The Taliban has announced the formation of an “interim government” to rule over Afghanistan. The Taliban’s regime will be known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. This is entirely unsurprising....
The U.S. State Department announced on July 19 that Abdul Latif Nasir, a detainee held at Guantanamo since 2002, had been transferred to his native country of Morocco. Nasir’s transfer from Guantánamo...
On December 16, the Department of Justice announced that Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a 30-year-old Kenyan national, had been charged with plotting a 9/11-style attack inside the U.S. Abdullah was a member of...
This is what Washington can learn from Jerusalem’s Campaign Between the Wars.
Throughout his two terms in office, President Barack Obama faced an array of challenges from both al Qaeda and ISIS. In an interview with The Cipher Brief, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Seni...
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Secretary of State John Kerry praised the Republic of Senegal today “for offering humanitar...
CNN President Jeff Zucker says his network may not bother to report on the House...
In 1996, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a formal declaration of war against the United State...
The latest round of negotiations to end Iran’s illicit nuclear activities have, not surprisingly, come and gone without an agreement. &ldqu...
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...
Why does the Obama Justice Department seem to have trouble mounting a full-throated, compelling legal defense of Osama bin Laden’s killing? The problem for Eric Holder the attorney ge...
Cliff’s column yesterday on the Somali pirates is great. Not only have they recently hijacked American ships and killed American citizens; he points out that they are presently holdin...
When Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban, he probably never imagined that he would be captured and his detention would be turned into a leg...
The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a national-security disaster. Forget about its undermining of military commissions. Forget...
George Will's diatribe against the NSA program is meritless.
President Bush takes the NSA "scandal" head-on.