Senior AQAP Official Praises Paris Attack in New Audio Message
A newly released audio message from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) features a top official in the group, Harith al Nadhari, praising the attack on the office...
A newly released audio message from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) features a top official in the group, Harith al Nadhari, praising the attack on the office...
A CNN affiliate in France, BMFTV, interviewed Cherif Kouachi, one of two brothers responsible for the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices, before...
The long arm of al Qaeda.
The identities and backgrounds of the terrorists who assaulted Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine, are still unknown. The Long War Journal cautions agai...
Worries about autonomous jihadist cells appear to have been realized in Paris.
A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Berlin — The horrific Islamist-animated terrorist attack today in Paris resulted in the murders of twelve people. The Islamists could be heard on video yelling “Allahu A...
The French emperor’s war against an Islamic empire is instructive
Co-Authored by Bill Ardolino Unidentified jihadists killed 12 people and injured seven in an assault on the Paris office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier t...
The "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the official name of the Taliban, released a video that showcases its operations and a training camp in the remote northeastern pr...
The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is...
It’s a tyrannical theocracy, crucifixions and decapitations are routine, women are shrouded and intimidated, the grim religious police are all over the place. It’s your Islamic...
In theory, we Americans are great proponents of diversity. In practice, how many of us stop to seriously consider the meaning of the word? If peoples really are diverse – if we differ not j...
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
''The battle of Waterloo," the Duke of Wellington is supposed to have said, "was won on the playing fields of Eton." The battle against the Islamic State could be lost on the campuses o...
AMMAN – The terrorist army formerly known as ISIS has conquered about a...
EAST JERUSALEM – “I think it goes to flames.” Nuha Musleh, a Palestinian who earns her living as a “fixer” – a guide/translator/arranger for foreign reporters...
Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan &mdas...
Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres brought a smile to my lips last week – and not by saying anything funny. They were out in the not-so-fresh air on Sunset Boulevard demonstrating agains...
“To my esteemed enemy, Mohammad-Javad Zarif.” Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations remains very proud of this dedication in his copy of Henry Kissinger’s ...