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March 17, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban celebrates 2002 battle in which it defended Al Qaeda

The Taliban eulogized Mullah Saif ur Rahman Mansoor, its commander who led both Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters against U.S. forces at the battle of Shahi Kot in Paktia province in 2002. The celebration of...

May 13, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Ayman al-Zawahiri eulogizes Jalaluddin Haqqani

On May 10...

March 19, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio

Why the Taliban should be required to renounce al Qaeda in any deal with US

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October 1, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Badness personified

Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.

October 1, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Badness Personified

Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.

October 12, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

How to Defeat the Islamic Republic

Iran’s modern history is replete with examples of the citizenry seeking to reclaim power from despots. The Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled between 1925 and 1979, regularly faced popular rebell...

May 1, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

Iran’s Greatest Vulnerability

Iran is on the march all over the world, from Syria and Iraq to Venezuela and Cuba (where they have a Hezbollah base). Except when they unceremoniously retreat, as in recent days when their floti...

April 9, 2014 | |

The Outlaw Vladimir Putin

Co-authored by Lee A. Casey President Obama has repeatedly described Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal and illegitimate, but he also has sought to minimize the strat...

January 9, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Learning From the Soviets: How to Withdraw From Afghanistan

The New York Times bungles history in predicting the upcoming departure of U.S. troops.

July 30, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Obama Lost Poland

Can Romney win back America's old post-Cold War ally?

March 13, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard |

Investigating the Bin Laden Family’s Safe Havens

Perhaps someday we will learn the real extent of Osama bin Laden’s support network inside Pakistan. A truly independent investigation would begin with bin Laden’s ties to various Paki...

January 19, 2012 |

Ron Paul: Wrong on the Taliban

Ron Paul knows even less about the history of our enemies than he does about their proper...

November 28, 2011 | Khairi Abaza International Herald Tribune

Egypt’s Military Must Step Aside

With only days left before Egyptians are to vote in their first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, thousands of protesters spanning every political ideology, from secular to Islamist, hav...

November 4, 2011 | Small Wars Journal

COIN is Dead. Long Live COIN?

By Bill Ardolino On a warm August afternoon, two dozen US and Afghan soldiers trudged through sticky corn fields to the village of Majiles in the contentious district of Sabari...

August 11, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Why al-Qaeda is Winning

One of al-Qaeda's major goals has been satisfied: America's economy is far weaker now than it was 10 years ago. In 1999, not only was the U.S. economy strong, president Bill Clinton tho...

June 10, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Al Qaeda’s Resurgence

FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...

May 16, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn

Reasonable Suspicion

 In reality, however, the answer to Musharraf’s question was not so straightforward. Whether motivated by an American threat or the billions of dollars it received in U.S. aid, Pakista...

February 4, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Former Taliban Commander Dies at Gitmo

A former Taliban commander died Tuesday evening at Guantanamo after suffering an apparent heart attack or similar ailment. US Southern Command released a statement on Thursday explaining that the...

January 21, 2011 | The Long War Journal

New Investigation Into Murder of Daniel Pearl Released

On Thursday, The Center for Public Integrity released a new report detailing the circumstances of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder. The report confirms that...

January 17, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

Fatal Intersection

Although many Americans and Europeans would like to believe that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is an exclusive subsidiary of the Koran, the sharia, and other things tribal and Islamic, the...