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July 23, 2012 Interrogating Terror Review: ... July 23, 2012 No Sanctuary for Assad As we go to press, Bashar al-Assad seems to be losing Damascus, as he has lost much of the rest of the country. Reports last week suggested the Syrian president might already be in Latakia, the d... July 23, 2012 Toppling Iran’s Unsteady Regime Ordinary Iranians are having to tighten their belts since the European Union's oil embargo came into force on July 1. The decades of economic mismanagement by Iran's authoritarian leade... July 20, 2012 ISAF Targets IMU Leader in Afghan North Coalition and Afghan special operations forces again targeted an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader in the north. Special operations forces have targeted the al Qaeda and Taliban-linked IMU in... July 20, 2012 Oh, Brother Mohamed Morsy's young presidency in Egypt hasn't started all that smoothly. It's largely been characterized by a series of standoffs with the Egyptian military, including this week... July 19, 2012 Arming Ourselves Against Barbarians Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, I expected there would soon be consensus across ideological, national, and other lines that terrorism is wrong — that... July 19, 2012 Suicide Bomber Targeted Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria The blast that killed seven people, including five Israelis, on bus at an airport in Burgas yesterday was carried out by a suicide bomber dressed as a Western tourist, the Bulgarian government sa... July 19, 2012 How Obama’s Hands-Off Policy Paved the Way for the Assads’ (and Hezbollah’s) Downfall The good news is that Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime is on its last legs — the other legs having been blown out from under it by a Wednesday bomb attack in Damascus, which killed at lea... July 19, 2012 Iranian Terror and Obama’s Misguided Terror Forum Iran and its terror subsidiary, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, appear to be responsible for a... July 18, 2012 Suicide Bomber Kills Syrian Defense Minister, Top Security Officials A suicide bomber killed the top two defense officials and the president's national security advisor, and seriously wounded the interior minister and the chief of the national security office... July 18, 2012 What Condi Says About Romney Will Condi be the Republican VP pick? Since last Thursday, when Matt Drudge floated the possibility that Condoleezza Rice could be joining Mitt Romney’s presidential ticket, that question i... July 18, 2012 The Bulgarian Terror Attack Shows Why We Must Honour the Munich 11 in London Terrorists who attack civilian targets are cowards at the best of times. But killers such as those who blew up a bus carrying Israeli youth in the Bulgarian resort city of Burgas on Wednesday fal... July 17, 2012 Islamism in the Popular Imagination Co-authored by Lauren Morgan The term “Islamist” has been bandied about frequently since revolutionary events gripped the Arab world last year. It is a term meant to... July 17, 2012 US Adds Bahraini Citizen to Terror List for Serving as al Qaeda Trainer The US State Department has added a wanted Bahraini citizen who trains al Qaeda operatives to the list of wanted terrorists. Today the US added Ahmed Abdulrahman Sihab Ahmed Sihab, who i... July 16, 2012 Taliban Suicide Assault Team Strikes Police Station in Bannu The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for today's suicide assault on a police station in the northwestern district of Bannu. A five-man team of "Fedayeen," or "Mart... July 16, 2012 Secretary Clinton and ‘Real Democracy’ in the Middle East “The era of Big Government is over!” I could not get President Bill Clinton’s famous declaration out of my... July 13, 2012 How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions Too often, one man's sanctions become another man's windfall. So it is with Iran sanctions and the minuscule Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, to which Iran's main oil tanker compan... July 13, 2012 Pentagon: Iran Continues to Support Taliban, Oppose US In a report to Congress authored in April, and posted online earlier this week by... July 13, 2012 Another Massacre in Syria, Hundreds Reportedly Dead The Syrian regime has reportedly perpetrated another episode of... July 13, 2012 About that NATO Supply Line Deal … Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist While the Obama administration is busy congratulating itself on the reopening of NATO's supply lines to Afghanistan after a seven-month shutof... July 13, 2012 Jordanian Jihadist Killed in Fighting in Eastern Afghanistan A Jordanian jihadist was killed while battling Coalition and Afghan forces in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, a known stronghold of al Qaeda. A brief statement on the death of Abu... July 12, 2012 Talk to Iran President Obama has long wanted to engage Iran. In his inaugural address, he said he was willing to &ldquo... July 12, 2012 To Topple Assad, Unleash the CIA Does President Barack Obama want Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to fall? He's said he does, but fear of an interventionist slippery slope, re-election concerns, and anxiety about America&#0... July 12, 2012 Wrong Way Down the Danube In January 2011, the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that the 82-year-old philosopher Agnes Heller and four other academics would be investigated for the misuse of n... July 12, 2012 UN Places Iran on Arms-Control Panel As things go in the arms trade, there are not many countries in the world that misbehave more than Iran. The country is under a UN-imposed arms embargo — it cannot buy and it should not sel... July 12, 2012 Bin Laden Loyalist Transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan The Defense Department announced on Wednesday that Ibrahim al Qosi, a Guantanamo detainee who long served deceased al