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June 25, 2012 Zarqawi’s Nephew Killed in Yemen Drone Strike A Jordanian member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was the nephew of former al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed in a drone strike earlier this year, according to a ma... June 25, 2012 Taliban Behead 7 Pakistani Soldiers: Report The Taliban claimed to have killed 17 Pakistani soldiers in an attack in the northern district of Upper Dir yesterday. Seven of the soldiers are reported to have been beheaded. Pakistani... June 25, 2012 Islamist’s Win in Egypt Leaves US Uncertain Egyptians celebrated Sunday the election of their country's first freely elected president - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who becomes the first Islamist head of state of the Ara... June 25, 2012 A New Egypt, But Is It An Improvement? The Post reports: “Egypt’s electoral... June 22, 2012 Afghan Soldiers Retake Kabul Hotel After Taliban Assault Afghan forces stormed a lakeside hotel in Kabul to retake it from a Taliban suicide assault team that was holding dozens of civilians hostage. The Taliban claimed credit for the attack, calling t... June 22, 2012 Member of Al Qaeda-Allied Organization Visits Washington Writing at the Daily Beast, Eli Lake has the scoop o... June 22, 2012 ‘Escape From Camp 14′: A Shocking Exposé of North Korea’s ‘Hidden Gulag’ For six decades running, the North Korean gulag system has comprised one of the greatest crimes against humanity known to history. Yet it remains an obscurity. There is no such thing as a North K... June 22, 2012 Assessing the State of Islamophobia in Canada As noted previously on this blog, last Satu... June 22, 2012 Beijing’s Oil Imports From Iran Rebound China's oil imports from Iran continued to sharply rebound in May to nearly match 2011 levels following a steep drop-off earlier this year, figures showed Thursday, a day after Secretary of... June 22, 2012 Dollar Power AMERICA’S chokehold on Iran’s oil trade is tightening. New sanctions that come into force on June 28th attempt to turn off Iran’s $95 billion-a-year oil trade, and stop the flow... June 22, 2012 Threats From Cyber to Terror Supplant Cold War’s Dangers The U.S. is searching for ways to deter, defend against and respond to ever-increasing cyber attacks and more diverse terrorist threats, even as it tries to cut spending and finance weapons conce... June 22, 2012 Congress Tries to Lead on Iran; Obama Clings to Failed Diplomacy The Obama administration won’t take no for an answer. The Iran talks yielded no progress again this week, and yet the Obama administration... June 21, 2012 Pakistan’s New Al Qaeda Detainee and Iran Pakistani officials have reportedly captured Naamen Meziche, an al Qaeda operative with an extensive dossier. Meziche plays a significant role in an article (“... June 21, 2012 The Trouble with Multiculturalism Back in the day, when I was a newspaper columnist in Denver, representatives of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League paid a visit. Over coffee, they told the opinion ed... June 21, 2012 Iran Faces Fresh US Sanctions Push The US Congress is considering imposing tougher sanctions on Iran after the latest round of diplomatic talks over Iran’s nuclear programme ended in Moscow without substantive progress.... June 20, 2012 Germany Starts to Clamp Down on Salafists BERLIN, Germany - Last week the German interior ministry stepped up its efforts against a growing Salafist network in the Federal Republic, stating that "[t]he organization acts in opposition to... June 20, 2012 The Long, Hard, Surreal Struggle for Women’s Rights in Pakistan On Saturday night, I appeared as a panelist at the “Message of Peace: Countering Islamophobia&rd... June 20, 2012 Al Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Attack in Israel A jihadist organization calling itself the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) has claimed responsibility for yesterday's cross border attack in Israel, according to... June 20, 2012 Pakistan Detains al Qaeda Operative Tied to Multiple Plots An al Qaeda operative connected to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and a Mumbai-style plot against Europe has been reportedly detained in Pakistan. The operative, a French-Algerian named Naa... June 20, 2012 Time to End Empty Negotiations with Iran? The latest round of negotiations to end Iran’s illicit nuclear activities have, not surprisingly, come and gone without an agreement. &ldqu... June 19, 2012 Compromise is Inevitable in Egypt Egypt’s historic presidential election will not settle the future of the country in one fell swoop, but it traces the contours of a new regime in which the key political actors may ultimate... June 19, 2012 Drachmail and the New Democrats For the past few weeks, the gloomy words of the Rolling Stones's 1973 hit "Angie," German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2005 campaign song, served as a metaphor for her country&#039... June 19, 2012 Hiding Cuba’s Crimes Behind Gay Rights Lies On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys... June 19, 2012 The Pristina-Damascus Connection PRISTINA | A few weeks ago, three Syrian opposition activists arrived in this small Balkan capital for a short visit. The trio stayed in a hotel downtown – “nothing fancy,” acco... June 19, 2012 Iran Talks Fail, Of Course The Times of Israel reports: “Iran became more adamant Monday that the world must remove the sancti... June 18, 2012 ISAF Kills IMU, al Qaeda-Linked Taliban Commanders in Airstrikes Coalition forces killed several al Qaeda-linked Taliban leaders and