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August 27, 2012 Afghan Soldier Kills Two ISAF Troops in East An Afghan soldier opened fire on Coalition soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, killing two of them before being killed himself in return fire. The attack is the latest in a string of so-called green... August 27, 2012 An Apology for Hamas The cover of Paola Caridi’s new book, Hamas: From Resistance to Government, should have served as a warning. If the title didn’t sugge... August 27, 2012 Where Should Ahmadinejad Bunk Down in New York? Plaudits to the watchdog group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which is again tackling the mission of persuading New York City hotels to spurn Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and h... August 26, 2012 Badruddin Haqqani ‘Is Alive and Healthy,’ Taliban Spokesman Says A top spokesman for the Afghan Taliban denied reports that senior Haqqani Network leader Badruddin Haqqani was killed several days ago in a drone strike in North Waziristan. "A number of... August 24, 2012 A Perverse Quid Pro Quo "Proud to be Goyim," read the man's appropriately brown T-shirt, "Goyim" written in Hebraic-style English letters. "100% Unkosher." This was my welcome to a rally two weeks ago for... August 24, 2012 Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data Data last updated on Oct. 16, 2012 I. Introduction II. Data Summary... August 24, 2012 Bitter Harvest: China’s ‘Organ Donation’ Nightmare When Wang Lijun made his break for the US consulate in Chengdu on the night of February 6th, he was in a unique position to reveal a series of damaging stories about... August 24, 2012 Mocking Justice in Norway: The Breivik Trial Targets Contrarian Intellectuals “Wow.” This is the only word Tonje Brenna heard Anders Behring Breivik utter as he methodically killed sixty-nine of her fellow Norwegian Labor Party acti... August 24, 2012 Suicide Bombings Become Commonplace in Syria For years, Bashar al Assad's regime sponsored the flow of suicide bombers and foreign fighters into Iraq... August 23, 2012 Hamas’s Corruption The regional standing of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction born in 1987 as a Muslim Brotherhood splinter group, has undoubtedly been buoyed by the meteoric rise of Egypt’s Muslim Brot... August 23, 2012 Iranians Incite Genocide; Israelis ‘Employ Invective’ Iran or Israel: Which is more deserving of censure? On the one hand, as the French news agency Agence France-Presse... August 23, 2012 It’s Not About Israel, Stupid — It’s About Us When is the last time any of the four candidates visited Walter Reed Medical Center in suburban Washington? If they did it in recent months, I haven’t seen any press coverage of it. W... August 23, 2012 Wake Up Call for Swedish Social Democrats: Julian Assange is Friendly with Dictators! This is what you get from reading Karin Olsson's impassioned defense of her country&#... August 22, 2012 Al Qaeda Releases Biography of Slain Senior Leader The 21st, and latest, online edition of al Qaeda's "Vanguards of Khorasan" magazine contains a biography of slain al Qaeda leader Atiyah Abd al Rahman. According to a translation provided by... August 22, 2012 Iran Targeted Israeli Embassy in Washington In the fall of 2011, the Obama administration revealed that American officials had discovered an... August 22, 2012 Why Romney Won’t Strike Iran Republican foreign-policy circles have hailed Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running-mate, noting that he believes in free trade, a strong defense, and is th... August 21, 2012 ‘Diplomacy Has Run Its Course’ The intentions of Iran's rulers could not be clearer. They have repeatedly threatened and incited genocide. Most recently, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel "a cancerous tu... August 21, 2012 Why Crunch Time is Coming for Israel and Iran In recent months, expectations of a coming Israeli pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear installations have become increasingly hyped in the media and the public domain. There is now a w... August 21, 2012 The Mideast’s Vanishing Christians Times are tough for Christian communities across the Middle East. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was putting it lightly when she said that Coptic Christians &ld... August 21, 2012 Al Qaeda in Iraq Video Details Deadly Raid in Haditha Co-authored by Bill Ardolino Click here to watch the video. Warning: the video... August 21, 2012 ISAF Kills, Captures al Qaeda-Linked Taliban Commanders in East Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander in Ghazni and killed another in Kunar during raids over the past 24 hours. Both commanders were target... August 21, 2012 Obama’s ‘Alert Observation’ of Anti-Christian Violence Must End As Nina Shea discussed below, Pakistani authorities have incarcerated a... August 21, 2012 Shabaab Leaders Divided? Not Quite Has a rift developed between Shabaab's top leaders over the group's decision to formally join al Qaeda, in the face of pressures from the Somali, Ethiopian, and African Union offensive... August 20, 2012 FDD Releases Groundbreaking Volume on Terrorist Groups in Canada Washington, DC (FDD, August 20, 2012) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Press has released a groundbreaking volume on terrorist groups operating in Can... August 20, 2012 Al Qaeda-Linked Taliban Commander Killed in Recent Airstrike in Kunar The Coalition confirmed that an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander who was responsible for a recent suicide attack that killed three US soldiers and a USAID officer in Kunar was himself killed thr... August 20, 2012 US Congresswoman