Afghan Arabs

Assessing Terrorism in the Caucasus and the Threat to the Homeland

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Spinning Al-Qaeda

Since June 2012, Peter Bergen, the swashbuckling reporter who serves as CNN’s national-security analyst and a director of the liberal New America Foundation, has been among those in the for...

Questions They Won’t Answer

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes When South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham threatened last week to place a hold in the Senate on all Obama administration nominations until the p...

The CIA and Al-Qaeda

In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...

Iraq’s Jihad Myths

Among Democrats and even many Republicans, it is by now accepted wisdom that the war in Iraq brought huge numbers of holy warriors to the anti-American cause. But is it true? I don't think s...

Don’t Get Cocky, America

Osama bin Laden's death is a significant blow for al Qaeda, removing a figurehead who had evaded the largest manhunt in world history for almost a decade, and who seemingly managed to remain...

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Training Libyan Rebels in Derna

A former Guantanamo detainee who spent nearly six years in detention at Cuba is training Libyan rebels in the city of Derna, according to The Wall Street Journal's Charles Levinson....

Reflections on Osama bin Laden, and his Continuing Relevance

Earlier today, I did a rather lengthy written interview with a journalist from an online Romanian newspaper. In light of the new tapes Osama bin Laden released last month, he put a number of ques...

Yemen Arrests Ex-Gitmo Detainee who Fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir

A former Guantanamo detainee who joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) after graduating from a Saudi rehabilitation program has been arrested in Yemen. Fox News reported Tuesday that Ye...

Libya Frees Ex-Gitmo Detainee

The Libyan government has released dozens of Islamist extremists and terrorists in recent days as part of an effort to reconcile with its opposition. The initiative is being led by Saif al Islam...

Jihad’s New Leaders

The recent deaths of prominent Al-Qaeda terrorists such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq and Abu Hafs al-Urdani in Daghestan, as well as a host of less publicized kills and captures, have hastened...

REM: Islamist Terrorist Regime in Khartoum

In those now seemingly far-off days before the ubiquitous worldwide web, for the technologically savvy REM did not mean "rich-media email marketing." Rather REM was short for "remarks" and was us...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi