their appetites?

April 1, 2013 | James Kirchick Commentary |

Gay—or Left?

On July 19, 2005, authorities in the Iranian city of Mashhad publicly lynched two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, for the alleged crime of raping a 13-year-old boy. Horrific pictures...