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May 4, 2025, 12:29 AM

Israel, the Druze and Syria’s reign of lies

Members of Syria's security forces stand guard next to their vehicles in the capital Damascus on April 29, 2025, following overnight sectarian clashes that left nine people including six Druze fighters dead. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Damascus pretends to be moderate while inciting deadly violence against minorities and building a sectarian jihadist regime

Apr 16, 2025, 10:14 AM

Ensuring National Security in the Age of AI-Driven Extremism

About a month ago, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Advisor on Asymmetric Warfare at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. During the hearing, he urgently encouraged legislators to address the...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Apr 3, 2025, 6:38 AM

Iowa in the Middle East, from The Dayton Leader

Captain Johnson

On March 25, a town hall meeting was held in the Readiness Center in Fort Dodge to discuss the local Army’s impending deployment to the Middle East. Captain Johnson, of the Iowa Army National Guard’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team,...

Giovanni Giacalone

Mar 29, 2025, 11:15 AM

Game over for the jihadist serial killer who terrorized northern Spain

On March 25 in Beziers, France, a joint operation of the French police in collaboration with the Guardia Civil, the Spanish National Police and the Mossos d'Esquadra, brought to the arrest of Allal El Mourabit Ahammarb, a convicted jihadist...

Mar 14, 2025, 5:11 PM

Dimitri’s Message of Hope to The Hostage Families

Foto in Alleppo Syria. Narcisso contreras fotographer and Wael Essam.

A Story of Courage, Resilience, and Redemption “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” - William Shakespeare LinkedIn is fantastic! I first connected with Dimitri Bontinck on LinkedIn, a platform that continues...

Mar 12, 2025, 5:18 AM

Media Disdain for Syrian Christians: Predictable

Just days ago hundreds of Alawite, Christian and Druze civilians—men, women and children—were killed by the Syrian forces which recently toppled the Assad regime and took control of the country. Ostensibly the conflict isn’t over quite yet, at least...

Feb 9, 2025, 4:55 PM

The Divergent Fates of ISIS and Hamas: Why One Fell and the Other Endures

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Hamas have both been designated as terrorist organizations by various governments, yet their trajectories differ significantly. ISIS, a transnational insurgent group, was dismantled as a territorial entity through a coordinated...

Jan 28, 2025, 8:38 AM

New Leader New Syria or Next Revolutionary Gamble?

As revolution flags flutter over the newly liberated squares and presidential palaces of Syria, a man in a suit stands tall beneath the rising sun, flanked by his masked guards. This man speaks, and the people follow. His name...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Jan 7, 2025, 3:36 AM

Islamic State Inspiration, from the Dayton Leader

The threat of spreading terrorism is what Israel is fighting to stop. The terrorism that infiltrated Israel’s borders on October 7, 2023, still threatens to not only cross their borders, but the borders of other countries as well. The threat not...

Jan 5, 2025, 8:03 AM

What Yuval Noah Harari got wrong about terror

Yemenis set fire to US and Israeli flags during a demonstration in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on December 27, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Don't think terrorists are trivial just because their goals don’t lead to democracy; they are powerful, their ideas inspire millions, and we must fight them

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