Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

September 11, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Twenty-three years into the long war

The threat matrix keeps expanding

December 3, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Stop With the Nice Words on Qatar

David Barnea, the head of Israel’s Mossad, announced Saturday that he was withdrawing the Israeli negotiating team from the Gulf Arab emirate of Qatar. The announcement signaled the end of the hostage...

October 31, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

A U.S. Ultimatum for Qatar: Stop Sheltering Hamas

If Doha continues backing the terror group, it should be held accountable for American hostages’ deaths.

March 15, 2023 | Waller R. Newell, Clifford D. May

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

June 17, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain, David Adesnik

Tainted Qatari Millions Are All Over Washington

Qatar is also sending billions to a small circle of top-flight universities.

September 18, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda affiliated media group stresses importance of ‘idea development’ in 9/11 video

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 hijackings, As Sahab, al Qaeda’s main media arm, did not release a video commemorating the attacks. Instead, As Sahab posted a lengthy production in which Ayman al...

June 9, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Leaving Afghanistan

There’s not much time left to mitigate the consequences

May 23, 2017 | John Hannah |

Qatar Needs to Do Its Part

An important goal of President Donald Trump’s meetings with Arab and Islamic leaders this past weekend was to encourage them to shoulder more of the burden in defending our common interests...

April 21, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Time for the US to stop Qatar’s support for terror

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is on a Mideast tour to “continue efforts to strengthen regional security architectures.” While his meetings in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel are li...

March 23, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

What’s Really Behind Trump’s Laptop Ban

More than 15 years after the September 11 hijackings, the U.S. government has issued yet another warning about airline security. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced ne...

September 7, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

Did al Qaeda exchange former Pakistani army chief’s son for Zawahiri’s daughters?

Al Qaeda claims that two of Ayman al Zawahiri’s daughters and a third woman were released weeks ago in exchange for the son of General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s former spymaste...

April 20, 2016 | Clifford D. May

A spy’s story

After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionag...

February 24, 2015 |

Qatar Needs Tough Love

In his closing remarks at the White House summit on countering violent extremism this past week, President Barack Obama ...

February 9, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Doha’s Dangerous Dalliance

Co-authored by Luke Lischin Qatari support for Islamist non-state actors has been an escalating source of tension for the monarchy in some of its vital relationships. Qatar&rsqu...

January 28, 2015 |

King Salman’s Shady History

President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is Ki...

January 22, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Analysis: Freed Former al Qaeda Operative Was Part of Intelligence Dispute

Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary of their final report investigati...

January 20, 2015 | David Weinberg The Long War Journal

Analysis: Former al Qaeda Operative Freed, Sent Home to Qatar

Editor's Note: For more on Qatar's track record in fighting terrorism, see Dr. Weinberg's report for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies&#...

December 19, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Uruguay Six

On Sunday, December 7, a U.S. military medical aircraft landed in South America, to deliver six jihadists from the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay to Uruguay. For more than a dozen ye...

December 17, 2014 | Clifford D. May

America Needs Its Rough Men

In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did...

December 10, 2014 |

New FDD Report Reveals Depth of Qatar’s Terror Financing

WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance today released Part One of a three-part series revealing Qatar’s shocking record of ne...