Tens of Thousands of Syrian Rebels Poised to Regroup
Al Qaeda’s role in the Syrian civil war drastically increased after the al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) managed to take control of Syria&rsqu...
Lawrence Wright
Was David Drugeon a French Intelligence Agent?
David Drugeon, a high-ranking French member of the al-Qaeda-linked Khorasan group in Syria, has been little known by English speakers. That is beginning to change: On October 29, CNN reported tha...
Op-eds
Brother of al Qaeda’s Emir Justifies 9/11
MEMRI has published excerpts of an Al Jazeera interview with Mohammed al Zawahiri, the brother of al Qaeda emir Ayman al...
Op-eds
Zawahiri’s Brother at Cairo Embassy Assault
During the assault on the U.S. embassy in Egypt, demonstrators reportedly chanted “Obama! Obama! We are all Osama!” They yelled this obvious reference to Osama bin Laden as an al Qaed...
Op-eds
CNN Interviews Mohamed al Zawahiri
Post-Mubarak Egypt presents a number of counterterrorism challenges for the US and its allies. An unknown...
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
A Blase Reading of the Dangers of Sharia Law
Michael Gerson’s assault on Newt Gingrich’s opposition to the Arabian version of Islamic law [“...
Op-eds
Declaring War on the ‘Far Enemy’
On Aug. 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden, within a few months of arriving in Afghanistan, issued a manifesto proclaiming himself at war with the world's only remaining superpower. Bin Laden's...
Op-eds
Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Revolution
"I herewith proclaim to those (Western leaders) who still do not want to see the realities that the political axis of the new Middle East will soon be Islamic rulership and a democracy base...
Op-eds
Reflections on Osama bin Laden, and his Continuing Relevance
Earlier today, I did a rather lengthy written interview with a journalist from an online Romanian newspaper. In light of the new tapes Osama bin Laden released last month, he put a number of ques...
Op-eds
Cry Islamophobia!
We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...
Op-eds
Oil Itself Is A Problem
On June 18, 2009, inFOCUS editor Jonathan Schanzer interviewed R. James Woolsey. Mr. Woolsey was Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Woolsey is Chairman of the Adviso...
Op-eds
Cheer up. We’re winning this War on Terror
"My centre is giving way. My right is in retreat. Situation excellent. I shall attack!” If only our political leaders and opinion-formers displayed even a hint of the defiant...
Op-eds
Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself
Back in August of last year I wrote: A shift in strategy initiated by the new U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, is changing ideas about both al Qaeda...