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December 3, 2012 Exhuming Yasser Arafat Khaled Mashal is known to the world as the leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. What is less well known is that Israel once saved the man’s life — after trying to kill him... December 3, 2012 The Quality of Morsi Egypt’s political crisis seems to be testing the conviction, long held in certain Western circles, that actually having to govern a modern nation-state will moderate Islamists. The countera... December 3, 2012 The PLO’s U.N. Fiasco Shows U.S. Weakness The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to upgrade the Palestine Liberation Organization&rs... December 3, 2012 Georgian Dream Shows Its Dark Side When Georgian President Mikheil Saakasvhili conceded defeat in parliamentary elections last m... December 2, 2012 Taliban Suicide Assault Team Attacks US Airbase in Jalalabad A Taliban suicide assault team attacked Forward Operating Base Fenty, a large airbase in Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, early this morning. The heavily armed Taliban assault team of a... November 29, 2012 Hamas Won? A week after the ceasefire concluding Israel’s eight day campaign against Hamas, Operation Pillar of Defense, there is some debate as to who came out on top. The way one judges the outcome... November 29, 2012 Will Egyptians Put an End to Morsi’s Power Grab? Last week, Egypt’s elected president Mohamed Morsi gave himself more power than even deposed president Hosni Mubarak had under decades of military dictatorship. Morsi, a form... November 29, 2012 Hamas’ Escalation Calculation Hamas’ decision to escalate rocket attacks on Israel leading up to the latest conflagration was deliberate. One question remains largely unanswered: What was Hamas’ calculation behind... November 29, 2012 Communications Blackout in Syria Two technology firms that monitor global Internet traffic report that Syria has been cut off from the Inte... November 29, 2012 US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in 1st Strike in Pakistan in More Than a Month The US killed three "militants," including "foreigners," in the first drone strike recorded in Pakistan in more than a month. The remotely piloted Predators or the more heavily armed Rea... November 28, 2012 Ansar al Sharia Egypt Founder ‘Honored to be an Extension of al Qaeda’ In an interview with the Cairo-based publication Al Shuruq al Jadid in late October, Ahmed Ashush, the fo... November 28, 2012 Did Israel Defeat Hamas? The end of Israel’s eighth war of self-defense last week prompted charged debates over the efficacy of Israel’s military operation. In short, what... November 28, 2012 Why US-Israel Ties Just Got Warmer The latest round in an endless cycle of violence between Israel and Gaza has culminated in a surprising win for the US- Israel relationship: an apparent renewal of vows between President Obama an... November 28, 2012 Understanding the IAEA’s Mandate in Iran: Avoiding Misinterpretations Co-authored by Olli Heinonen and David Albright Download the report here. Much attentio... November 28, 2012 Turks, Arabs and Jews: The Middle East in Crisis Standing outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque on a Friday morning as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer, curious tourists furtively peek through the windows in the hope of catching... November 28, 2012 ‘We Feel Safe Here’ Pastor Umar Mulinde’s love for Israel has only grown since he began treatment here for the burns he sustained in a horrific acid attack in his home country of Uganda on Christmas Eve last y... November 28, 2012 Sanctions On Iran: How Washington Can End The Game Of ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Since the European Union announced a new round of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program last October, it has enacted new measures and an imp... November 28, 2012 The Battle of Gaza There was no uncertainty about who won the battle for Constantinople in 1453 (the Ottoman Caliphate), or who lost the battle for Vienna in 1529 (the Ottoman Caliphate).... November 27, 2012 ISAF Analysis Shows Afghan Violence Remains Worse Than Before Surge During a speech at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC last week, Secretary of Defense Leon... November 27, 2012 Vienna Protesters Call for ‘Death to Jews’ Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered on Friday in the heart of Vienna, protesting Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense and chanting slogans calling for the murder of Jews and bashing the Jewi... November 27, 2012 Why Tom Ricks’s Fox Appearance Was Less Impressive Than You Think You’ve probably already seen Tom Ricks’s Fox News appearance... November 26, 2012 A Palestinian Flanking Maneuver This week, the Palestinian faction that has been fighting Israel with rockets will likely yield to the one fighting it with lawyers at the United Nations. In the wake of Israel's op... November 26, 2012 EU Ignores Most of Hezbollah Terror in Ban Decision The 27-member European Union has largely circled the wagons around the investigation into Hezbollah’s role in the July... November 26, 2012 France Slated to Open First Gay Mosque Muhammad Ludovic Lütfi Zahed, a gay French-Algerian man, is slated to open the first gay mosque at the end of November. The Turkish daily newspaper... November 26, 2012 Iran: Nuclear Moment of Truth Nears In September, when Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, famously showed the United Nations General Assembly a crude picture of a bomb to highlight Iran’s proximity to nuclear... November 26, 2012 Another IMU ‘Weapons Facilitator’ Captured in Northern