On October 11 in New York, the Justice Department charged Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, and Gholam Shakuri with an array of charges related to a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, by bombing a public venue in Washington, D.C. The plotters…
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Europe…
Abstract: After 9/11, the nations of Europe displayed extraordinary solidarity with the United States, and a decade later both sides of the Atlantic still know they need each other to fight the global threat of Islamist terror. But the EU–U.S. counterterrorism relationship has been marked as much by confrontation as…
With at least two ongoing wars, President-elect Barack Obama may well be entering the Oval Office facing the toughest national security landscape for any American president in some time. A tour of the foreign policy horizon shows that America's 44th president will have his hands full with a panoply of problems that would vex…
Ariel Cohen on Reuters 5/08/08 …
Heritage national security expert Peter Brookes tells WJLA's Capital Sunday that an attack on Iran is not inevitable and that Iran has no intention of engaging the United States. …
"Brookes discusses some of the world's most dangerous men, including Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who distributes textbooks to students that promote hatred of the U.S.; Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who has close ties to Castro and influences leftist movem …
Cohen discusses the probabilty of Hezbollah involvement and the impending threat posed by Iran in the Middle East. …
James Woolsey talks about the importance of investigating American citizens to combat terrorism. …
Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on January 31, Director of National Intelligence (DNI)...…
There has been a lot of discussion recently of Iranian involvement in Latin America, especially with the recent plot...…
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta presided over a muted ceremony in Baghdad yesterday marking the end of the U.S....…
In a lengthy piece on December 13, the New York Times reported on the role Western Hemisphere drug trafficking plays in...…
In this week's Heritage in Focus, expert Ray Walser discusses the increasingly anti-U.S. policies in Latin...…
Hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Syrian cities on Friday to call for the ouster of...…
Iran is one of the most dangerous and evil regimes in the world. The protests in Egypt and Tunisia have distracted U.S....…
Two years of President Barak Obama’s Middle Eastern foreign policy, and especially its handling of the Egyptian...…
From the outset of the Obama presidency and the emergence of the Obama Doctrine, the similarities between this...…
The Obama Administration’s engagement policy suffered two major defeats in recent days due to the collapse of...…