Russ Read, Kyle Shideler, Guy Taylor, Dr. Ilan Berman

RUSS READ, National Security Reporter at The Daily Caller, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ParrabellumReport.com:

• Recent hostage swap has the US State Department hailing a diplomatic milestone while claims of victory are heard from the Mullahs in Tehran
• Continued appeasement to Iranian demands putting a price tag on Americans living abroad?
• Predictions of increased terror attacks in the West for 2016
• ISIS adopting an al Qaeda-esq strategy concerning extra-territorial violence

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Center for Security Policy’s Threat Information Office:

• Relations between Hamas and the Islamic State in the Sinai
• Islamic extremist groups enabling one another in the name of the Global Jihad Movement
• US troops in Afghanistan finally given the green light to engage ISIS fighters
• Faulty and unrealistic strategy of trying to establish a peace accord between the Taliban and Afghan government

GUY TAYLOR, National security team leader at The Washington Times:

• What does Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Riyadh, Cairo, and Tehran portend for the future of the Middle East?
• Crossover in the geopolitical strategies of Washington and Beijing in their desire for stability
• The ISIS pivot to Libya
• Religious significance of the Levant Caliphate

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• North Korea envious of the JCPOA and the generous sanctions relief given to Iran
• Will China crack down on Kim Jong-un?
• Looking at the Iranian cyber threat from a retaliatory angle
• How Iran’s hacking shows evidence of their mapping the US electric grid