FDD Morning Brief

The FBI's war on terror financing | feat. Lara Burns

Headlines: Russia is helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles.Remember the Gaza flotilla? Well, it’s back. Leaders from the so-called “Freedom Flotilla Coalition”

The ABCs of foreign funding in K-12 | feat. Brandy Shufutinsky

Headlines: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun petitioned Greece to help implement a future peace agreement with Israel, which would see the Lebanese Armed Forces, or “LAF,”

Israel's post-October 7 election | feat. Yohanan Plesner

Headlines: USAID, the US Agency for International Development,released a new report on Friday, confirming what we already knew — namely, that UNRWA, the UN Relief and Wo

The Israel-Turkey collision course | feat. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

Headlines: Kuwait and Pakistan signed a military cooperation agreement yesterday, building on a deal signed in 2023. The IDF is poised to surge troops into the West Bank

Economic D-Day against Tehran | feat. Miad Maleki

Headlines: China blasted the United States after the Trump administration rolled out Operation Economic Outcast, its new pressure campaign to completely isolate Iran fro

The elusive exit from the Iran war | feat. Jonathan Tobin

Headlines: Some mixed messages out of Iran’s rump regime. We’ve got President Masoud Pezeshkian saying that a new MOU is the best way out of the war. He warned that the

Syria's Russian reconstruction | feat. Anna Borshchevskaya

Headlines: The Trump Administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s president and top lawyer over their egregious, corrupt, politicized conduct.The United

War and the Board of Peace | feat. Shira Efron

Headlines: The U.S. and Israel have agreed to establish two Gaza working groups: one related to Hamas disarmament and the other to public health in the Strip. Russia is

Toppling Tehran | feat. Emily Schrader

Headlines: The rump regime in Iran claims that the government of Qatar is holding three of its pilots that were shot down in the open stages of the most recent war.The H

A university blooms in wartime Israel | feat. Daniel Chamowitz

Headlines: A tense situation is playing out in the West Bank village of Qusra. Israeli settlers, or perhaps not settlers but anarchists, depending upon who you talk to,h

Congress' MidEast mindset | feat. Laura Kelly

Headlines: U.S. forces fired on a Panama-flagged ship early Tuesday for running Washington's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, hitting its rudder after the crew ignored

The impact of the Mecca pact | feat. Steven Cook

Headlines: The IDF and the Shin Bet have acknowledged that a special unit has been established to hunt down and kill every single Palestinian terrorist involved in the O

The deal with disarming Hamas | feat. Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Headlines: Mossad chief Roman Gofman has removed two of the agency's top officials over their role in a failed plan to topple Iran's regime. Speaking of the regime: Iran

Israel between war and politics | feat. Nadav Eyal

Headlines: Syria reportedly agreed to decrease its Russian oil imports. The International Monetary Fund, or “IMF,” announced a new technical assistance program for the

The rise of the Axis of Aggressors | feat. Bradley Bowman

Headlines: Two more Iranian nationals have been executed by the regime for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel.Reports are swirling in the region that the Saudis may ne

Iran's conflict calculus | feat. Norman Roule

Headlines: Last night President Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to give up its weapons and hand over power in Gaza to the newly established National Committee for

America's next strategic test | feat. LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster

Bradley Bowman, senior director of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP), fills in for Jonathan Schanzer, providing timely situational updates and analysis

Defusing Iran's nuclear ambitions | feat. Richard Goldberg

FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer provides timely updates and in-depth analysis of the latest Middle East headlines, followed by a conversation with FDD Senior Adv

Digging into Pickaxe Mountain | feat. Ilan Berman

Headlines: Greece is planning to buy a multi-layer air defense system, drones, and other military aircraft from Israel. Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs is pushing

The MidEast view from Capitol Hill | feat. Alexandria Paolozzi Moore

Headlines: The Lebanese Armed Forces started deploying troops to areas in south Lebanon formerly held by the IDF.The Iran-backed Houthis sent an email blast to shipping