Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean
After the attacks in Paris and California, the debate in America has again erupted over the appropriate lexicon for discussing terrorism. Here’s an extremely abridged, alphabetized list of...
Jihadism
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
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After Paris, We Need A Strategy To Fight Islamic Jihad
I do not know for sure who masterminded and organized the terrorist assault on Paris, although most evidence points to ISIS. We will probably know a lot more in a few days. Multiple attacks requi...
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Turkey Angers the Jihadists It Once Tolerated
With Turkish authorities now singling out the Islamic State as the chief suspect in this weekend's terrorist attack in Ankara, many media outlets have turned their anger toward the governmen...
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Analysis: Report Card on 50 Years of German-Israel Relations
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cancellation of Thursday’s sixth joint cabinet consultation between Israel and Germany because of the domestic security situation comes at the end phase of...
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Why Republican Presidential Candidates Support Israel
So last week during the Republican debate, hundreds of thousands of people read your tweets lambasting four of the candidates — Gov. Chris Christie, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Senators M...
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Extreme Makeover, Jihadist Edition: Al-Qaeda’s Rebranding Campaign
Since the Islamic State made its dramatic military advance from Syria into Iraq more than a year ago — capturing...
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The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa
The jihadist group that calls itself the Islamic State has increasingly set its sights on expanding into North Africa. The eighth issue of the group’s English-language magazineDabiq...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Jihad
You probably didn’t know it but Osama bin Laden was a poet. In fact, according to Yale’s Robyn Creswell and Princeton’s Bernard Haykel, “of all jihadi poets, bin Laden was...
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How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of...
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Violent Extremist vs. Holy Warrior
Is Barack Hussein Obama wrong to avoid appending “Islamic,” “Muslim,” “Islamist,” or even “jihadist” to the terrorism that has struck the West with...
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New Docs Reveal Osama bin Laden’s Secret Ties With Iran
This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect. The U.S. government accuse...
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Paris Newspaper Attack Underscores Terrorist Shift to ‘Soft Targets’
Majority of recent jihadi attacks perpetrated by ‘lone wolves’ on easy prey
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Jihadists Continue to Advertise Training Camps in Iraq and Syria
Several jihadist groups operating in Iraq and Syria continue to showcase facilities used to train their fighters. Since Dec. 1, seven new camps have been identified by The Long W...
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Giving Peace a Chance
Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti...
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Double Trouble: Beware of the Irani-Sudanese Partnership
It’s a rare day that the Sudan Tribune runs headlines that garner international attention. But on September 1, the...
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They Have a Strategy
During a press conference on August 28, Barack Obama had a rare moment of candor. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” the president said in response to a question about the prospect...
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The Islamic State’s Vulnerability
As the U.S. military joins with its allies and temporarily-aligned enemies to fulfill President Obama’s promise to “...
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Faith, Fanaticism and Fantasy in the Middle East
“God created war,” theorized Mark Twain, “so that Americans would learn geography.” That’s as true today as it was two centuries ago. How many of us would be able to...
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Jihadism and ‘the language of good and evil’
''The battle of Waterloo," the Duke of Wellington is supposed to have said, "was won on the playing fields of Eton." The battle against the Islamic State could be lost on the campuses o...