China Buys Turkey’s Silence on Uyghur Oppression
Turkey has joined the list of majority Muslim countries that have opted for silence in dealing with the one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time.
Islamabad
China versus the world
While America staggers from coronavirus lockdown to riot curfew, China is pushing out at sea, on its borders, in its legal claims, and in the global economy. America and its allies have begun to realize...
Op-eds
US-India helicopter deal deepens vital partnership
Due to American and Indian negotiators’ failure to reach a trade agreement, some media reports panned President Donald Trump’s visit last week to India as more show than substance. Yet a closer look...
Op-eds
Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
Female Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber hits hospital
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for today’s suicide attack that targeted a hospital in the northwestern district of Dera Ismail Khan that killed eight people. The Taliban has...
Op-eds
Badness personified
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.
Op-eds
In Turkey and Pakistan, discouraging elections
Not so long ago, freedom and democracy seemed to be on the march in the world, with Turkey and Pakistan, two strategically important Muslim-majority nations, near the front of the parade. That tu...
Op-eds
Is Trump Ready to Dump Pakistan?
As U.S. ambassador to Pakistan more than a decade ago, Ryan Crocker spent much of his time trying to convince the government in Islamabad to take action against militants moving freely inside the...
Op-eds
Escalating Tensions Between U.S., Pakistan Risk Key Counterterrorism Alliance
Pakistan has said it is no longer allied with the United States after the Trump administration severed security-related aid to Islamabad over charges that the country is harboring militants, sign...
Op-eds
Experts Debate If Suspension of Aid to Pakistan Will Be Effective
After the Trump administration announced the suspension of up to $2 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan last week over charges that the country harbors terrorists, experts are now debating whether th...
Op-eds
Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy Could Actually Work
While I support President Donald Trump’s de...
Op-eds
Report: Pakistani officials deny al Qaeda’s hostage exchange story
On Sept. 2, The Long War Journal reported on a ...
Op-eds
What it’s like to be a Muslim in the CIA
It was the day after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. I was working as a CIA analyst. I sat in a room with the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, along with several other a...
Op-eds
Treasury Department: Charity run by Scottish-born jihadist an al Qaeda ‘front organization’
At first blush, Al Rahmah Welfare Organization (RWO) is a charity that serves orphans, widows and the downtrodden in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere. The group’s web page and soc...
Op-eds
Iran and Pakistan, A Cold Peace That Could Get Hot
Just how long Pakistan’s neutrality in Yemen conflict will last depends on two factors.
Op-eds
Why ‘Operation Decisive Resolve’ is the ultimate setback for Iran
Today’s Saudi-led international military intervention in Yemen, Operation Decisive Storm, is a decided setback for Iran’s regional ambitions. Officials in Tehran had been gloating abo...
Op-eds
US Adds Mullah Fazlullah to List of Global Terrorists
The US government has added Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the fractured Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists today. Fazlullah, who a...
Op-eds
The Peshawar Attack: Sickening, but No Surprise
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, one of many al-Qaeda-linked jihadist groups operating in the South Asian country, launched one of its more horrific...
Policy Briefs
The Taliban’s Hydra
Yesterday's drone strike in Pakistan's northwestern district of Hangu that killed a top Haqqani Network leader is a major tactical win for the U.S., but in the absence of a comprehensiv...
Op-eds
It’s Not Just About Syria. The Saudis Are Direct Targets of Iranian Operations
There is no reason to be surprised at the Saudis' dramatic dissing of the United States in recent days and weeks. And it's not just because the United States has backed away from direct...