an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander during airstrikes in two eastern Afghan provinces over the past two days.... June 18, 2012 A Little Egyptology In Egypt over the weekend there was an election, more or less. And a coup — sort of. At least that’s what I took away from a discussion we had here at the... June 18, 2012 Clinton: We Need a Stable, Sovereign Lebanon WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made calls to Lebanese leaders in recent days to emphasize the American commitment to stability as upheaval in Syria threatens its nei... June 18, 2012 Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Nervous Atmosphere MOSCOW (Reuters) - World powers will seek to avert a collapse of diplomacy over Iran's nuclear programme at talks starting in Moscow on Monday, hoping to win concessions from Tehran and fore... June 18, 2012 Oil Market Shrugs At Imminent Iran Tanker Insurance Ban (Reuters) - In less than two weeks, Iran's biggest oil buyers will lose access to the London-based insurance market that protects 95 percent of the world's tanker shipments against oil... June 18, 2012 Two Villages, Two Egyptian Views SHARQIYYA GOVERNORATE, Egypt—Only nine miles of rutted pavement separates the villages of Mubasher and Edwa, but the ideological division they represent has nearly split Egyptian politics i... June 16, 2012 Iran Talks Resemble Mood Swings of a Manic Depressive In recent weeks, public discussion about ongoing negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — has experienced the same... June 16, 2012 Stay Out of Syria Like all long-suffering fans of the New York Mets, I am on Cloud Nine courtesy of Johan Santana, whose recent no-hitter — in the team’s 8,020th game, during... June 15, 2012 Defensive Propaganda Of all the uprisings of the “Arab Spring,” the Syrian revolt has been the one arena where pro-regime information warfare has been a central element in the ongoing conflict. While the... June 14, 2012 Obama’s Classified Leaks Are Probably Not Prosecutable In my post over the weekend about the folly of pushing for a special prosecutor on t... June 14, 2012 Why We Should Use JLENS Wars of the future will be very different from wars of the past. Everyone gets that. What many do not grasp: The present war also is very different from wars of the past... June 14, 2012 Abu Zubaydah and Iran At the Washington Free Beacon, Bill Gertz has a piece about Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA’s Counte... June 14, 2012 US Drones Strike in Miramshah’s Bazaar, Kill 3 Militants US drones struck for the second time in 24 hours in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Today's strike, which took place in the early morning, targ... June 13, 2012 US Drone Strike Kills 9 AQAP Fighters in Yemen The US launched an airstrike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters who have fled the two major strongholds in southern Yemen. The unmanned Predators or Reapers fired missile... June 13, 2012 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Cracks Down on Christians As the U.S. and its allies prepare to return to the negotiating table with Iranian representatives, hoping to reach a deal on their nuclear ambitions, the Islamic Republic has significantly ratch... June 12, 2012 Did the US-Turkey Alliance Toss Israel Under the Bus? Last week in Istanbul, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted the first U.S.-sponsored Global Counterterrorism Forum. The event brought representatives... June 12, 2012 Panetta on Pakistan During a trip to Afghanistan last week, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta chastised Pakistan for its ongoing support for the Haqqani Network – an insurgency organization that is closely tie... June 12, 2012 Saudi Clerics Funnel Cash to Syrian Rebels Through Terror Group Since President Obama decided not to support the rebels fighting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a handful of Saudi religious figures have taken matters into their own hands. After the... June 12, 2012 Iran Steps Up Crackdown on Christians BERLIN – Iran stepped up its crackdown on the country struggling Christian community by closing a church in Tehran, prompting an Iranian human rights group and religious freedom experts to... June 11, 2012 Omar Khadr Doesn’t Deserve a Dime The UN Committee Against Torture recently recommended that Omar Khadr receive redress for any human ri... June 11, 2012 Study Shows Saudi Ambivalence on Radicalism On May 27, an airstrike by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northeastern Afghanistan killed Sakhr al Taifi, a Saudi citizen and al Qaeda's deputy commander for Afghanist... June 11, 2012 Egypt’s Future Uncertain as Mubarak’s Health Worsens With Egypt soon to head into the final round of its first presidential elections, deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak looks to be on his last legs. Though a court recently sentenced him to life in pri... June 11, 2012 Leaker-in-Chief The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the White House’s handling of classified information. The spur seems to have been the June 1 New York Times article by Dav... June 11, 2012 Iran, Voice of the UN’s ‘Committee on Information’ It’s quite perverse enough that the United Nations would have a so-called Committee on Information whose members include such c... June 11, 2012 Leaks and Lies I once had a long discussion about leaks with Richard Helms, a thoughtful gentleman who steadfastly refused to reveal state secrets even when threatened with imprisonment. Helms was directo...

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