As dissent against Iran's Islamic Republic grows, nostalgia for the country's pre-Islamic past legacy is rising. From Sarah Katz at Middle East Quarterly.
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Russia's attempts to draw Lebanon into its sphere of influence by placing it under Moscow's air defense umbrella and selling weapons to Beirut have been discussed by American experts for years. Some analysts argue that...
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On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke clearly and forcefully of the threat posed by radical Islam. During a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, in August 2016, the presidential candidate said that defeating...
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Since 2014, the U.S. government, under both Obama and Trump, has given two branches of Islamic Relief, a global Islamist charity tied closely to the Muslim Brotherhood, over $2 million of taxpayers' money. Most recently, in...
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When Indians think about the Islamists and jihadists that threaten their lives, several groups may come to mind: Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jamaat-e-Islami, among others. It is unlikely, then...
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On September 30, 2017, a Somali immigrant who initially had himself smuggled over the Mexico-California border conducted a double vehicle ramming and stabbing attack, carrying an ISIS flag, that left a police officer and four...
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Turkey remains a haven for terror financing schemes. From Burak Bekdil.
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A host of forces, from Turkish and Iranian proxies to Russian troops and Syrian government forces, are jockeying for control of the lands that once were held by the Islamic State.
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Event: Is Turkey Coming Back? Updating U.S. Policy
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Once an ally of the United States, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey has increasingly positioned itself as an enemy of the West in nearly every way that it’s possible to do so, such as nuclear weapons aspirations, support for local Islamists in the U.S. and Europe, aggression in Syria, flooding Europe with migrants, and tyrannical oppression of its own citizens.
Watch the live broadcast of the Middle East Forum’s December 9 conference on Turkey in Washington, DC, at
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by Seth Frantzman (Dec 3, 2019)
by Gregg Roman (Nov 14, 2019)
by Daniel Pipes (Nov 13, 2019)
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by Seth Frantzman (Sep 29, 2019)
by Jonathan Spyer (Sep 19, 2019)
by Burak Bekdil (Sep 18, 2019)
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