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May 1, 2024 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Damjan Krnjević Mišković

The Azerbaijanis, Not the Azeris, Are Hosting COP29

The Republic of Azerbaijan will host the annual  UN  Climate Change Conference known as COP29 in November 2024. For many who will attend COP29 and follow the process, this will be their first...

October 19, 2023 | Bill Roggio, Jonathan Schanzer

Hamas, Israel, and the danger of safe havens

The Hamas terrorist group shocked Israel by carrying out a coordinated assault unlike anything the world has seen since Lashkar-e-Taiba’s terror assault on Mumbai in 2007 or al-Qaeda’s attack on 9/11....

January 23, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

Eyewitness: Volcano, tsunami devastate Tonga, help urgently needed

World Exclusive: ‘One could see the huge smoke column from the volcano shoot straight up from the horizon into the sky, until you couldn’t see it anymore. It’s almost as if it was erupting into space itself.’

September 18, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda affiliated media group stresses importance of ‘idea development’ in 9/11 video

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 hijackings, As Sahab, al Qaeda’s main media arm, did not release a video commemorating the attacks. Instead, As Sahab posted a lengthy production in which Ayman al...

March 27, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Trevor Logan

Did China cross a new red line in cyberspace?

The Mumbai hack showed complete disregard for collateral damage.

July 12, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan charges 13 Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders under Anti-Terrorism Act

Last week, Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department charged Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed and 12 other key members of the group with money laundering and financing terrorist groups. If history i...

March 6, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan claims to ‘crack down’ on Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Again.

The Pakistani government says it is shuttering institutions that belong to Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a designated terrorist group that is an alias for Lashkar-e-Taiba. If the past is any guide, the effort...

March 5, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan has ‘full-fledged plan’ to take out terrorist groups, while denying their existence

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February 19, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

‘Our soil is not used for carrying out terrorist attacks,’ Pakistan PM claims

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May 7, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes

The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...

July 18, 2017 |

Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers

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July 13, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate

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November 30, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Bloody Trail

The writing has been on the wall for so long that it has already begun to fade. The bloody trail of Islamist terrorism is the single most insidious threat to our free societies’ globalised...

November 16, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

After Paris, We Need A Strategy To Fight Islamic Jihad

I do not know for sure who masterminded and organized the terrorist assault on Paris, although most evidence points to ISIS. We will probably know a lot more in a few days. Multiple attacks requi...

November 15, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Terror on the Cheap: Paris Attacks Required Little Funding

The U.S. government imposed sanctions on two French citizens in September for their ties to the Islamic State. One of them,...

November 15, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Paris Terror Attacks Indicate That Age of Urban Warfare May Just Be Beginning

The atrocities in Paris are not just terrorism: They represent yet another example of an urban warfare attack designed to kill, terrorize and shut down a major city for an extended period of time...

November 9, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not a Conspiracy

In May, the London Review of Books published a 10,000-word exposé by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the killing of Osama bin Laden. It was widely read online, receiving...

March 5, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of...

February 27, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

New Docs Reveal Osama bin Laden’s Secret Ties With Iran

This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect. The U.S. government accuse...

February 20, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Doomed Diplomacy

Not long after his inauguration in January 2009, President Barack Obama penned a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. As a presidential candidate, Obama had promised...