Christopher Stevens

May 12, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

Trump Reportedly Considering Mike Rogers, Author of Scorned Benghazi Report, for FBI Director

Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is considering former Rep. Mike Rogers to replace James Comey as FBI director. Rogers is a former FBI agent; by the end of his seven terms in Congress...

May 12, 2015 | |

Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?

Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...

January 28, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn FDD Policy Brief |

Libyan Ansar al-Sharia Leader Gets Medical Treatment in Turkey

Ansar al-Sharia Libya confirmed this weekend that its leader, Mohamed al-Zahawi, had passed away from wounds sustained last year. Ansar al-Sharia is a jihadist group best-known outside of Libya f...

December 11, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Benghazi Report

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t...

December 9, 2014 | Merve Tahiroglu FDD Policy Brief |

AQ Leader’s Arrest Highlights Turkey’s Terror Problem

A joint U.S.-Turkish operation last month led to the capture of a senior...

August 1, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Ansar al Sharia Ally A Key Figure in Benghazi Security Failures

A key figure in the security failures surrounding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya is fighting alongside members of Ansar al Sharia, which is one of the terrori...

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...

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 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...

October 7, 2013 | John Hannah |

Settle Scores With Those Who Have Killed Americans

Fairly or not, in the eyes of the world President Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis has laid waste to what little remained of his claim to be a credible commander in chief. How to...

July 10, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Salafi Jihadism in the North African Regional Context

Chairmen Poe and Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Members Sherman and Deutch, distinguished members of the subcommittees, it is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the threat of jihadist terroris...

June 6, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Al Qaeda vs. Hezbollah

Back during the Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage famously called Hezbollah the “A Team of terrorists,” adding, “al-Qaeda is actually the B Team.&r...

May 29, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Blame for Benghazi Goes Deeper Than a Conspiracy

Many conservatives suspect that the U.S. State Dep...

May 23, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi

‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-polic...

February 19, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

US Officials Denied Access to ‘Nasr City Cell’ Suspects

The US has not been granted access to the senior members of the so-called "Nasr City Cell" who were arrested late last year, according to several American officials familiar with the case. The Na...

December 20, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Investigating ‘Command and Control’ in Benghazi Attack

The Accountability Review Board’s investigation into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi says much about the deteriorating security situation surrounding the U.S. consulate...

December 17, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda Lives

The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12

November 8, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

A 2016 Mideast Dispatch

In this report from the future, the U.S. pulls out of the Gulf as the Saudis cozy up to Avigdor Lieberman

November 5, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Benghazi and the Missing Obama 9/11 Timeline

The story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been evolving for more than seven weeks now, in its many and oft conflicting variants, and the questions keep multiplying. Amid the offi...