Lebanese General Bids to Circumvent Congress
Last Wednesday, the Lebanese press reported that the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), Gen. Joseph Aoun, is preparing for an official visit to Washington in the coming few days. Accor...
Militant
The Implications of U.S. Aircraft Sales to Iran
Chairman Huizenga, Vice Chairman Mulvaney, Ranking Member Moore, and distinguished members of the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade, I am honored to appea...
Congressional Testimonies
The Sixth Annex
Increasingly and publicly, the White House is recognizing Iranian zones of influence in the Levant as legitimate
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
From Westgate to Garissa, Shabab’s Murderous Wave
Co-written by Nathaniel Barr After the Somali militant group al-Shabab carried out a gruesome ...
Op-eds
Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya
Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...
Congressional Testimonies
4 ‘Militants’ Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan
The US killed four "militants" in a drone strike in the jihadist hub of Datta Khel in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike today is the first reported...
Op-eds
2 ‘Militants’ Reported Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan
US drones are reported to have killed two "militants," including a "foreign national," as they rode on horseback in the terrorist hub of Datta Khel in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal ag...
Op-eds
Shin Bet: Rise in Attacks From the Sinai in 2012
By David Barnett On Thursday, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency or Shabak) released its 2012...
Op-eds
Is Algeria’s Kidnapper a ‘Common Criminal?’ Look Again
Following the dramatic hostage raid at the In Amenas gas field in Algeria that left...
Op-eds
US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in 1st Strike in Pakistan in More Than a Month
The US killed three "militants," including "foreigners," in the first drone strike recorded in Pakistan in more than a month. The remotely piloted Predators or the more heavily armed Rea...
Op-eds
US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in Datta Khel
US drones killed three "militants" in an area of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan that is known to serve as a haven for al Qaeda. The strike is the first in Pa...
Op-eds
US Drone Strike Kills Saudi ‘Militant’ in Yemen
The US killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a drone strike in Yemen yesterday. The strike, which reportedly killed a Saudi jihadist, is the first in Yemen more than three week...
Op-eds
US Drone Strike Kills 12 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan
The US launched a drone strike in the Shawal Valley in Pakistan's tribal agency of Pakistan today, killing 12 "militants," including a local Taliban commander. The strike is the first in Pak...
Op-eds
US Drones Kill 17 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan Strike
The US killed 17 suspected "militants" in a strike in an area of the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan that is known to host la Qaeda's top leaders. The remotely...
Op-eds
A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...
Op-eds
US Drone Strike Kills 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan
Today the US launched its first drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in nearly a month. The strike in North Waziristan targeted an abandoned school that is known to be...
Op-eds
US Predators Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan
Unmanned US strike aircraft attacked terrorist targets in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency for the third time in less than three weeks, killing four "militants" in an area known t...
Op-eds
Militant Islamism, Islamism, Islam
A senior U.S. military advisor attempts their “disaggregation” – not entirely successfully.