Calls on EU to Ban Hezbollah The chairwoman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros- Lehtinen (R-Florida), sent a letter – ahead of the annual Al-Qods Day marches in Europe on Saturday – to Jos... August 20, 2012 House Foreign Affairs Chair Calls on EU to Ban Hezbollah On the eve of al Quds day, when supporters of the Iranian-led resistance bloc plan to march throughout European cities, U.S. representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida), chairwoman of the Hous... August 20, 2012 Tunisia Honors Convicted Murderer Samir Kuntar The city of Bizerte in Tunisia last week honored convicted murderer Samir Kuntar, who carried out a brutal 1979 attack in Nahariya that killed Israeli policeman Eliyahu Shahar, and Danny Haran an... August 20, 2012 Assad’s Ally Arrested In Beirut last week, former Lebanese MP and cabinet member Michel Sa... August 20, 2012 Is Obama Serious About Isolating Iran? Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivered a speech on Friday — the close of the holy month of Ramadan and the celebration of international... August 20, 2012 Mullah Omar Addresses Green-On-Blue Attacks In this year's Eid al Fitr message to the Afghan people, Taliban supremo Mullah Omar addressed the issues of the green-on-blue attacks (Afghan forces attacking ISAF troops) and the infiltrat... August 20, 2012 AQAP Rebuilding in Jaar? Measuring the progress of the Yemeni government's fight against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is difficult to do via press accounts. We get snippets of data here and there. One of... August 17, 2012 The Al Qaeda Factor, and the Fate of a Jihadi Group The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West by Mitchell D. Silber. One reason terrorism watchers have often been wrong about some of the critical... August 16, 2012 Obama’s Future ‘Flexibility’ National security and foreign policy have received short shrift in the 2012 presidential-election campaign. Mitt Romney made a quick swing through Britain, Israel, and P... August 16, 2012 Obama’s Future ‘Flexibility’ National security and foreign policy have received short shrift in the 2012 presidential-election campaign. Mitt Romney made a quick swing through Britain, Israel, and P... August 16, 2012 What Egypt’s President Is Up To Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s housecleaning over the last two weeks—dismissing... August 16, 2012 Is Israel Really Preparing for an Attack on Iran? The question of whether Israel is on the brink of a strike against Iran periodically resurfaces as the Persian country’s march to a nuclear weapon continues unabated and Israeli leaders ind... August 16, 2012 Iranian Islands of Influence At a Pentagon news conference on Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Iran is building and training a militia to buttress the Assad regime in Syria. As the S... August 16, 2012 Al Qaeda Still in Afghanistan The presidential candidates should listen to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta when he reminds us that t... August 15, 2012 Engaging Fundamentalists Given the growing strength and electoral triumphs of fundamentalists in the Middle East, many in Washington fear that the administration just can’t handle Islamists. Egypt’s Muslim Br... August 15, 2012 The Rise of a ‘German Salafist Colony’ in Egypt BERLIN -- Earlier this year, the Austrian-born Islamist and al Qaeda supporter Muhammad Mahmoud fled Germany for Egypt, where he has launched an organizational structure to develop a base of Germ... August 15, 2012 The Israel/Iran War Game Will they (the Israelis) or won’t they? And if so, when? I know the answers, but you’re not going to like them. The answers are all the same: we don’t... August 15, 2012 The Israeli-American Divide Last weekend, in the most dramatic shakeup of Egypt’s political system since Hosni Mubarak was toppled from his presidency, President Muhammad Morsi sacked Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein... August 15, 2012 ‘Brigades of Osama bin Laden’ Forms in the West Bank A new jihadist group calling itself the Brigades of Osama bin Laden has announced its formation, in a statement that was recently released on terrorist-linked web forums. The Brigades of... August 15, 2012 Pakistan Will Launch Operation Against the Taliban, Panetta Claims This is absolutely stunning. Yesterday, The Associated Press interviewed US Secretary of Defense L... August 14, 2012 Omani Jihadist Participated in Haqqani Network Raid on FOB Salerno Co-authored by Bill Ardolino A jihadist from Oman was killed during the Haqqani Network suicide assault on a major US base in eastern Afghanistan in June, according to a martyrd... August 14, 2012 Free-Speech Hypocrisy in Europe There are few people in the world who have sacrificed more for the principle of free speech than the staff of Jyllands Posten, the most popular newspaper in Denmark. Since the paper publ... August 14, 2012 Groups Demand Halt of Berlin Anti-Israel March The daily (B.Z.) Berliner Zeitung's‘s popular columnist Gunnar Schupelius has called on the Berlin authorities to ban a pro-Iranian regime demon... August 14, 2012 Taliban Suicide Assault Team Kills 36 Afghans in Western City A Taliban suicide assault team fanned out across the western city of Zaranj today, killing 36 Afghans in several attacks before being gunned down by Afghan forces. A suicide assault team... August 13, 2012 So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster There's been a whole lot of head-scratching since it emerged -- smack in the middle of the London Olympics -- that Standard Chartered, one of the crown jewels of the British financial indust...

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