AGM-114 Hellfire

July 12, 2024 | |

U.S. Resumes Shipment of Bombs to Israel

The United States will resume shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel, a U.S. official said on July 10. The official explained that the delivery of 1,700 MK-82 500-pound bombs for...

June 14, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

U.S. reportedly targets 2 senior al Qaeda figures in airstrike in Syria

Two al Qaeda leaders were reportedly killed in a drone strike in Syria’s Idlib province earlier today, according to jihadists on social media. Pictures of the car carrying them were posted on Telegram...

March 5, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Cleo Paskal, Maj. Liane “Trixie” Zivitski

US-India helicopter deal deepens vital partnership

Due to American and Indian negotiators’ failure to reach a trade agreement, some media reports panned President Donald Trump’s visit last week to India as more show than substance. Yet a closer look...

July 7, 2015 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

The Sixth Annex

Increasingly and publicly, the White House is recognizing Iranian zones of influence in the Levant as legitimate

January 5, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Somali Government Reports Shabaab’s Intel Chief Killed in US Airstrike

Note: this article was updated on Dec. 31 to include the US confirmation of Tahlil Abdishakur's death. Somalia's National Security Agency said that the US killed the l...

October 9, 2012 |

Obama’s Foreign Policy Narrative Unravels

The failure to tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi is a stain on the President's record Read more: http://www.nydail

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

October 6, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Anwar Al-Awlaki’s American Journey

He was born in a land of freedom, tolerance and opportunity. He wanted none of it.

May 16, 2011 |

Bin Laden, No More

Bin Laden’s death at the hands of a small team of American ninjas deep in Pakistan sends the world — especially our enemies — a powerful and much-needed reminder of some essenti...

March 2, 2010 | Jonathan Schanzer

$150 Million for Yemeni ‘Encouragement’

''Yemen's willingness... to confront the serious threat al Qaeda poses to the nation's stability has been inconsistent in the past, but our recent intensive engagement appears...