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This multimedia tool—easily the most comprehensive of its kind—provides a novel, accessible way to understand the Islamic State’s global reach and activities. Beyond a traditional focus on attacks, find content from Islamic State media, designations, and legal cases.

President Biden’s role in high-stakes talks between Israel and Hamas is drawing attacks from his 2024 presidential challengers, pulling the fraught issue of hostage negotiations into America’s presidential race. At least four Americans are among the more than 100 people released by Hamas to date, amid intensive negotiations to free an estimated 240 people taken…

Hamas's ultimate goal is the destruction of Israel and to establish an Islamist state over the entire country. Despite its devastating attack on the weekend, the militant group is no closer to that outcome. So what, then, was its endgame?

In today's Morning Brief, Hamas's ultimate goal is the destruction of Israel and to establish an Islamist state over the entire country. Despite its devastating attack on the weekend, the militant group is no closer to that outcome. So what, then, was its endgame?

"Russia is seeking to come back on the Lebanese economic, political and diplomatic scene by activating its soft power," expert Yeghia Tashjian tells Newsweek.

A series of global trends that appear to be unconnected reveal a global threat that the world media should be taking very seriously: Germany’s purchase of

The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Supports Enhanced Focus on Chinese, Russian Challenges to U.S. in the Region The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is launching a new research program devoted to the policy challenges of Great Power competition in the Middle East, the organization announced.

Matthew Levitt Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he served both as a senior official within the departments terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, ...

Terrorists still raise money through crypto, but the impact is limited Evidence suggests crypto’s role in terrorism remains relatively minor: “It has not yet become a primary means of terror financing.” 1679 Total views Analysis We’re living today “amidst an explosion of risk related to fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, and data privacy,” said United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in February — and she specifically cited cryptocurrencies as a “tool t...

March 15, 2021   The following statement on U.S. policy toward Palestinian Authority elections has been endorsed by Washington Institute experts on the Middle East peace process: Elections are an important building block of democratic government, and the Biden administration should welcome moves toward the conduct of elections within the Palestinian Authority. However, should the PA decide to conduct elections with the participation of Hamas, this could have significant implications for the ab...