Intensive care unit

January 10, 2022 | David Adesnik, K.M. Schaefer

Syria Faces Omicron Amid a Shortage of Vaccines

As in other countries, statistics do not convey the extent of the suffering.

December 20, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Abu Muqawama

The Shape of Al Shabaab’s Post-Kismayo Attacks

In late September, African Union (AU) forces surrounded the port city of Kismayo on Somalia’s southern coast. The AU troops stood on the threshold of capturing the city from the al Qaeda-af...

August 23, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

It’s Not About Israel, Stupid — It’s About Us

When is the last time any of the four candidates visited Walter Reed Medical Center in suburban Washington?  If they did it in recent months, I haven’t seen any press coverage of it. W...

July 9, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

2 Eritrean Officials Designated for Supporting Shabaab

The US Treasury Department designated six supporters of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, on July...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

Eritrea: The Horn of Africa’s Rogue Regime

Last week, exasperated with Eritrea's continued violations of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and its increasing harassment of representatives at the American Embassy in Asmara...

September 27, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Critical Questions Regarding The Role of Foreign Fighters in Shabaab

Earlier today I served as a panelist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's annual conference on foreign fighters, discussing the phenomenon in Somalia. The panel discussion was based ar...

September 11, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Is ‘Constructive Disengagement’ the Solution in Somalia?

On Thursday, Joshua Foust published an article at PBS's Need to Know that, though avoiding the term "constructive disengagement," mirrors the arguments advanced by Bronwyn Bruton's repo...

March 6, 2008 |

Why AFRICOM is Critical for Our Security Interests


This week I thought it useful to update readers on developments with some of the stories that have been previously reported in this column.

August 16, 2007 |

On the Move

Al Qaeda could beat the U.S. in Iraq if American political will collapses.

June 22, 2007 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bill Roggio, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Strategies of Death

FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson and Bill Roggio, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.   Daveed Gartenstein Ross, let’s begin with you....

January 11, 2007 |

Resurrecting Somalia

As of this week, the United States is directly engaged in Somalia, Ethiopian forces are successfully advancing and Al-Qaeda and Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fighters have been effectively cornered-...

January 8, 2007 |

Strikes in Somalia

On Sunday, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship launched a strike against what Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman on Tuesday called “principal al-Qaeda leadership” operating in sout...

October 26, 2006 | World Defense Review

Update: Islamist Radicals Still on the March in Somalia

While recent crises in other parts of the world have pushed them even farther from the headlines, the Islamist radicals who took control of the sometime Somali capital of Mogadishu in early June...