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August 27, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Will Qatar let Israelis, Egyptians and LGBTQ people attend 2022 World Cup?

A damning new report obtained by Fox News exposes discrimination by Qatar’s Islamist regime targeting Israelis, Egyptians and LGBTQ people ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in the Gulf monarchy. The...

June 26, 2019 | Mark Dubowitz, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Behnam Ben Taleblu

What “Yes” With Iran Looks Like

May 9, 2019 | Jonathan Schanzer, Nicole Salter

Oman in the Middle

Muscat’s Balancing Act Between Iran and America

November 6, 2018 | Annie Fixler, Frank Cilluffo

Evolving Menace

Iran’s Use of Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

October 29, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Rose Parris Richter, Prof. Irwin Cotler

Profiles of Iranian Repression

Architects of Human Rights Abuse in the Islamic Republic

October 11, 2018 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

Seeking Sanctions Resistance Through Blockchain Technology

Policy experts can argue about the appropriateness of various sanctions policies. Some voice concerns that the U.S. ...

October 3, 2018 | Mathew Ha, David Maxwell

Kim Jong Un’s ‘All-Purpose Sword’

North Korean Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

October 1, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Badness personified

Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.

October 1, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Badness Personified

Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.

August 1, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

In Turkey and Pakistan, discouraging elections

Not so long ago, freedom and democracy seemed to be on the march in the world, with Turkey and Pakistan, two strategically important Muslim-majority nations, near the front of the parade. That tu...

July 11, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

The Islamic Republic’s demands

Britain, France and Germany are three of America’s closest allies but they don’t always act like it. Last week in Vienna, their foreign ministers met with the foreign ministers of Chi...

June 13, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Ronald Reagan’s freedom agenda

Ronald Reagan was tough on totalitarians. On March 8, 1983 -- and to the chagrin of many of his advisors – he disparaged the Soviet Union as an...

April 16, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?

On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...

March 27, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The problem with promoting democracy

In a better world, I’d be enthusiastically in favor of democracy promotion and even nation-building -- more correctly called state-building. But we don’t live in a better world....

August 14, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Statue not an immigrant beacon

In “Not everyone can join the American nation” (Web, Aug. 8) Clifford May argues that CNN’s Jim Acosta was wrong to say that Emma Lazarus’ poem, “The New Col...

July 18, 2017 |

Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers

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June 30, 2017 | |

Trump and Moon must unite to send a tough message to North Korea

Co-written by Joshua Stanton. South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae In, ...

June 14, 2017 | Clifford D. May

The Qatar Ultimatum

In the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush drew a line in the sand. “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make,” he annou...

May 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Trump, Germany’s Merkel clash over trade, NATO and ‘Western values’

Germany and the U.S. emerged from Memorial Day weekend in a war of words, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners attacked America’s reliability as a world power and Presiden...

May 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Deso Dogg, the rapper who cheated death, humiliated the Pentagon and seduced an FBI translator

A B-list German rapper who found stardom when he joined ISIS, cheated death and embarrassed the Pentagon topped himself when he got the girl – an FBI translator who set out to catch him and...