An al Qaeda operative who was close to slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi has been released from Iranian custody and has recently returned to Afghanistan to fight NATO and Afghan...
A classified document used by military and intelligence officials in the determination of a Guantanamo detainee's linkages to al Qaeda and associated movements lists the intelligence service...
Nowhere has the Obama administration been more reluctant to embrace the revolutions sweeping through the Middle East than in Yemen. This is, in part, understandable. According to t...
In a campaign speech on July 14, 2007, Senator Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and President Bush’s obstinate refusal to end it. “We cannot win a war against the terrorists i...
There have been pro-flotilla rallies throughout the Muslim world and some of them have been attended by especially notorious figures. Consider the rallies in Yemen. On June 1, thousands gathered...
Iraqi and US forces have hit al Qaeda in Iraq hard over the last several months, crippling the terror group's senior leadership and disrupting its communications with al Qaeda's top lea...
Al Qaeda in Iraq appointed a new 'war minister' for its Islamic State after the group's top two leaders were killed by Iraqi and US forces one month ago. Al Qaeda in Iraq...
Iraqi security forces backed by US advisers have captured the head of the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam. Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the leader of Ansar al Islam, or Partisans of Islam, was...
Yesterday, Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) adjunct fellow Bill Roggio posted an...
Map of Diyala province [PDF]. Click to view. The long awaited offensive to secure Diyala province has begun. Iraqi Army and police forces, backed by the US Army, officially started...
The investigation of the latest terror plot to target the United Kingdom is very fluid. Right now, the headlines are these: There have been at least three attempted car-bomb attacks, the perpetra...
SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and govern...
There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber. This insight seems to have eluded the Central Intelligence Agency. A few days ago a classified CIA report was leaked to the...
Is the United States a superpower? For years, we've assumed this was true. It was an easy assumption to make based on the amount of money we spend on our military and the high-tech...
By: Andrew Apostolou. In recent days, the Wall Street Journal and Slate have charged that the U.S. government fumbled an opportunity to kill master terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqaw...
We often tend to reject the message simply because of who the messenger is — especially if the messenger can't seem to keep his story straight from one day to the next. But it would be...
Christians slaughtered by terrorists in Beslan, Russia. Nepalese Hindus butchered by terrorists in Iraq. Jews suicide-bombed in Beersheba, Israel. As we approach the third annivers...
Authored by Andrew Apostolou One of the key findings of the 9/11 Commission is that al Qaeda was a terrorism innovator. Al Qaeda's "new terrorism," as the commission calls...
Authored by Andrew Apostolou The well-researched initial findings of the 9/11 commission have been predictably misconstrued. The most common distortion is that the 9/11 comm...
The brutal beheading of American Nick Berg in Iraq should refocus our attention on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism. While some continue to claim that Hussein did not back terror, many be...