FDD Morning Brief

Keeping up with the Qataris | feat. Max Lesser

Headlines: On Wednesday, the State Department sanctioned three targets involved in smuggling man portable air defense systems, or “MANPADS,” to Iran. Yemen’s internation

Midterm election postmortem | feat. Tyler Stapleton

Headlines: Yemen’s internationally recognized government said yesterday that 21 Iranian and Hezbollah operatives are in Yemen overseeing Houthi military operations.Yeste

The state of the STC | feat. Amr Al-Bidh

Headlines: Qatar continues to try and prevent a return to fighting between the U.S. and Iran. British police arrested 139 people over the weekend as hundreds of protesto

Rewriting the U.S.-Israel MOU | feat. Samuel Ben-Ur

Headlines: Qatar is reportedly hard at work trying to avert renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran after the midterm elections next week. The Houthis may be lacing

Israel goes to the polls | feat. Lahav Harkov

Headlines: Russia is reportedly helping the Houthis and Iran-backed militias in Iraq target Saudi Arabia’s military and energy infrastructure.Last week, Libya and Turke

The battle for the Eastern Med | feat. Steven Cook

Headlines: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is reeling from an attack on a Greek Orthodox church on Friday afternoon. Hamas appears to be issuing threats that it likely c

The new rules of warfare | feat. Ryan Brobst

Headlines: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Ankara yesterday on the first-ever bilateral visit to Turkey for a Canadian prime minister. UN Secretary-Genera

Doha's duplicitous game | feat. Eitan Fischberger

Headlines: The UK is sending fighter jets to support Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthis.Pakistan’s military chief Field Marshal Asim Munir was in Tehran yeste

France under fire | feat. Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Headlines: Egypt’s National Defense Council agrees to provide Saudi Arabia with all necessary support in its war against the Houthis.Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced t

Tehran's AI-powered propaganda | feat. Jacob Breach

Headlines: The U.S. is allegedly considering dropping the “mother of all bombs” on Iran. Technically, it’s called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, and it’s

Al-Sharaa's Syria | feat. Andrew Tabler

Headlines: Yesterday, the Saudi-led coalition struck a Yemeni oil facility in Sanaa.The Iranian regime is using the pause in fighting to get ready for the next round. We

Turkey helps Iran fly under the radar | feat. Ahmad Sharawi

Headlines: Yemen’s armed forces, the ones loyal to the internationally recognized government in Southern Yemen, said they carried out 1,732 strikes against positions hel

Three years after October 7 | feat. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus

Headlines: Israel decided to downgrade the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem, but stopped short of fully closing the diplomatic post. Taiwan has its sights on $130 billion wor

This all-female IDF tank unit battled Hamas on October 7 | feat. Karni Guez

Headlines: The Houthis aren’t slowing down their offensive and continue to do damage in Saudi Arabia. Representatives from the Mecca pact — Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pa

47 years of war with Iran | feat. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA)

Headlines: Members of the Mecca defense pact are planning to meet in Riyadh today.Yesterday, Yemeni forces launched a military campaign to retake territory seized by the

Beirut battles for its future | feat. Ronnie Chatah

Headlines: The Trump administration overrode the human rights conditions on $320 million worth of military aid to Egypt. American troops are officially out of Iraq.The T

Is the UN rotten beyond reform? | feat. Ambassador Jeff Bartos

Headlines: Iran’s currency plummeted to a new low yesterday. We’re talking over 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar. Iran is reportedly offering cash rewards for anyone

Lebanon's sovereignty paradox | feat. Bilal Saab

Headlines: The internationally recognized government in Aden says it killed or injured 2,316 Houthis over the last 72 hours.Iran’s Rev Guards said yesterday that they se

The Divided Nations | feat. Ben Cohen

Headlines: China has reportedly sent tons of dual-use components to Iran for use in missiles and drones.Iran is once again threatening to attack its neighbors, this time

The Houthis' Saudi siege | feat. Edmund Fitton-Brown

Headlines: The UK has agreed to help Saudi Arabia fight the Houthis by providing aerial refueling services to Saudi planes for the next few weeks. The Trump administrati