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February 26, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

New Report by FDD Scholar Outlines Civil War in Libya

WASHINGTON- A new report authored by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, outlines how Libya’s civil war between the Dignity and Dawn campaig...

February 28, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Standpoint |

It’s Too Late To Stop Syria Disintegrating

I still remember seeing him in my parents' garden, fresh from a trek from hell, running for his life. What remains seared in my memory is how swollen his feet were — cov...

May 31, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Real ‘Spring’ is Not Arab

Buried beneath the news’ cycle of the Arab Spring is a much overlooked and potentially r...

June 23, 2011 |

The Real Palestinian Vision

Mahmoud Abbas sees a state free of Jews.

June 14, 2011 | The American Thinker

Be Wise on Kosovo

Over the past few months a number of Western leaders, including senior United States figures, have lent their support to separating the province of Kosovo from the Republic of Serbia, based on th...

June 13, 2011 | American Thinker

Holy War and Anti War: An Axis against Nature

The oddest of all factional relationships is the open alliance between the Jihadists and the so-called "antiwar" neo-Left movement in the West. The jumble of causes thrown together is mind-bendin...

March 14, 2011 |

Bedouin Warriors Know How to Fight

The opposition fighting against the Gaddafi regime is described, not unsympathetically, as “a motley army of poorly armed civilian volunteers.” But what the article does not tell us a...

December 2, 2010 |

Democracy in The Middle East?

Since the end of the Ottoman Empire, through the many conflicts of the 20th century, the Middle East and North Africa have undergone two countervailing trends: the rise of authoritarian regimes a...

September 23, 2010 | World Defense Review

When Crime Does Pay

In my annual survey of African "hot spots" back in January, I noted that "al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) seems to be stirring again as well as getting more involved in illicit trafficking...

February 20, 2010 | Global Post

Mali, A New Haven For Al Qaeda

PARIS, France - The Sahel - this vast semi-arid region of North Africa south of the Sahara desert - is viewed by some experts as a "second Afghanistan." This might be a stretch, but it is true th...

January 28, 2010 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Emerging West African Terror-Drug Nexus Poses Major Security Threat

Over the course of the last month, the foiled attempt by would-be "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger flight on Christmas Day has underscored the dan...

May 8, 2008 |

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: An Evolving Challenge in the War on Terror


Last Thursday an airstrike on the Somali town of Dhusamareb, 300 miles north of Mogadishu (see
W. Thomas Smith, Jr.'s report in Human Events), dispatched Adan Hashi ‘Ayro, the commander of al-Shabaab ("the youth"), the terrorist organization spearheading the bloody Islamist insurgency in the Horn of Africa, and several of his cohorts to the custody of the nineteen angels stoking the stone-fueled fires of hell (Qur'an 74:30, 66:6). The territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic is, however, only one front in the war on terror's African theater. Another is the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert and the Sahel, areas which are likely to play an increasingly significant role in the overall struggle against extremism.

September 30, 2004 | FrontPage Magazine

A Mid East American Revolution Is Coming

Since September 11, 2001, a major question crossed the minds of many U.S. citizens: What would make 19 men from the Middle East hate us so much that they would massacre 3,000 Americans? Every anc...

September 9, 2004 | FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Darfur – Islam’s Killing Fields

Why is it that -- yet again -- another Arab League member is massacring its minority populations? Why is the Western media reluctant to identify the religion and ethnicity of the mass murderers a...