Analysis & Commentary
Iran’s Extending Influence in East Africa
The Sudan Tribune reported last week that Iranian forces were preparing to train Sudan’s navy. The move was not exactly surprising. In the last few months alone...
UN for Combating Terror Finance to Convene in Sudan, a State Sponsor of Terror
On Sunday, the leading experts on terrorism finance in the Middle East and North Africa will convene for a five-day conference. The Financial Action Task Force is essentially the United Nations...
Al Qaeda-Linked Groups Increasing Contact with Salafi Groups in Nile Delta and Sinai
Egyptian officials are worried that they are seizing only a fraction of the weaponry entering the Sinai Peninsula from Libya. And in contrast to earlier arms shipments, which were destined for the Gaza Strip,...
Veteran Sudanese Jihadist Killed in French Airstrike in Mali
A senior al Qaeda commander who waged jihad for more than 20 years in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Chechnya, and the Sudan was killed in a French airstrike in Mali. A Sudanese jihadist announced the death...
US Adds 2 Sudanese al Qaeda Operatives to List of Terrorists
The US government has added two al Qaeda-linked operatives who murdered a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum in 2008 to the list of global terrorists. Additionally, the US Department of State's...
Smugglers Galore
An explosion in southern Lebanon last week destroyed what is believed to have been a Hezbollah weapons depot. This latest in a series of mysterious “accidents” in Hezbollah-controlled precincts proved...
Why US-Israel Ties Just Got Warmer
The latest round in an endless cycle of violence between Israel and Gaza has culminated in a surprising win for the US- Israel relationship: an apparent renewal of vows between President Obama...
A Sudan Surprise
Sudan has played a key role in arming Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets, experts said. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) principal objective in Gaza is to rid Palestinian terrorists...
Happening Now
FDD's Jonathan Schanzer discusses the causes for the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Are Gaza Strikes a Dress Rehearsal for Potential Israeli Assault on Iran?
Israel may be targeting more than Hamas as it escalates its bombing campaign in Gaza and tries to eliminate the threat of increasingly lethal stockpiled rockets. Israel's real target may be Iran.
A Pillar of Problems
Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense, after six days of air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, could be entering into a new phase of a larger ground invasion. While the war has been dissected six ways to...
Did Israel and the US Just Cooperate on a Dry-Run for an Iran Intervention?
Within hours of a bombing raid on a weapons factory in Sudan last month, the international media was pointing fingers at Israel. Some reports suggested that the strike looked like a dry run for an attack on...
Sudan Blames Israel For Arms Depot Attack
The Sudanese government has accused Israel of blowing up an arms factory overnight in the capital city of Khartoum. According to Reuters, the facility was attacked by four military planes...
A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis
The popular reception of Argo, the new Ben Affleck movie about the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover in Iran, is perhaps evidence that the 444-day hostage-taking still occupies a dark...
Hizballah in Africa
Sudan, ruled by Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has become a safe haven for some wanted Middle Eastern terrorists, allowing some of them to rejoin the struggle by gong from Khartoum first to Iran...
The Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council
The good news is that genocide-tainted Sudan has withdrawn its bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a move that suggests there may actually be some outer limits to the travesties...
The Charles Adler Show
Sudan on the UN Human Rights Council and a Lebanese MP calling for destruction of Israel.
Bin Laden Loyalist Transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan
The Defense Department announced on Wednesday that Ibrahim al Qosi, a Guantanamo detainee who long served deceased al Qaeda master Osama bin Laden, was transferred to his home country of Sudan.
Pariah State: Examining Sudan’s Support for Terrorism
Sudan remains on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism despite its peace agreement with South Sudan and its counter-terrorism co-operation against the Al-Qaeda network.
Yes We Still Can
In 1999, as America prepared to enter the new century, French leaders decried its rising status as a "hyperpower". A hyperpower, explained then French foreign minister Hubert Védrine, is one that is so dominant in all spheres, that there is no counterbalance.
