Sean Durns

Sean Durns was the deputy commentary editor for the Washington Examiner. He is now the director of the Counter Extremist Research Center at the Capital Research Center.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaves after attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Defense Ministers' Meeting in Cebu, central Philippines, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026.

Op-Eds

Mao’s ‘magic weapon’: Hegseth just exposed 80 rebranded Chinese cells on campus

Sean Durns · November 2, 2026 7:00 am

A protester dressed as Spiderman gestures as a car burns during a demonstration at Place de Republique.

Op-Eds

The France riots aren’t a student revolt — they’re supported by CCP-tied dark money

Sean Durns · October 23, 2026 5:00 am

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul el Sayed.

Op-Eds

Abdul el Sayed’s red-green suicide pact: Islamists always hang their leftist allies first

Sean Durns · October 19, 2026 8:00 am

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., visits the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer.

Op-Eds

Insanity: Ro Khanna is dead wrong — Terrorists aren’t peacemakers

Sean Durns · October 5, 2026 7:00 am

Israeli troops enter the Arab city of Ramleh during Israel’s War of Independence, July 25, 1948. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Magazine

Israel’s long quest for defensible borders

Sean Durns · October 2, 2026 7:20 am

Osama bin Laden, left, and Ayman al Zawahiri are seen in October 2001.

In Focus

What al Qaeda wants and the road to 9/11

Sean Durns · September 10, 2026 2:00 pm

The CIA has released the bulk of the Osama bin Laden documents, which show just how deep Iran-al Qaeda links are.

Beltway Confidential

The man who made Osama bin Laden

Sean Durns · September 10, 2026 12:36 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Defense

Inside Israel’s ‘war room’ of rivals

Sean Durns · September 7, 2026 6:00 pm

A Palestinian masked Hamas gunmen holds his rifle as he guards during a rally in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014.

In Focus

‘Oct. 7 isn’t over yet’

Sean Durns · September 7, 2026 2:00 pm

Smoke and flames rise at the site of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran.

Foreign Policy

Bringing the Middle East to a boil

Sean Durns · August 26, 2026 9:56 am

Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.

Beltway Confidential

Is the US right to remove Syria’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism?

Sean Durns · August 25, 2026 2:23 pm

President Donald Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun

Beltway Confidential

Peace in Lebanon? Not in our time

Sean Durns · July 24, 2026 2:19 pm