Shortly after the Trump administration signed its accord with the Taliban on Feb. 29, Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada declared “victory” on behalf “of the entire Muslim and Mujahid nation.”...
The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media
Al Qaeda’s training camps in pre-9/11 Afghanistan. The group was never uprooted from the country and remains closely allied with the Taliban to this day. Since July 2018, the UN Security Council has published...
The Islamic State’s central leadership replaced their top man in Afghanistan after a meeting earlier this year, according to a recent report submitted t...
Al Qaeda’s media arm, As Sahab, has released yet another message from Ayman al-Zawahiri. The elderly al Qaeda leader is a prolific commentator on world affairs, having released a series of videos an...
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Putin plays a weak hand well.
“Fundamentally, war is a contest of wills.”
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced...
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Under peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, the administration seems poised to give away everything America has fought for in Afghanistan since 9/11.
Afghanistan sent India...
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A report from The Jerusalem Post on death penalty for Iranian gays played a role in ending criminalization of gays.
Iran and India announced last week that New Delhi ho...
Kazakhstan is one of the ten largest countries in the world, yet most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. It spans Central Asia, home to the world’s most sophisticated civilizations...
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will be the keynote speaker at an event jointly hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Hudson Institute and the George Washington University...