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.

Israeli soldiers stand guard at the scene of an attack in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel, Thursday, March 17, 2016. Israeli security forces on Thursday shot and killed two Palestinians who stabbed and wounded a 20-year-old woman shortly after she got off a bus at the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.

Op-Eds

Israel may be facing a five-front war

Sean Durns · March 28, 2018 4:00 am

In this photo from 2017, a Palestinian protester waves a national flag during clashes on the Israeli border with Gaza.

Foreign Policy

US media are covering up Palestinians’ ‘pay to slay’ policy

Sean Durns · March 21, 2018 4:00 am

Fidel's brother and successor, Raul Castro, applauded former President Barack Obama's initiative to remove Havana from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Foreign Policy

Cuba’s terror nexus

Sean Durns · October 4, 2017 4:01 am

Terrorists of all types have long utilized the media for propaganda purposes. (AP Photo/Al Jazeera, File)

Op-Eds

How terrorists and tyrants do PR

Sean Durns · September 6, 2017 4:01 am

The battle lines of the next conflict would be ripe for propaganda purposes as well. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Op-Eds

Hezbollah’s media relations department

Sean Durns · August 2, 2017 4:01 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has doubtless been inspired to escalate his nuclear ambitions in part because of the failures of the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Op-Eds

The other North Korean threat

Sean Durns · July 19, 2017 4:01 am

Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, at an undisclosed location. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera via APTN)

Op-Eds

On al Qaeda, Iran speaks with forked tongue

Sean Durns · April 20, 2017 9:00 am

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of al Qaida's death were greatly exaggerated. Anticipatory obituaries appeared after the death of al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Al-Arabiya via APTN)

Beltway Confidential

Al Qaeda is back

Sean Durns · February 5, 2017 1:00 am

Long an implacable American foe, in recent years North Korea has enhanced its military capabilities to a frightening extent. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

National Security

North Korea: A clear and present danger

Sean Durns · December 20, 2016 12:00 pm

The Newseum claims it "educates the public about the value of a free press in a free society" and "promotes, explains and defends free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition." With this in mind, the Newseum created a memorial that recognizes "men and women who died or were killed while reporting the news." (AP Photo)

Op-Eds

The terrorist and the museum

Sean Durns · October 5, 2016 4:03 am

Two Palestinian Arab cousins murdered four Israelis and wounded 16 others in a terrorist attack in a Tel Aviv shopping center, on June 8. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Op-Eds

Missing the Palestinian after-terror after party

Sean Durns · July 6, 2016 4:01 am