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Persian Cultural Nostalgia as Political Dissent

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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Why Russia Wants Lebanon

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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American Islamism Flourishes under Trump

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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New Brand of American Islamists Wins Big in 2019 Elections

America's leading Islamist groups may have just lost an elected cheerleader with the arrest of Pennsylvania state Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell, but plenty more were elected on November 5th to take her place...

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Trump Administration Continues to Enable and Fund Troubled Islamic Organization

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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India's Islamist Nemesis in America

There are many Islamist organizations responsible for violence and terror in South Asia . Those who follow the turmoil of Kashmir closely may be aware of groups such as Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed or Lashkar-e-Taiba...

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Like in Europe, America's Broken Asylum System Enables Islamist Infiltration

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: Jihadist Highway Revisited

Turkey remains a haven for terror financing schemes. From Burak Bekdil.

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Event: Is Turkey Coming Back? Updating U.S. Policy

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 12:10 PM EST on YouTube or Facebook.

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Turkey Is Trying to Take over the Mediterranean, through Libya
by Seth Frantzman (Dec 3, 2019)
President Trump's Embrace of Erdogan Should End
by Gregg Roman (Nov 14, 2019)
Erdoğan's Turkish Delight: The Dangerous Reign of Ankara's Corrupt President
by Daniel Pipes (Nov 13, 2019)
How Could the Turks Not Know Where Baghdadi Was Hiding?
by Seth Frantzman (Nov 3, 2019)
Turkey's $27 Billion Plan to Resettle Northeast Syria
by Seth Frantzman (Sep 29, 2019)
Islamist Archipelago: The Turkey-Qatar Nexus
by Jonathan Spyer (Sep 19, 2019)
Next for Turkey? Nuclear Weapons!
by Burak Bekdil (Sep 18, 2019)

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