Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Does the name, Dmitry Medvedev ring a bell? If not, let me remind you. He was president of Russia from 2008 to 2012. Perhaps you’ll recall that, in 2012, President Obama told him that their disagreement over American missile defense in Europe could be resolved. On a hot mic, Mr. Obama added: “This is my last election.

On September 23, the US-backed Board of Peace (BoP) unveiled a $2.45 billion, six-month Gaza recovery plan, but its implementation remains stalled by disagreements over Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal. The following day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

VIDEO Edmund joins Fox LiveNOW to discuss the future of the Iran conflict after President Trump rejected a proposal from Iran aimed at ending the conflict and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Most Americans think GPS merely provides directions: open the map, follow the blue dot and get where you need to go. But that’s just the consumer application. The national security applications of GPS are much bigger and more consequential. Unless the U.S. government makes this system of satellites surrounding the globe more resilient, however, adversaries can disrupt or falsify information, putting American security and productivity at risk.

Mahan Air, which Washington sanctioned in 2011 for ferrying weapons and operatives for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is still landing in China. On September 23, hours after the U.S. Treasury Department’s deadline for foreign firms to stop servicing Iranian airlines expired, a Mahan flight from Tehran landed at Guangzhou. China is now the biggest gap in Washington’s effort to ground Iran’s airlines, less by Beijing’s decision than because Washington has not yet forced one.

Two years after Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah finds itself commemorating its dead leader from a weaker position. Israel has killed thousands of Hezbollah fighters and occupies part of southern Lebanon. The terror organization’s finances are also constrained: though Iran sent Hezbollah more than $1 billion in 2025, the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria constricted its transfer routes.

Why are more than 40 countries boycotting the UN event?

“A dream come true.” That is how President Donald Trump described an agreement the United States, Denmark and Greenland signed on Sept. 22. He says it will guarantee America’s “permanent control over security” of the Danish territory. In reality, the deal largely restates defense arrangements already in place.

The race to choose the next U.N. secretary-general has yet to produce a clear frontrunner, but at least one candidate currently making headway should ring alarm bells in Washington. The most recent straw poll of U.N. Security Council members showed Rebeca Grynspan, a former Costa Rican vice-president who has led the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development since 2021, with a razor-thin lead.

The latest round of conflict between Pakistan and the Taliban continued this past week, including airstrikes, cross-border attacks, targeted operations, and a car bombing. The fighting appears likely to continue unless intermediaries can help bring about a ceasefire between the former allies. On September 24, Pakistan conducted airstrikes on 10 targets in Afghanistan that it said were used to conduct drone attacks against Pakistan.