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Iran Steps Up Its Global Terrorism Campaign
AY-COLLECTION/SIPA/Newscom Senior Obama Administration officials held a background briefing on Friday in which they discussed the “alarming trend” of escalating Iranian support for terrorism. Two...
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Obama Reinforces Failure with Susan Rice Nomination
President Obama gets high marks for loyalty to his closest political friends and allies, but his nomination of Susan Rice as National Security Adviser shows that his concern for the realistic security...
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Egypt: Morsi Regime Shaken by Massive Protests and Army Ultimatum
Li Muzi/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, whose authoritarian misrule has provoked massive protests, is desperately clinging to power. Egypt has been roiled by nationwide...
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Q&A: U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt
Raphael Fournier/Sipa USA/Newscom James Phillips, Heritage’s senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs, answers key questions about U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. What is U.S. foreign aid to Egypt?...
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Iran’s Covert Cyber War
Newscom Over the weekend, Hassan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, was officially sworn in as Iran’s new president. Unfortunately, there are no indications that he will curtail Iran’s nuclear...
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Israel and Palestine Talks: Kerry Should Learn from the Past
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Newscom A recent poll shows that most Israelis are pessimistic that the new round of talks with Palestine will succeed. A majority of Israelis also oppose withdrawing to pre-1967...
View ArticleIran Warns of Retaliation over Syrian Crisis
If the Obama Administration follows through with its planned “shot across the bow” of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, it should be prepared to deal with the unintended consequences of such action....
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Assad Has Friends Closer Than You Think
EFE/David Fernandez/Newscom Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has anti-American friends in the Western Hemisphere. In a move to exert his somewhat newly minted leadership status, Nicolas Maduro, the...
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Obama at United Nations: The World Is Safer—or It Isn’t
Newscom President Obama this morning laid out a foreign policy roadmap for the remainder of his presidency. However, his audience at the United Nations General Assembly might be excused for finding...
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Netanyahu: Don’t Be Fooled by Iran’s Rouhani
Kobi Gideon/G.P.O./SIPA/Newscom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday not to fall prey to Iranian President Rouhani’s smooth talk. Netanyahu argued that...
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U.S. Allies Voice Alarm over Obama’s Middle East Policies
Newscom Saudi Arabia and Israel, two key U.S. allies, have publicly challenged the Obama Administration’s Middle East policies this week and expressed alarm over the unraveling of America’s reputation...
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Iran Gains Sanctions Relief from the Obama Administration
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (Newscom) The Obama Administration, eagerly seeking a deal on Iran’s nuclear program, is now signaling that it will ease the sanctions that finally forced Tehran to the...
View ArticleA Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran Could Lead to War
The deal that the Obama Administration struck at the Geneva talks yesterday amounts to a flawed agreement that risks reducing sanctions pressure on Iran over next six months in return for easily...
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Q&A on the Iran Nuclear Deal
Iranians flash the victory sign to celebrate their government’s new nuclear deal. (Photo: ARASH KHAMOOSHI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) James Phillips, Heritage’s Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda Resurges in Iraq
Al-Qaeda, which has surged in strength on both sides of the Iraq–Syria border, captured two important cities in western Iraq on Friday. The seizure of Fallujah and Ramadi underscores the growing threat...
View ArticleErdogan’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. Erdogan, whom President Obama claims is a close...
View ArticleIsrael Intercepts Missile Shipment from Iran as U.S. Shortchanges Missile...
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 ship, in...
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The Obama Administration Looks Weak by Considering Pollard as Bargaining Chip
AFP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN/Newscom According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration is considering releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from a federal penitentiary, and using him as a...
View ArticlePalestinian Reconciliation Deal Derails Kerry’s Peace Efforts
The reconciliation agreement announced between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on April 23 is a severe setback for peace prospects and a slap in the face for Secretary of State John Kerry,...
View ArticleKerry’s ‘Apartheid State’ Remark Was ‘Absolutely Appalling’
Heritage’s Nile Gardiner called Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning last week—that Israel was in danger of ultimately becoming “an apartheid state”—an “absolutely appalling” remark in an interview...
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