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.

Emergency service workers at the scene of a stabbing incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England.

Beltway Confidential

Manchester attack shows a darkening future for Europe and its Jews

Sean Durns · October 2, 2025 3:05 pm

An altar with flags and portraits of the people kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 is seen during a peaceful demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Israel Fuguemann/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Magazine

Oct. 7, two years on: A watershed moment, but Israel is no stranger to war

Sean Durns · September 26, 2025 4:50 am

Magazine

The Hamas unit that hunts Palestinians

Sean Durns · September 12, 2025 4:40 am

Beltway Confidential

Why Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar matters

Sean Durns · September 9, 2025 3:26 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Houthis are down but far from out

Sean Durns · September 4, 2025 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Russia and China dream up a new World War II history

Sean Durns · September 4, 2025 5:30 am

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his shrine just outside Tehran, Iran, June 4, 2025.

Beltway Confidential

Australia attacks show Iran’s global antisemitic agenda

Sean Durns · August 26, 2025 4:21 pm

Fuselage and engine components are assembled for U.S. B-24 bombers at a Ford Motor Co. plant near Detroit, December 1942. (Archive Photos/Getty)

Magazine

What the last world war tells us about the next one

Sean Durns · August 15, 2025 5:15 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

US decision to use nuclear weapons ended World War II

Sean Durns · August 8, 2025 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The US-India partnership will endure

Sean Durns · August 6, 2025 6:00 am

In this handout released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Northrop Grumman, an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator launches from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on May 14, 2013, in the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo by Alan Radecki/U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman via Getty images)

Opinion

The Central Pacific is central to countering China

Sean Durns · August 4, 2025 6:00 am

A B-2 bomber arrives at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on June 22, after returning from a massive strike on Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday. (David Smith/AP)

Magazine

The fallout from Iranian nuclear facilities strikes

Sean Durns · July 25, 2025 4:30 am