By David Smith, Michael McGowan, Christopher Knaus, and Nick Evershed, The Guardian Two Muslim US congresswomen have been targeted by a vast international operation that exploits far-right pages on Facebook to inflame Islamophobia for profit, a Guardian investigation has found. A mysterious Israeli-based group uses 21 Facebook pages to churn out more than a thousand coordinated fake news posts…

The National Interest Foundation Newsletter Issue 22, December 5, 2019 Welcome to the latest edition of the NIF Newsletter. This week, we recap our recent event on Capitol Hill regarding U.S. policy and human rights in the Middle East. In our domestic news headlines: President Trump makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan for Thanksgiving, and…

The National Interest Foundation (NIF) hosted an event on November 21st, 2019 in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill that focused on U.S. foreign policy and human rights in the Middle East. A number of distinguished individuals spoke on panels and discussed the impact that Western powers could have on promoting freedom and…

By Emraan Ansari The Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, said he would step down in January amid civil unrest over the unresolved murder of a journalist in 2017. Daphne Caruana Galizia was an investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist who was killed by a car bomb. Galizia exposed corruption at the highest levels of Malta’s…