Analysis & Commentary
Ethiopian Muslims Under Siege
Ethiopian Muslims participated today in a massive nationwide demonstration against measures taken by the government in Addis Ababa to limit religious freedom.
MUJAO Suicide Bombers Hit Uranium Mine, Barracks in Niger
A pair of suicide bombers from the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Oneness or Unity] and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) killed 19 people, including 18 soldiers...
Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi
‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-policy...
Time for the EU to Outlaw All of Hezbollah
The European Union moved closer on Monday to sanctioning the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah when the United Kingdom announced that it filed a formal request...
Germany Backs Blacklisting Hezbollah Military Wing
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle decided Wednesday to support listing Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization in the European Union, according to German diplomatic sources.
New Ideas for Cooperatively Preventing WMD Attacks from the Middle East
The danger that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from the Middle East will be used against the United States or its allies has been heightened by several recent developments.
Catastrophic Consensus: A Dissent From Spengler and Mead
Spengler (aka David Goldman) is one of my close friends and a long-time guru. William Russell Mead is just a guru, but I’m an avid fan. So when I find myself disagreeing...
Saudi Arabia Blocks Access to Jpost.com
Saudi Arabia’s government appears to have denied access to the website of the Jerusalem Post since early May. The conservative British-based news and opinion website—The Commentator...
US Drones Strike Again in Yemen, Kill 2 AQAP Fighters
The US launched its second drone strike in Yemen in four days, killing two members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in an area in the central part of the country.
Taliban Suicide Bomber Assassinates Senior Politician in Afghan North
The Taliban have claimed credit for a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan that killed the head of the provincial council in Baghlan province. The suicide bomber, who was dressed in a police uniform...
How North Korea Could Cripple the U.S.
Over the past three days, North Korea has launched six short-range guided missiles or projectiles in tests that landed in the Sea of Japan. The launches were of a piece with Pyongyang's...
Collision Course
President Obama is on a collision course with his allies on Syria. As Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, France, and Britain call for more aggressive steps to topple Bashar al-Assad...
US Drones Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in First Strike in Yemen in a Month
US drones launched the first strike in Yemen in a month, killing four "militants" in an attack on a vehicle carrying explosives in a southern town plagued by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
ISAF Targets al Qaeda Facilitator in Eastern Afghanistan
During a raid in Nuristan province on May 15, Afghan and Coalition special operations forces targeted a senior Taliban leader who is known to assist members of al Qaeda in Afghanistan...
How Iran Benefits From an Illicit Gold Trade With Turkey
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrived in Washington, D.C. for a much-anticipated summit with President Barack Obama. The timing of the visit -- amid reports of chemical weapons...
Iran’s Extending Influence in East Africa
The Sudan Tribune reported last week that Iranian forces were preparing to train Sudan’s navy. The move was not exactly surprising. In the last few months alone...
Petraeus’s Objection to the Benghazi Talking Points
After nearly two days of editing, then CIA director David Petraeus was sent the revised Benghazi talking points on September 15, 2012. He was less than impressed, to put it mildly.
Why Iran’s Elections Will Not Be Democratic
Six hundred and eighty six Iranian citizens have registered as candidates for the eleventh presidential elections scheduled to be held in Iran on Friday, June 14, 2013.
Al Nusrah Front’s Emir to be Added to US Terrorism List
The US State Department will add Sheikh Abu Muhammad al Julani, the emir of al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists in a decision to be announced...
Night at the Newseum
Inspire is a glossy, English-language, online magazine published by al-Qaeda. It was conceived by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric and al-Qaeda leader, who also contributed editorials.