Afghanistan Afghan and Coalition forces captured a "weapons facilitator" from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during an operation in Kwajah district in Afghanistan's Takhar province y... November 26, 2012 Taliban, Tribal Leaders Work Together in North Waziristan This article in Dawn highlights the close links between the local tribes in North... November 26, 2012 Boko Haram Suicide Bombs Kill 11 at Nigerian Military Church Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist terror group that has been linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Shabaab, killed 11 people in an attack today on a church at a military base in Kaduna. T... November 26, 2012 Tawhid and Jihad Official Praises Fellow Gazan Jihadists and Calls for Unity By David Barnett On Nov. 21, an audio speech from Abdullah Jihad al Ashqar (Abu al Muhtasib al Maqdisi), a media official for Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem, was released t... November 26, 2012 Al Nusrah Front Claims Suicide Attack at Hospital, Joint Operation with Chechen Fighters The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for yet another suicide attack as w... November 26, 2012 Taliban Claim Attacks Against Shia Worshipers in Pakistan The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for a suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed 12 people... November 26, 2012 Syrian Jihadist Groups Reject Rebel Council, Call for Islamic State Fourteen jihadist groups based in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a hub of fighting during the nearly two-year old rebellion against the regime of President Bashir al Assad, have banded together to re... November 26, 2012 US Adds Pakistani Hawala, 2 Taliban Financiers to Terrorism List The US Treasury Department added a Pakistani hawala, or money exchange, and two of its owners, to the lists of global terrorists and entities. Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, and it... November 23, 2012 How Gaza Changes the Game Seven days ago, Israel embarked on Operation Pillar of Defense, the second time it’s gone to war against Hamas in the past four years. The proximate cause of this campaign, according to Isr... November 23, 2012 Letters of Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Security Council Now that Israel is fighting back against the rocket-launching Iranian-backed terrorists of Gaza, the United Nations has swung into a frenzy of activity, calling for immediate measures to stop the... November 23, 2012 Ground to a Halt It’s been twenty months since the Syrian people rose up against the regime of Bashar Assad. During this time, large swathes of land in northwestern Syria have fallen out of government contr... November 23, 2012 Winners And Losers A ceasefire was announced between Isra... November 23, 2012 China’s Iran Oil Imports Drop Further China's imports of Iranian crude oil are down by about one-fifth so far this year, a drop that puts the country in good position to avoid U.S. sanctions and head off a diplomatic row with Wa... November 23, 2012 A Sudan Surprise Sudan has played a key role in arming Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets, experts said. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) principal objective in Gaza is to rid... November 22, 2012 What If Iran Had Had Nukes? Israel — as its friends and enemies never forget — is a “one-bomb country.” One nuclear weapon is all it would take to wipe out a nation whose te... November 21, 2012 From al Qaeda in Italy to Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Two convicted members of an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Italy are now senior members of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia. The pair, Sami Ben Khemais Essid and Mehdi Kammoun, were arrested in 20... November 21, 2012 Hamas Rockets Shower on Southern Israel Sderot, Israel — The radical Islamic organization Hamas continued throughout today, Tuesday, with its barrage of rockets into Israel. The number of Hamas missiles fired today... November 21, 2012 Israel’s Just War This is the third time the world has seen this tragedy performed. Act I was in 2006, during Israel’s Lebanon War with Hezbollah. Act II played out in 2008 and early 2009, with the first Gaz... November 21, 2012 The Myth of a ‘Pragmatic’ Hamas The ongoing conflagration in the Gaza Strip makes one wonder if some have forgotten the very basics of the English language. Whether or not a ceasefire is reached between the two parties... November 21, 2012 Intervention in Syria In the run up to the elections, America’s Middle East allies were convinced that President Obama was too consumed with domestic politics to pursue a more muscular approach to Syria. O... November 20, 2012 Israeli Conflict with Hamas Brings Grim Reality of Terror Home TEL AVIV — The explosion rang out high above the office where I was working. On a Saturday morning when most of the world was resting, or waking up to coffee and cartoons, Is... November 20, 2012 Ansar al Sharia Egypt Releases Founding Statement Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translatio... November 20, 2012 The U.N. Tilt to Terrorists Nowhere in the charter of the United Nations is there any mandate for the U.N. to stack the deck in favor of terrorists. Yet that is exactly the effect of the current U.... November 20, 2012 How Israel’s Iron Dome Won the War Egypt, the United States, the UN and various other international actors have been pushing hard for a... November 20, 2012 Clinton in the Mideast, Facing a War with No Decisive Victories Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has...

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