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...
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Paris Terrorist Reportedly Claimed Ties to Anwar al Awlaki, AQAP
A CNN affiliate in France, BMFTV, interviewed Cherif Kouachi, one of two brothers responsible for the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices, before...
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Jihad Comes to Paris
The long arm of al Qaeda.
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Analysis: Al Qaeda and Other Jihadists Repeatedly Threatened French Magazine
The identities and backgrounds of the terrorists who assaulted Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine, are still unknown. The Long War Journal cautions agai...
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France and the New Charismatic Jihad
Worries about autonomous jihadist cells appear to have been realized in Paris.
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Reaction to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre Shows How We’ve Lost Our Free-Speech Spine
A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie
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An Assassination Targeting Europe’s Freedom
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...
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Napoleon in the Middle East
The French emperor’s war against an Islamic empire is instructive
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Jihadists who attacked French magazine displayed professional training
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...
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Taliban Video Highlights Training Camp, Operations in Kunar
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...
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Iran’s Supreme Censor
The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is...
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No Fun in the Caliphate. Just the End of the World
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...
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The Truth About Diversity
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...
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Sandstorm
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...
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Jihadism and ‘the language of good and evil’
''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...
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Barbarians at Jordan’s Gate
AMMAN – The terrorist army formerly known as ISIS has conquered about a...
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Jerusalem: One City, Four Murders
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...
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The Murder Of Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar Symbolizes Pakistan’s Descent Into Self-Annihilation
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...
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Hooray for Hollywood
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...
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An Iranian Moderate Exposed
“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 ...