Analysis & Commentary
Ethiopian Muslims Under Siege
Ethiopian Muslims participated today in a massive nationwide demonstration against measures taken by the government in Addis Ababa to limit religious freedom.
MUJAO Suicide Bombers Hit Uranium Mine, Barracks in Niger
A pair of suicide bombers from the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Oneness or Unity] and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) killed 19 people, including 18 soldiers...
Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi
‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-policy...
Time for the EU to Outlaw All of Hezbollah
The European Union moved closer on Monday to sanctioning the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah when the United Kingdom announced that it filed a formal request...
Germany Backs Blacklisting Hezbollah Military Wing
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle decided Wednesday to support listing Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization in the European Union, according to German diplomatic sources.
Debate Aside, Number of Drone Strikes Drops Sharply
President Obama embraced drone strikes in his first term, and the targeted killing of suspected terrorists has come to define his presidency. But lost in the contentious debate over the legality...
US House Panel Backs Stiff New Iran Sanctions
Iran could face tightened sanctions within months after a US congressional panel Wednesday adopted a measure targeting the nation's auto and mining industries as well as its foreign...
New Ideas for Cooperatively Preventing WMD Attacks from the Middle East
The danger that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from the Middle East will be used against the United States or its allies has been heightened by several recent developments.
Bottom Line
FDD's Jonathan Schanzer discusses Congress latest efforts to sanction Iran.
Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from al Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria
Al Qaeda’s Iran-based network has not only facilitated the movement of terrorists to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but has also been implicated in plots...
Fox News.com Live
FDD's Tony Badran on a troubling trend where young girls are used for temporary marriages in Syrian refugee camps.
Cyber Threats and Security Solutions
This hearing is about cyber threats and solutions. But I am going to talk about a dimension of the cyber threat that is not usually considered a cyber threat in Western doctrine...
Catastrophic Consensus: A Dissent From Spengler and Mead
Spengler (aka David Goldman) is one of my close friends and a long-time guru. William Russell Mead is just a guru, but I’m an avid fan. So when I find myself disagreeing...
Saudi Arabia Blocks Access to Jpost.com
Saudi Arabia’s government appears to have denied access to the website of the Jerusalem Post since early May. The conservative British-based news and opinion website—The Commentator...
US Congressman Introduces Legislation That Would Ensure Israel Maintains Its Qualitative Military
Representative Doug Collins (R-GA), Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, has introduced legislation to further the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security.
Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross joins me to discuss Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia (AST). We talk about AST's background, operations, and the recent events surrounding the government crackdown...
Tunisia’s Salafist Tangle and the Long Road to Stability
In their most aggressive move yet, the Tunisian government blocked a Salafist rally from taking place in the holy city of Kairouan on Sunday, with the aid of 11,000 policemen and heavy security cordons.
US Drones Strike Again in Yemen, Kill 2 AQAP Fighters
The US launched its second drone strike in Yemen in four days, killing two members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in an area in the central part of the country.
Taliban Suicide Bomber Assassinates Senior Politician in Afghan North
The Taliban have claimed credit for a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan that killed the head of the provincial council in Baghlan province. The suicide bomber, who was dressed in a police uniform...
How North Korea Could Cripple the U.S.
Over the past three days, North Korea has launched six short-range guided missiles or projectiles in tests that landed in the Sea of Japan. The launches were of a piece with Pyongyang's...
