SecurityCommentary
Paris Terrorist Attacks Underscore the Expanding Threat Posed by ISIS
The terrorist attacks launched in Paris on Friday that killed at least 129 people have been claimed by and traced back to the Islamic State,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Obama’s Middle East Strategy Continues to Fail as Cuban and Iranian Troops Join Russian-Backed Offensive in Syria
Russia is not the only country that feels free to intervene in Syria on behalf of the Assad regime and attack U.S.-supported Syrian rebels. Cuba… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Another Foreign Policy Failure for Obama: Pentagon Training for Syrian Rebels Ends
After the grim announcement last month that only four or five Syrian rebels trained by U.S. military personnel remained inside Syria, the Obama administration has… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Putin’s Syrian Gambit Exposes Flaws in Obama’s Naive Foreign Policy
Russia’s aggressive military intervention in Syria poses major problems for the United States, its allies, and the future of Syria. It is likely to make… Read More
InternationalCommentary
To Get Acceptable Iran Deal, Obama Must Avoid Mistakes Made in Syrian Chemical Weapons Negotiations
The Obama administration puts a lot of stock into negotiating with hostile regimes. Consider its seemingly endless negotiations with Iran over that nation’s illicit nuclear… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Obama ISIS Strategy Under Fire
The Obama administration continues to have difficulty in gaining support for its failing strategy to defeat the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL)…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Obama, It’s Time to Stop Shifting the Blame and Develop an ISIS Strategy
In Washington, a gaffe is defined as a statement in which a politician inadvertently tells the truth. President Obama has been roasted this week for… Read More
SecurityCommentary
ISIS Execution Video Ignites Jordanian Backlash
The grisly propaganda video issued by the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), showing a captured Jordanian air… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Hezbollah Attacks Israel: Latest Chapter in a Long Shadow War Between Israel and Iran
The long shadow war between Israel and Iran erupted in a high-profile clash yesterday, as Iran’s surrogate Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military convoy, killing two… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Charlie Hebdo Attack Shows West What Rising Threat Islamist Terrorists Pose
Last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and a Jewish grocery store that killed 17 people have underscored the rising threats… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Latest Beheading Is a Reminder U.S. Needs to Do More to Destroy Islamic State
The latest propaganda video released by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) featured the beheading of Peter Kassig, an American humanitarian aid… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Why the US Can’t Trust Iran to Help Defeat ISIS
Suggestions have been floated that the U.S. should work with Iran to defeat the growing threat posed by the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Why Iraq’s Chemical Weapons Are a Lingering Threat
The New York Times published a lengthy article Wednesday about chemical weapons found in Iraq. When it comes to chemical weapons, the New York Times… Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
Turkey: Pressures U.S. to Crack Down in Syria—and Sits on the Sideline
As the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS or ISIL) tightened the noose around the predominantly Kurdish Syrian city of Kobane in recent weeks, Turkey… Read More
SecurityNews
Q&A: Meet Khorasan, the Terrorist Group That Might Be Scarier Than ISIS
As the Islamic State terrorist organization commands attention with its cold-blooded tactics of rape and murder, another group of violent extremists in Syria considers itself… Read More
SecurityCommentary
What ISIS Is Trying to Achieve With Its Slick Videos
The grisly propaganda videos released by Islamist terrorists of the executions of innocent American hostages are coldly calculated to intimidate the terrorist group’s enemies, inspire… Read More
SecurityNews
The Scary Amount of Oil Money ISIS Makes Every Day
President Obama, laying out his strategy last night to defeat the Islamist jihadists known as ISIS, stressed that “it will take time to eradicate a… Read More
SecurityNews
Q&A: What More Troops in Iraq Means for Defeating ISIS
Despite repeated U.S. airstrikes ordered by President Obama to blunt the advance of the Islamic State, the brutal terrorist group — also known as ISIS… Read More
SecurityNews
Q&A: Where It’s Not ‘Too Late’ for U.S. Aims in Iraq
With the rapid advance in Iraq of the deadly terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), political leaders and policy… Read More
SecurityNews
Q&A: How the Crisis in Iraq Puts Americans at Risk of Terrorism
Less than three years after U.S. troops left Iraq, political leaders and policy analysts are wrestling with how to respond to the growing turmoil there…. Read More
SecurityNews
Q&A: What You Need to Know About ISIS in Iraq
Four letters are topping headlines around the world: ISIS. Pinned at the center of the crisis in Iraq, it’s hard to read or watch the… Read More
InternationalSecurityAnalysis
The Iraq Meltdown: What Next?
The swift collapse of Iraqi security forces in northern Iraq in the face of an al-Qaeda-spearheaded Sunni insurgency is a disastrous setback for U.S. counterterrorism… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Iraq: Fall of Mosul Spells Disaster for U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
The sudden rout of Iraqi security forces in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, is a humiliating defeat for the Iraqi government, a severe blow to U.S…. Read More
Al-Qaeda: ‘Spreading Like Wildfire’
Last week, a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing provocatively titled “Is Al-Qaeda Winning?” The answers that the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade… Read More
Five Ways Obama’s Foreign Policies Have Failed
On a Moscow train platform, two men smoke and swap rumors in the frozen evening air. “I hear they’ve raised the Russian flag in Donetsk?”… Read More
Kerry Offers Himself as a Martyr for the Administration’s Failed Foreign Policy
During a recent Senate hearing, Secretary of State John Kerry said he would take the blame for any failures of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy,… Read More
Save Kessab: Kardashian, Others Tweet Plight of Christian Armenians in Syria
The “Save Kessab” campaign on Twitter and other social media has drawn international attention to the news that rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda crossed the Turkish… Read More
Israel Intercepts Missile Shipment from Iran as U.S. Shortchanges Missile Defense
Last week, Iran was once again caught red-handed shipping arms, including advanced rockets, to Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists. The Israeli navy intercepted the Klos-C, a Panamanian-flagged… Read More
Ukraine Proves the Folly of Obama’s Russian Reset
The Obama administration’s Russian reset, designed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was premised on the idea of Russia as a partner with the United… Read More
Erdogan’s Turkey Goes Soft on Terrorism
There is mounting evidence that longtime U.S. ally Turkey has gone soft on terrorism since the rise to power of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan…. Read More
