Beyond the headlines.

Ryan Mauro is a national security analyst and investigative researcher who has spent more than 22 years exposing extremist movements, foreign threats, and the forces undermining and manipulating American civil society. He follows the evidence and brings it to law enforcement, to people in harm’s way, and to the public.

Earlier in his career, he was a national security analyst and director of intelligence at Clarion Project. He helped develop it into a think tank and intelligence operation, conceived the Clarion Intelligence Network, and worked with analysts and confidential sources. The team delivered more than 1,000 evidence reports to law enforcement concerning Islamist, far-left, and far-right suspects and networks.

Ryan has made more than 2,000 media appearances across outlets with different political audiences, including Fox News Channel and Arab television. He has written more than 1,500 published articles and is an official Newsmax TV contributor.

His work has been referenced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

For more than a decade, Ryan taught as an adjunct professor at Regent University, covering U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and homeland security. At Liberty University, he taught terrorism and political science.

His guest instruction has included law-enforcement training conferences, the Homeland Security Professionals Conference, the Defense Department, the Middle East Forum, Coptic Solidarity, and Brookdale Community College’s Center for World War Two Studies and Conflict Resolution.

After the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover, Ryan founded the volunteer-driven Afghan Liberty Project. Through evacuations, emergency rescue, humanitarian aid, and a network of safe houses, the project assisted approximately 1,500 at-risk Afghans, including former U.S. partners, Christians, and human-rights activists.

Ryan holds a master’s degree in political science, a bachelor’s degree in intelligence studies, and a graduate certificate in Middle East studies from American Military University. He also earned an Islamic Studies Certificate from Islamic Online University to study the ideology firsthand.

He began working as a geopolitical and international-security analyst in 2002, when he was 16. That early work led to representation by the William Morris Agency through 2009. He was selected to speak at the International Intelligence Summit in 2005 and 2006 alongside former intelligence directors, senior military leaders, and other national-security specialists.

Ryan created the documentary Finding the Mountain of Moses: The Real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia. It has drawn nearly 10 million views in 42 languages and aired on Newsmax TV.

His research trips have taken him to Israel, Palestinian-majority areas, Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey.