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    FDD Morning Brief

    The Middle East never stops moving. Neither does the FDD Morning Brief.

    Three mornings a week, FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer cuts through the noise with the experts who have spent their careers studying, shaping, and living the region’s most consequential moments. All before your morning coffee gets cold.

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    The Houthis' Saudi siege | feat. Edmund Fitton-Brown Sep 23, 2026
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    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 administration is reportedly setting up a multi-billion dollar investment fund to help repair the energy infrastructure destroyed by Iran in the Persian Gulf.
    • In an exclusive for The New York Times, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi laid out his plan to disarm Iran-backed Iraqi militias.
    • Israeli troops conducted multiple counterterrorism operations in Judea and Samariah during the Yom Kippur holiday on Monday.

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    FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Senior Fellow Edmund Fitton-Brown.

    Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief


    China steals America's AI edge | feat. Leah Siskind Sep 18, 2026
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    Tehran squeezes Riyadh | feat. Bernard Haykel Sep 16, 2026
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    The truth about America's munitions crisis | feat. Mark Cancian Sep 14, 2026
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    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 ahead of a conversation with Mark Cancian, senior adviser with the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).


    Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief


    25 years after 9/11 | feat. Bruce Hoffman Sep 11, 2026
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    Headlines:

    • The Houthis seized the Yemeni port of Mokha yesterday, days after launching a combinedballistic missile and drone attack in Saudi Arabia.
    • President Trump warned that the U.S. could strike Pickaxe Mountain — the deeply buried, hard-to-reach nuclear facility in central Iran near Natanz.
    • Algeria severed diplomatic ties with the UAE, citing quote “provocative or hostile” actions.
    • Iran’s Basij force is reportedly tightening its grip over the country under the direction of its returning commander, Hossein Taeb.

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    FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of the Council on Foreign Relations.

    Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief


    The beauty queen of wartime Jerusalem | feat. Swell Ariel Or Sep 09, 2026
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    The FBI's war on terror financing | feat. Lara Burns Sep 04, 2026
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    The ABCs of foreign funding in K-12 | feat. Brandy Shufutinsky Sep 02, 2026
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    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,” disarm Hezbollah and deploy to areas of south Lebanon as Israel gradually withdraws from them.
    • Israel will build a multi-tier air defense system to defend Greece against drones, ballistic missiles, and other aerial threats.
    • The Houthi terrorist group in Yemen is deepening its ties with Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab.

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    FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Brandy Shufutinsky, director of FDD’s Education and National Security Program.

    Learn more at: fdd.org/fddmorningbrief


    Israel's post-October 7 election | feat. Yohanan Plesner Aug 31, 2026
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    The Israel-Turkey collision course | feat. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak Aug 28, 2026
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    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 as violence over there continues to escalate.
    • Iranians this week rushed to stock up on fuel and food in anticipation of supply shortages.

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    FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with world-renowned Turkey scholar Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak.

    Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief


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