Khamenei’s Choice to Head Powerful Charity Bolsters the IRGC
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Parviz Fattah as the new head of the...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
King Salman’s Shady History
President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is Ki...
Op-eds
A Muslim Identity Crisis
The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the inde...
Op-eds
Keep Relief Efforts From Terrorists’ Hands
Co-authored by Danny Eisen War, natural disasters and political instability ensure that the issue of foreign aid remains at the forefront of Canadian policy and public debate. I...
Op-eds
Turkish Flotilla Charity Tied to Terrorism Again
Serbian news agencies reported this week that a Turkish charity, best known for organizing a 2010 flotilla to Gaza th...
Policy Briefs
Bosnia Expels Two Iranian Diplomats
The government of Bosnia ordered two Iranian diplomats to leave the Balkan country by the end of the month because they violated diplomatic protocol. A Serbian-language paper in Sarajevo...
Op-eds
Report Warns of Hezbollah, Iran Threats in Balkans
A leading Balkan-based website covering the region’s politics published in late March a comprehensive study on Israeli-Balkan relations and the threat of Hezbollah, along with its chief spo...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12
Op-eds
Two ‘Leaders’ Let the Blood Flow
We must do more to oust Assad
Op-eds
Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...
Op-eds
Egypt Requests Release of al Qaeda Explosives Expert
The Egyptian government has requested the release of a top al Qaeda explosives expert from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to...
Op-eds
Abu Zubaydah and Iran
At the Washington Free Beacon, Bill Gertz has a piece about Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA’s Counte...
Op-eds
Guantanamo Detainee Releases Audio Message to Syrian People
An audio message to the Syrian people purportedly from a current Guantanamo detainee has been released online by jihadist forums, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. The message is reported...
Op-eds
A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...
Op-eds
It’s Time to Add Syria to Kofi Annan’s Long List of Failures
It should have raised red flags when both Syria and Russia approved of Kofi Annan’s February 23 appointment as the Uni...
Op-eds
On the ‘Merchant of Death’
A US court has sentenced Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the "merchant of death," to 25 years in prison. Much has been written about Bout, who supplied tyrants and terrorists the world over with weapons, oft...
Op-eds
“Destroy All the Churches”
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
Op-eds
International Law and the Hamas-Fatah Doha Deal
As the PLO moves toward Hamas, it moves away, in an inverse relationship, from international legality.
Op-eds
Commander Killed in Drone Strike ‘Funneled Pakistani Jihadists’ to al Qaeda
A senior Taliban and Qaeda commander said to have been killed in the latest US drone strike in North Waziristan played a key role in funneling fighters from a radical Pakistani jihadist group to...