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November 6, 2025 | |

New Satellite Evidence Shows Mass Graves Following Paramilitary Massacre in Sudanese City

Graves Located Near 2 Hospitals: New satellite images from North Darfur suggest an ongoing massacre in the city of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary organization....

October 30, 2025 | Mariam Wahba, Samuel Ben-Ur

RSF seizes El Fasher, forcing Sudanese Armed Forces withdrawal

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has captured El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur State, forcing a complete withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). On October 26, RSF personnel stormed the...

October 28, 2025 |

Reports of Atrocities as RSF Paramilitary Forces Gain Control of Last Government Stronghold in Darfur

RSF Now Controls Entirety of Darfur: The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has finally seized control of el-Fasher in the Northern Darfur region following a...

May 14, 2024 | Antonette Bowman |

Some Campus Protesters Despise America as Much as They Do Israel

The epicenter of campus protests has recently shifted from occupation of buildings and quads, to the disruption of commencement ceremonies as students prepare to leave campus. This provides an opportunity...

April 25, 2024 | David May, Antonette Bowman

How Universities Can Take Back the Quad

They have student codes of conduct, they just need to enforce them.

February 9, 2024 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Maryam Aslany

Why India will face political and trade hurdles as long as Iran’s Islamic regime remains in power

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December 15, 2023 | Orde Kittrie |

U.S. Lawfare Options for Helping Bring Hamas to its Knees

Pressuring Qatar and Turkey to Quickly Detain Hamas Leaders

August 14, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Ted Shepherd

The Corruption War: Russia Is Losing The War For The Same Reason It Started It

On Feb. 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin cited corruption as a motivator for his decision to invade Ukraine.  While complaining about Ukrainian corruption in his televised speech on...

September 15, 2022 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The Weaponization of Capital

Strategic Implications of China’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Playbook

July 28, 2022 | Ivana Stradner, Iulia Sabina-Joja

Russia Created a Refugee Crisis, and Now Putin Is Weaponizing It

With Russia causing two migration crises—one by bloodshed in the east and the other by famine in the south—the United States must act now.

March 28, 2022 | Michael Rubin, Jonathan Schanzer

Biden risking new wars with Iran ‘diplomacy’ — and our Middle East allies know it

Excerpt “It’s time to end this forever war” — those were President Biden’s words as he issued the order for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. America’s chaotic withdrawal certainly...

October 12, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Gaslighting Nations—Erdogan Makes a Mockery of U.N. General Assembly—Again

The term “United Nations,” which U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined in 1942, reflected a commitment, articulated in the Declaration of United Nations, to “defend life, liberty,...

May 27, 2021 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Defusing Military-Civil Fusion

The Need to Identify and Respond to Chinese Military Companies

January 22, 2019 |

FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power

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

November 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Came the revolution

My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...

May 8, 2017 | Michael Ledeen

War on Campus

Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...

May 13, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Done Deal?

All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...

June 10, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Rhyme and Reason of Jihad

You probably didn’t know it but Osama bin Laden was a poet. In fact, according to Yale’s Robyn Creswell and Princeton’s Bernard Haykel, “of all jihadi poets, bin Laden was...

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 1, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

UN Report Assails Iran for Persecution of Religious Minorities

Despite the election last year of Iran’s reform-minded president Hassan Rouhani, there has been no Persian thaw for Iran’s struggling religious minorities. Wide-scale repression of re...