Chairman McCaul, Ranking Member Thompson and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the potential threats to the U.S. emanating out of Syria. Obviously, the sit...
Co-authored Bijan R. Kian and David J. Smith Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, is back in Tehran after an all-smiles visit to the United Nations in New York....
Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda’s operations inside Iran and Syria. These ar...
It starts with a clear-eyed recognition of the threat.
The fact that both Boston Marathon bombing suspects are now either dead or in custody does not mean that the reporting on the story will be sure to get the story right. The rate of error, unfortu...
The working hypothesis at this point has to be that what took place in Boston was an act of Jihadi terrorism. The suspects are Chechens. Chechen independence is a longstanding issu...
A commander from the Russian Caucasus known as Abu Omar al Chechen has formed Jaish al-Muhajireen wa Ansar, or Army of the Emigrants and Helpers, and integrated several Syrian fighting units into...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, claimed credit for a suicide attack at a defense factory that occurred nearly three weeks ago. Several civili...
One day after the largest dam in Syria fell to jihadists spearheaded by al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, Islamist fighters seized control of a nearby airbase. Jihadists have now taken control...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda in Iraq's affiliate in Syria, has claimed credit for two more suicide attacks against Bashar al Assad's military. In...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda in Iraq's affiliate in Syria, launched a complex suicide assault on a Syrian military base near the border with Israel. The terror...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, and allied jihadist groups took control of the last ma...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for yet another suicide attack as w...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, commanded a Free Syrian Army unit and "Chechen emigran...
Just days after al Qaeda released a video of its fighters conducting operations in Ghazni, Afghan officials said that "foreign militants" are continuing to flood the southeastern province....
Some have argued that last week’s massacre in the Syrian city of Houla, where Bashar al-Assad loyalists killed more than a hundred people, a third of whom were children, may in time come to...
The Iran-al Qaeda alliance.
Are we witnessing a turning point in the Muslim world’s attitude toward terrorism? Self-described “martyrs” who kill in the name of Islam have long been revered figures among Is...
Declarations and resolutions do not a state make.
Pakistan has freed a senior al Qaeda commander who served as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, according to a report from the region. Dr. Amin al Haq, who served as the security coordina...