Benghazi

June 27, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross FDD Policy Brief

Operation Dignity: New Fighting Grips Libya

Co-Authored by Nathaniel Barr Former Libyan army general Khalifa Hifter l...

May 27, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

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...

May 27, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

May 14, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

A Failure of Policy

Forty-one recently declassified State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, have reignited the controversy over the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack...

May 12, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya

Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...

February 11, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda’s Expansion in Egypt Implications for U.S. Homeland Security

Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss al Qaeda’s presence in Egypt. The uprisings throughou...

February 10, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

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...

February 3, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

The Arab Spring and Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence

Download the full testimony (PDF). Chairman McKeon...

January 22, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Obama’s Kobe Bryant-Al Qaeda Flap

A long New Yorker profile of President Obama provides a g...

January 16, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

January 15, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

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...

January 9, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Gitmo Detainee the Times Just Denied Was in Benghazi . . . Was in Benghazi

U.S. officials ...

January 9, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Down the Times’ Benghazi Rabbit Hole

What was the commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces doing through the night of September 11, 2012, while he knew Americans were under jihadist siege in Libya? You won’t learn...

January 8, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Bombshell

The Washington Post ...

January 2, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not a ‘Bogus’ Benghazi Connection

During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick was asked about the connections between Muhammad Jamal’s network and the B...

January 2, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Politico Jumps in the Benghazi Debate

Blake Hounshell of Politico takes a look at the...

December 31, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Al-Qaeda Is Alive and Kicking in Benghazi

Berlin – The organizational energy and sophisticated firepower used to attack the U.S. consulate in Benghazi struck many seasoned counterterrorism experts as indicat...

December 29, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

The New York Times Whitewashes Benghazi

David D. Kirkpatrick of the New York Times has ...

December 29, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Al Qaeda’s Big Year

Any way you measure it, 2013 was a good year for al Qaeda. It wasn’t supposed to be. Shortly after the United States killed the group’s charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden, a couple o...

November 21, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa

Watch the hearing here. Chairman Kaine, Ranking Member Risch...