Qa... July 12, 2012 Are Iranian Sanctions Working? Despite all evidence that sanctions are hurting Iran's economy, four rounds of nuclear talks failed to prove that Iran's regime is now more malleable to a compromise. Diplomacy will con... July 11, 2012 Suicide Bomber Kills 20 Police Cadets in Yemeni Capital A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in an attack at a police academy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a. The attack is the latest suicide bombing to target Yemeni security forces.... July 11, 2012 Senior al Qaeda Ideologue Freed in Mauritania Family members of top al Qaeda ideologue Abu Hafs al Mauritani have confirmed that he was freed this past weekend. Abu Hafs was transferred from Iran, where he had lived since late 2001, to Mauri... July 11, 2012 Special Operations Forces Capture 2 IMU Leaders in Afghan North Coailition and Afghan forces captured two leaders of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who were involved in suicide operations during a raid several days ago in the northern Afgh... July 11, 2012 5 ISAF Soldiers Wounded in Latest Green-on-Blue Attack A man dressed as an Afghan soldier wounded five ISAF troops in an attack late yesterday at a base in an area of eastern Afghanistan known to be a Taliban stronghold. The Afghan soldier escaped af... July 11, 2012 US Drones Kill 17 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan Strike The US killed 17 suspected "militants" in a strike in an area of the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan that is known to host la Qaeda's top leaders. The remotely... July 11, 2012 Why the US Could Bomb Iran In late May, at a major security conference in Tel Aviv, former Obama Pentagon official Michelle Flournoy... July 10, 2012 Detained UK Suspect Trained by Shabaab An alleged al Qaeda operative has been detained in London after "crossing through the Olympic Park five times," the Sunday Telegraph (UK)... July 10, 2012 Corruption Within The Palestinian Political Establishment Click here to download testimony (PDF).... July 9, 2012 Pakistani Jihadist Groups Fundraise, Recruit Openly in Rawalpindi During a two-day conference that began yesterday in Rawalpindi, Pakistani jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban openly engaged in fundraising and recruitment of fighters for operatio... July 9, 2012 Iran Pastor Facing Death for Apostasy Iran has scheduled a September court date for evangelical Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, whose incarceration for practicing Christianity reaches the 1,000-day mark on Sunday. In an email to T... July 9, 2012 2 Eritrean Officials Designated for Supporting Shabaab The US Treasury Department designated six supporters of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, on July... July 9, 2012 Jamaat-ud-Dawa Banners Dominate Defense of Pakistan Rally Against Reopening of NATO Supply Lines Banners belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable front group for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, dominate a rally, or "long march," today in Lahore against the reopening of NATO'... July 9, 2012 German Firms Still Ship Dual-Use Goods to Iran Germany’s multi-billion euro bilateral trade relationship with Iran continues unabated, even as evidence mounts that the Islamic Republic is determined to build a nuclear weapons capability... July 9, 2012 How Assad’s Fall Will Lay Ruin to the Alawis’ Once-in-a-Millennium Promised Land A small, marginalized people, kicked around the Middle East for centuries by Muslim empires, finally carves out an independent home for itself on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. But life... July 9, 2012 The Muslim Brotherhood Owns Egypt When the Arab Spring bug caught on in Egypt, in late January 2011, commentators rushed to explain that the Tahrir Square crowd was hip and Western, secular and “facebooked.” Never min... July 9, 2012 Khamenei in Isolation as Revolutionary Guards Threaten Mayhem, Kill Drunks Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hasn’t been seen in public for a couple of weeks, and he notably missed his annual speech at “Pasdar Day,” devoted to the Revolutionary Guards Corps.... July 6, 2012 Laskar-e-Taiba Commander Killed in Recent Airstrike in Kunar The Coalition confirmed that a second leader of the Pakistan-based, al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba died in a recent airstrike in Kunar that also killed the terror group's leader for the eas... July 6, 2012 ‘Most Iranians Would Give Up Nuke Program’ Iran’s state television news published an online poll Tuesday in which 63 percent of respondents would abandon Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanc... July 6, 2012 Al Qaeda Fighters Moving From Iraq to Syria: Report Hoshiyar Zebari, Iraq's Foreign Minister, went on the record to say that some members of al Qaeda in Iraq are moving into Syria to wage jihad.... July 6, 2012 Strategic Geography and the End of Assad The latest military developments in Syria are now generally understood as ushering in a new phase in the Syrian conflict. What’s less observed is that the minority Alawite regime’s ma... July 5, 2012 Pariah State: Examining Sudan’s Support for Terrorism ***This article originally appeared in "State Sponsorship of Terrorism", a publication of IHS Defense, Risk and Security Consulting, in June 2012. Reproduced with permission © IHS (Global... July 5, 2012 New York Times v. Adelson The New York Times’ editorial writers — who reflect the opinions of the newspaper’s publisher and principal owner, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger J... July 5, 2012 Will Energy Sanctions Stop Iran’s Nuke Program? The European Union on Sunday implemented tough new energy sanctions, denying Iranian crude oil imports to EU markets. There is, however, a growing consensus that the US and its allies need to fur...

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