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How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror
An in-depth look at Hamas's numerous means of financing terrorist operations like the October 7 assault on Israel, including recommendations for shutting off this flow of illicit funding.
Oct 25, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
Brief Analysis
Putting the Hamas Massacre, and Hamas Denials, in Context
The group’s own documentation of atrocities belies its claims that it did not target civilians.
Oct 25, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
  • Delaney Soliday
◆ Tracking International Reactions to the Hamas-Israel War
AWH threat against U.S. bases in Kuwait and the UAE, October 24, 2023
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Kataib Hezbollah's Facade Group Threatens Gulf States Again
An Iran-aligned group that presaged two previous drone attacks on Gulf cities has issued a new threat against U.S. targets in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
Oct 24, 2023
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  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
Brief Analysis
Echoes of 1983 Beirut Bombings in Current Iranian Proxy Escalation
As Israel prepares to dislodge Hamas from Gaza, Iran and its proxies are extending their threats to the United States, recalling the Beirut bombings that Hezbollah carried out forty years ago at Tehran’s behest.
Oct 23, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
A Marine Corps training jet on board the USS Gerald Ford, CVN-78 - source: Department of Defense
Articles & Testimony
Will Hezbollah Target American Assets Amid Israel’s War on Gaza?
Iranian proxies are deliberately escalating against American forces in the region as a warning against continued support for Israel’s war, but Hezbollah attacks would take the crisis to a different level.
Oct 23, 2023
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  • David Schenker
Articles & Testimony
The Mission Ahead for Israel
Although the immediate goal is to destroy Hamas’s terrorist regime in Gaza, there is no viable alternative to a political solution in the longer term.
Oct 21, 2023
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  • Zohar Palti
  • Neomi Neumann
Figure 1 Islamic Resistance taking responsibility for targeting Tanf
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Profile: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq
The Telegram brand that emerged in October 2023 is not a group per se, but rather a generic name used to denote unity among Iran-backed armed groups and deemphasize their individual identities during attacks spurred by the Gaza war.
Oct 21, 2023
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  • Hamdi Malik
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight: Profiles
Figure 3 A 5x3 cube of 107mm rockets, Baghdad, October 19, 2023.
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Facade Group Linked to Iran Claims Five Attacks on Americans in Iraq and Syria
A new Telegram account claiming anti-U.S. attacks is linked to Iran's Qods Force and other designated terrorist organizations.
Oct 20, 2023
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  • Amir al-Kaabi
  • Michael Knights
  • Hamdi Malik
◆ Militia Spotlight
Gaza cover
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Signs of Iranian Coordination in Iraqi Base Attacks and Messaging
Iran's proxies undertook two drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, and the related social media operations suggest that Iran's Qods Force played a coordinating function.
Oct 18, 2023
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  • Amir al-Kaabi
  • Hamdi Malik
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
KH Gaza
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Coded Militia Language Aims to Signal Escalation
The Iraqi "resistance" is using language that previously presaged attacks on U.S. targets, whether sincerely or as a supportive bluff amid the latest Hamas-Israel crisis.
Oct 16, 2023
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  • Hamdi Malik
  • Crispin Smith
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
Articles & Testimony
A Major Pivot in Hamas Strategy
Given its willingness to dramatically change targets and tactics, the group likely aims to halt the recent advance of Arab-Israeli normalization and rouse other actors into joining the fight.
Oct 16, 2023
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  • Devorah Margolin
A memorial in Tel Aviv to the victims of the OCtober 7 Hamas terror attacks - source: Reuters
Articles & Testimony
Why 10/7 Was Worse for Israel Than 9/11 Was for America
In its scope, depravity, and national reach, the Hamas assault was a much greater shock to Israelis, and their response should be viewed through that lens.
Oct 15, 2023
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  • Robert Satloff
Muqawama Gaza
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Iran-Backed Militias Applaud Hamas, Threaten Americans
Iraq's "resistance" militias all rhetorically supported the attack on Israel, but with interesting differences: Badr threatened Americans, while others seemed to downplay potential involvement.
Oct 13, 2023
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  • Amir al-Kaabi
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
Articles & Testimony
Hamas Attacks: A Turning Point for U.S. Policy
A Statement of Washington Institute Experts
The October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel represent a turning point that should bring home oft-overlooked realities about the Middle East and compel U.S. policymakers to rethink preconceptions about the region and America's role and interests in it.
Oct 13, 2023
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  • Robert Satloff
  • Dennis Ross
  • Michael Singh
  • Patrick Clawson
Brief Analysis
Hezbollah Miscalculations and the Gaza War
The group might be content with its existing political gains from the conflict, but Washington should still try to shift its calculus given the grave risks of a wider war.
Oct 12, 2023
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  • Hanin Ghaddar
Articles & Testimony
The War Hamas Always Wanted
Despite the completely surprising nature of the attack, Hamas did in fact give multiple signals that a major operation was in the works.
Oct 11, 2023
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  • Matthew Levitt
Articles & Testimony
Israel Focused on the Wrong Iranian Threat, With Deadly Results
Although the existential nature of the nuclear threat understandably demanded attention, Hamas and other Iranian proxies have dramatically increased their capabilities in the meantime.
Oct 10, 2023
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  • David Schenker
Muqwama homosexuality
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Militias Welcome Killing of LGBTQ Celebrity: Coordination Framework Pushes to Make Homosexuality Illegal
Iran-backed militias within the Coordination Framework are leading the call to criminalize alternative lifestyles and celebrating the murder of a queer Iraqi through their social media platforms.
Oct 2, 2023
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  • Hamdi Malik
  • Michael Knights
◆ Militia Spotlight
A hotel building in Kabul damaged by a bomb claimed by the Islamic State affiliate ISKIP - source: Reuters
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Brief Analysis
The Next Afghan Jihad? Taliban Efforts to Contain ISKP
Three experts discuss how the Islamic State branch’s capacity to operate globally has evolved in troubling fashion since the coalition withdrawal.
Oct 2, 2023
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  • Amira Jadoon
  • Andrew Mines
  • Aaron Y. Zelin
Articles & Testimony
The Future of Homeland Security: Addressing the Rise of Terrorism in Africa
While finding ways to fill the vacuum left by the withdrawal of French forces, Washington and its allies must not forget that counterterrorism and great power competition with Russia are inextricably linked in these conflict zones.
Sep 27, 2023
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  • Aaron Y. Zelin

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Matthew Levitt
Matthew Levitt
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute.
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Devorah Margolin
Devorah Margolin is the Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute.
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Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy where his research focuses on Sunni Arab jihadi groups in North Africa and Syria as well as the trend of foreign fighting and online jihadism.
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