Why US-Israel Ties Just Got Warmer
The latest round in an endless cycle of violence between Israel and Gaza has culminated in a surprising win for the US- Israel relationship: an apparent renewal of vows between President Obama an...
Khartoum
How Gaza Changes the Game
A ceasefire may be imminent, but the fallout is just beginning. What’s next for Iran, Egypt, and the U.S.
Op-eds
A Sudan Surprise
Sudan has played a key role in arming Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets, experts said. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) principal objective in Gaza is to rid...
Op-eds
A Pillar of Problems
Eight questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict we still don't have a good handle on.
Op-eds
Israel Takes Out Top Terrorist
Hamas’s military apparatus is tied to Iran.
Op-eds
Israel Takes Out Top Terrorist
Earlier today, Israel struck at dozens of targets inside Gaza,...
Op-eds
Did Israel and the US Just Cooperate on a Dry-Run for an Iran Intervention?
Within hours of a bombing raid on a weapons factory in Sudan last month, the international media was pointing fingers at Israel. Some reports suggested that the strike looked like a dry run for a...
Op-eds
A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis
The murders in Benghazi are the latest in a string of attacks on American diplomats to go unanswered by the US
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Responsible for 4 Attacks on US Embassies in September
On and around September 11, 2012, al Qaeda attacked multiple American assets around the world. The attack that has received the most attention is the deadly attack on the American consulate in Be...
Op-eds
Pariah State: Examining Sudan’s Support for Terrorism
***This article originally appeared in "State Sponsorship of Terrorism", a publication of IHS Defense, Risk and Security Consulting, in June 2012. Reproduced with permission © IHS (Global...
Op-eds
The New McCarthyism
THE MEDIA has been quick to lionize Mary McCarthy, the recently fired 61-year-old CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post's Dana Priest. According to s...
Op-eds
Senior al Qaeda Ideologue Leaves Iran for Mauritania
Abu Hafs al Mauritani, a senior al Qaeda religious thinker known as "Mr. Theology," has reportedly left Iran for his home country. According to some press accounts, the Iranians "extradited" Abu...
Op-eds
On the ‘Merchant of Death’
A US court has sentenced Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the "merchant of death," to 25 years in prison. Much has been written about Bout, who supplied tyrants and terrorists the world over with weapons, oft...
Op-eds
Iran and Al-Qaeda
Late last week, the State Department announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, A.K.A. Yasin al-Suri – Yasin the Syrian. Serious stud...
Op-eds
Early Warnings Ignored
September 11: A Decade Later
Op-eds
Unhappy Anniversary
The 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, June 5 – 10, was the occasion for a flurry of media retrospectives. Less attention will be given to a related anniversary: June 19, 1967, when the I...
Op-eds
Sudan’s Elections: What Now?
With all but the cynically duplicitous, willfully blind, or invincibly ignorant acknowledging that the elections in Sudan last week were more of a farce than a demonstration of the Sudanese peopl...
Op-eds
China Goes on Safari
By Dr. J. Peter Pham Understandably, the foreign policy focus of United States policymakers and media has been trained lately primarily on the ongoing events in the Greater Midd...
Op-eds
Sudan: Looming Crises, Strategic Opportunities
While international attention remains riveted on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the western Darfur region – it has been less than two weeks since an Antonov transport belonging to the S...
Op-eds
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...