Improvised explosive device

Soldier Killed as Israel Completes Jenin Counter-Terror Sweep 

Israel wrapped up Operation Home and Garden — a large-scale incursion into Jenin to kill or capture Palestinian terrorists and root out their infrastructure — after 48 hours in the West Bank city....

IDF Conducts Major Operation Against Terrorists in Jenin

Israeli forces conducted a major operation in the Palestinian city of Jenin tonight, striking a command center of the Jenin Brigade, among other targets. The brigade used the center as a hub to coordinate...

Unrest in the West Bank: More Than Two Years of Escalating Violence

A Newly Established Militant Organization in the West Bank Claims Several Attacks

A nascent Palestinian militant organization called The Lion’s Den (TLD) has been established in the West Bank and have publish statements claiming shooting attacks against Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...

Analysis: Thirty hour long hotel siege emblematic of Somalia’s remaining security challenges

On Friday, Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, launched a coordinated suicide assault on the Hayat Hotel in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu. Almost 30 hours later it was ended by Somali security...

Taliban ‘martyrdom’ unit attacks Afghan defense minister’s home in Kabul

The Taliban’s “martyrdom battalion” attacked the home of Afghanistan’s acting Defence Minister Bismillah Mohammadi in Kabul yesterday evening. Mohammadi survived the assassination attempt. The Taliban...

U.S. Sanctions Leader of Pro-Iran Terror Group in Iraq

Another member of Tehran’s “Axis of Resistance,” a constellation of pro-Iran proxies and partners, has been sanctioned by Washington. On Feb. 26, the U.S. Department of State designated Ahmad al-Hamidawi,...

U.S. Kills Qassem Soleimani

Donald Trump cuts off Iran’s terror arm in Iraq, while Israel braces for Iranian retaliation

Joint raid targeted al Qaeda members in Taliban stronghold, U.S. and Afghan officials say

Taliban sites posted this photo from the aftermath of a joint U.S.-Afghan raid in Musa Qala. Late yesterday, U.S. and Afghan forces targeted al Qaeda members in Musa Qala, a Taliban-controlled district...

Taliban suicide bomber strikes police in Kabul

A Taliban suicide bomber, identified by the terrorist group as “a hero of Islamic Emirate, Mullah Jabbar Logari,” leveled a police headquarters in Kabul’s Police District District 6....

Taliban IED blast kills 35 civilians in western Afghanistan

A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban in the western Afghan province of Farah killed 35 civilians and wounded 27 today. But the Taliban continues to deny responsibility for attacks that clearly targe...

Islamic State bombs bus, security personnel in western Kabul

Jihadists detonated three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in western Kabul earlier today. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the bombings, the second attack by its so-called Khorasan...

The imperative of deterrence

We invite aggression if our enemies believe “America cannot do a damn thing”

Making Sense of Iranian Escalation

Tensions are escalating with the Islamic Republic of Iran. On May 12, a flurry of ...

Taliban and Islamic State cause majority of civilian casualties in Afghan war, UN finds

More civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2018 than in any of the previous nine years, according to a newly released report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The majority...