New Docs Reveal Osama bin Laden’s Secret Ties With Iran
This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect. The U.S. government accuse...
Ansar al-Sharia
Libyan Ansar al-Sharia Leader Gets Medical Treatment in Turkey
Ansar al-Sharia Libya confirmed this weekend that its leader, Mohamed al-Zahawi, had passed away from wounds sustained last year. Ansar al-Sharia is a jihadist group best-known outside of Libya f...
Policy Briefs
Ansar al Sharia Libya Showcases Spoils of War, Key Personalities in Video
Ansar al Sharia, an al Qaeda-linked group in Libya, has released a six-minute-long video showing its spoils won during a recent battle against forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar. The group cl...
Op-eds
The Benghazi Report
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t...
Op-eds
What Happened to the ‘Sensitive Information’ Stolen in Benghazi?
The Justice Department has released a new, superseding indictment in the government’s case against Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the only suspect held by th...
Op-eds
Libya’s Islamist Counteroffensive
Co-authored by Nathaniel Barr Through much of June and the first half of July, fighting between the forces of rogue General Khalifa Hifter and Benghazi’s Islamist militias...
Op-eds
Ansar al Sharia Ally A Key Figure in Benghazi Security Failures
A key figure in the security failures surrounding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya is fighting alongside members of Ansar al Sharia, which is one of the terrori...
Op-eds
Libya: Hifter’s Stalled Anti-Islamist Campaign
Co-authored by Nathaniel Barr Operation Dignity, General Khalifa Hifter&rs...
Op-eds
Operation Dignity: New Fighting Grips Libya
Co-Authored by Nathaniel Barr Former Libyan army general Khalifa Hifter l...
Policy Briefs
Al Qaeda’s Nigeria Franchise
When Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for the more than 200 Nigerian girls held by the extremist group Boko Haram, she probably did not expect that her tenure as secretary of state would soon...
Op-eds
A Road Map To Get To The Bottom Of Benghazi
CNN President Jeff Zucker says his network may not bother to report on the House...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda In Afghanistan And Pakistan: An Enduring Threat
Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the enduring threat posed by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is wide...
Legislative Testimonies
Al Qaeda In Afghanistan And Pakistan: An Enduring Threat
Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the enduring threat posed by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is wide...
Op-eds
An Escalation in Tunisia: How the State Went to War with Ansar al-Sharia
Co-authored by Bridget Moreng Since the fall of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, the country has been challenged by the aggressive growth of a dom...
Op-eds
The Arab Spring and Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence
Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, distinguished members of the committee, it is an honor to appear before you to discuss the state of al-Qaeda, its affiliates, and associated groups. My test...
Legislative Testimonies
The Arab Spring and Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence
Download the full testimony (PDF). Chairman McKeon...
Legislative Testimonies
Obama’s Kobe Bryant-Al Qaeda Flap
A long New Yorker profile of President Obama provides a g...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
New Senate Report: Al Qaeda Network Attacked in Benghazi
The Senate Intelligence Committee has now released its declassified review of the intelligence surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. The bottom line is this: Mul...
Op-eds
Know Your Enemy
In the summer of 2008, Barack Obama, senator and presidential candidate, toured the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama had endeared himself to the antiwar left by denouncing President Bush’s d...