In a newly released video, Abu Yasir al-Jaza’iri, a senior ideologue within al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), sends a message of encouragement to AQIM’s Sahelian wing, the Group for Support of...
Excerpt On Feb. 14, 1989, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, condemning author Salman Rushdie to death for blasphemy. Rushdie had recently...
Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s recently appointed minister of sports, warned Iranian athletes in August not to compete against counterparts from the “child-killing and occupying regime of Israel.” With the...
Similar to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his day, there are no fake smiles to the West and no illusions when it comes to Iran's president-elect. He openly states his very clear views, and it will be hard to argue, as a result, that Iran needs to be treated sympathetically.
Shabaab’s latest video features a clip of Ayman al-Zawahiri criticizing “corrupt regimes” that are allied with America. Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, has released a lengthy video that...
Co-written by Ben Cohen. Back in 2002, the serving president of France, Jacques Chirac, huffily told an interviewer from the New York Times, “To imagine that France, the v...
Donald Trump's recent sojourn in the Middle East leaves the United States where it was before the president departed: His administration remains committed to containing Iran while...
On Monday, the State Department revealed that it possessed evidence that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime was operating an industrial crematorium at the Saydnaya...
The legendary cleric Abbas Vaez Tabasi died this month after thirty-seven years supe...
Six days after Turkey reluctantly joined the US war effort against ISIS with its ...
FIFA, the world’s soccer governing body, has fallen on hard times. Last week U.S. authorities filed a sweeping 47-count indictment against 14 FIFA-linked officials over what they called &ld...
Our attention these days with regard to security is understandably riveted on the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its hideous decapitations, rapes and live immolations. We must deal with the...
On February 26, an Iran Air flight landed in Istanbul carrying a prominent passenger in seat 19F: former Iranian President...
Co-authored by Arsham Parsi While the world powers prepare for a July negotiation session with Iran over its illicit nuclear program, the deteriorating situation for sexual mino...
Human rights activists from international organizations ramped up their pressure in a late December letter to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, calling on him to swiftly end Iran’s per...
ON THE TURKISH-SYRIAN BORDER – Syrian refugees, who have gone to great lengths to escape President Bashar Assad’s bombing campaign, attribute a large part of the violence in their cou...
There’s nothing wrong with wishful thinking — unless it gets confused with serious thinking. Policy makers and legislators have a professional responsibility to resist that temptation...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...
Nevertheless, they are absolutely necessary.
Co-authored by Lauren Morgan The term “Islamist” has been bandied about frequently since revolutionary events gripped the Arab world last year. It is a term meant to...