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June 5, 2015 |

Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt

Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at...

May 22, 2015 |

Egypt’s Religious Freedom Farce

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt presents himself as an Islamic reformer. He has...

February 25, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ISIL’s International Expansion: What Does Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis’s Oath of Allegiance Mean?

The international expansion of the jihadist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has become a ...

January 8, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Spectator |

The Truth About ISIS… They’re Better at Twitter Than War

The Islamic State’s real social media skill makes commentators too willing to believe its shaky territorial claims

July 11, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Murder on the Democracy Express

Who killed Egyptian democracy? Elite foreign-policy analysts have been providing strikingly divergent answers. Egypt’s military is, of course, the prime s...

February 6, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Prominent al Qaeda Leader Killed in Drone Strike in 2012

Al Qaeda announced the death of Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed, a longtime senior jihadist leader and military commander who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan sometime in the spring...

December 17, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda Lives

The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12

October 26, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Helped Incite 9/11 Cairo Protest

Several al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite the protest outside the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The jihadists include senior members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a group that merged...

July 2, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

On Egyptian President-elect’s Vow to Work for Blind Sheikh’s Release

The New York Times has a report this morning about the pledge by Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, to work for the release from U.S. p...

July 2, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Obama Administration’s Breathtaking Arrogance on Questions about Inviting a Terrorist to Washington

One should always hesitate before jumping to the conclusion that the something that just happened is the worst thing that has ever happened — history usually has many worse “worsts&rd...

March 1, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Releasing the Blind Sheikh?

It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.

October 13, 2011 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard

The Copts Will Fight

But they won’t win.

January 31, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer The National Interest

Watch the Islamists

An estimated three dozen Islamist militants reportedly escaped from an Egyptian prison on Sunday amid the chaos that has enveloped the country. This did little to quiet the raging debate over the...

January 20, 2011 | The National Interest

The Ossification of Egypt

After decades of looking to Egypt to provide stability in the Middle East, Washington finds Cairo contending with an increasingly dangerous combination of ossified leadership, Islamist violence,...

December 17, 2009 |

Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism

So we're going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Tho...

June 5, 2008 |

Who Says We Can’t Find Common Ground with al Qaeda?

 At his arraignment today, upon being advised by the military court of the possibility that he could be executed if convicted, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the jihadist savage who orchestrated the...

October 20, 2006 | TCS Daily

The Blind Sheik’s Mistress

Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhe...

October 12, 2004 |

Egypt and Militant Islam

Last week, three suicide bombings within an hour left at least 34 people dead and hundreds wounded at resorts frequented by Israeli tourists in the Taba region of the Sinai Peninsula. In the afte...