Analysis & Commentary
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills 5 ISAF Personnel in Southeastern Afghanistan
The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack in southeastern Afghanistan today that killed three Coalition soldiers and two civilian personnel who worked for the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team.
Why is the West Doing Business with Sudan?
What does Canada have in common with the regime in Sudan, which perpetrated genocide in Darfur, while allying with Iran and providing weapons to the Palestinian terror group Hamas?
Increased Targeting of IMU Continues in Afghan North
During an operation in the northern province of Baghlan on April 3, Afghan and Coalition special operations forces arrested another leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The raid was the 13th operation...
Being the Jew in the Box
It’s not often that someone compares you to the Hottentot Venus, Tilda Swinton, and Adolf Eichmann, all in the same hour. But yesterday, depending on your point of view, I was all three. In the week since the Jewish Museum in Berlin...
The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing
The student union at York University in Toronto has voted, by a margin of 18-2, to endorse the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement against Israel — a gesture that follows on BDS votes by several...
The Jew in a Box
It's safe to assume that the German organizers of an exhibit that centers around a Jew sitting in a Plexiglas box, answering questions from museum-goers, anticipated some controversy.
Holy Wars
In much of what we now call the Muslim world, Muslims are fighting Muslims. The conflicts fall into two broad categories: those in which militants battle militants, and those in which militants battle moderates. The outcomes of these conflicts matter.
Taliban Suicide Assault Team Strikes Courtroom in Western Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide assault team stormed a courthouse in western Afghanistan today in an attempt to free Taliban prisoners who were on trial. The Taliban assault team, estimated at between six to nine fighters,...
Bulgaria: Bomber Used 3kg. of TNT in Burgas Attack
Bulgarian authorities released new evidence on Tuesday about the amount of explosives used in the alleged Hezbollah bombing of an Israeli tour bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas in July...
What More Will It Take for the EU to Ban Hezbollah?
Last July, the then–foreign minister of Cyprus, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country held the European Union’s rotating presidency, stated, “Should there be tangible evidence of Hezbollah...
Neglecting the Costs of Inaction
Ten years after the launch of the Iraq War, the litany of costs associated with this allegedly “failed” mission has been repeated ad infinitum: some 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians, more than 4,000 dead...
MUJAO Leader Says Belmokhtar is Alive
The leader of the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Unity] and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) has contradicted reports that wanted jihadist military commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in Mali...
Hamas Leadership Selection: An Initial Assessment
After months of fits and starts, Hamas finally completed its internal leadership elections, news sources report. The head of the politburo will again be Khaled Meshal, who had previously expressed his intent to step down.
‘Iranian Militia Monitored Bulgarian Synagogue’
A US-based think tank report has uncovered surveillance by Iranian militia Qods Force of the only synagogue in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. This suggests possible preparations for terrorist activity...
Iran’s Time Bomb
When US Vice-President Joe Biden finally got to comment on Iran in his recent speech at the policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington D.C., he lowered his voice almost to a whisper...
At the U.N., Iran Is a Powerhouse, Not a Pariah
President Obama likes to describes Iran as "isolated." But there is nothing lonely about Iran's berth at the United Nations, where in the corridors and on the boards of powerful agencies...
Free Syrian Army Commander Praises Al Nusrah Front as ‘Brothers’
Colonel Riyad al Assad, the founder of the Free Syrian Army and one of its top commanders, described the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, as "our brothers in Islam,"...
Return to Realism
Last Friday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made a call to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, resolving the dispute between the two countries following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
American Who Fought for Al Nusrah Front Arrested in US
A former American soldier who admitted to fighting for al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria has been arrested and charged with "conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction outside of the United States."...
African AQ Affiliate Groups Leave Signatures in Mali
Al-Qaeda affiliated groups in northern Mali launched a two-pronged attack in Gao last weekend. There were no reported fatalities; Malian soldiers were able to repel both attacks.
