Argentine Prosecutor Found Dead, Fought Iran-Backed Terror Around World
Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (the AMIA building) in Argentina, has been ...
Tanzania
Iran Honors Al-Qaeda Mentor
During his visit to Lebanon on January 13, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari placed a wreath at the tomb of Imad Mugniyah and then bowed his head in reverence. Zar...
Op-eds
The Limits to Obama’s Surgical Counterterrorism Strikes
The Obama administration’s decision to send elite commando troops to pursue al-Qaeda terrorists in Libya and Somalia advances American interests. Without question, the ...
Op-eds
Iran and African Uranium
By Zachary Elkaim The Zimbabwean government recently issued a denial of a Times of London...
Policy Briefs
Our ‘Bar the Door’ Strategy
I like bipartisanship as much as the next guy. Still, the Washington Post...
Op-eds
Global al Qaeda: Affiliates, Objectives, and Future Challenges
Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda. We have been asked to “examine the nature of...
Legislative Testimonies
Egypt and the African Union
By Zachary Elkaim Following the ouster of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi earlier this month, the Afric...
Policy Briefs
Have Tehran’s Tankers Hijacked the Tanzanian Flag?
When President Obama visited Tanzania last week, he praised the East African country as a place with which he feels a “special connection.” A glitch he did not mention is that Tanzani...
Op-eds
See No Evil
During his speech at the National Defense University on May 23, President Obama sought to reassure Americans that they are “safer” because of the administration’s “efforts...
Op-eds
Details Emerge on Suspects in Canadian Terror Plot
By David Barnett On April 22, Canadian officials said the plotting of Chiheb Esseghaier and...
Op-eds
Canadian Terror Plot Linked to al Qaeda in Iran
Canadian police officials have linked the plotting of two Muslim men to destroy a Toronto passenger train to al Qaeda's network inside Iran. The two suspects, neither of whom are Canadian ci...
Op-eds
Canada Plot Revives Concerns about Ties Between Iran and al-Qaeda
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced on Monday that it disrupted a plot to derail a VIA passenger tra...
Policy Briefs
African AQ Affiliate Groups Leave Signatures in Mali
Al-Qaeda affiliated groups in northern Mali launched a...
Policy Briefs
Benghazi Suspect Fled to Pakistan, Recently Detained in Libya
A suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been detained in Libya, according to multiple press outlets. CNN...
Op-eds
Uncharitable Organizations
Islamist groups are bankrolling terror groups across the Middle East and pretending it's aid work.
Op-eds
Veteran Sudanese Jihadist Killed in French Airstrike in Mali
A senior al Qaeda commander who waged jihad for more than 20 years in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Chechnya, and the Sudan was killed in a French airstrike in Mali. A Sudanese jihadist...
Op-eds
US Adds 2 Sudanese al Qaeda Operatives to List of Terrorists
The US government has added two al Qaeda-linked operatives who murdered a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum in 2008 to the list of g...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12
Op-eds
From al Qaeda in Italy to Ansar al Sharia Tunisia
Two convicted members of an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Italy are now senior members of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia. The pair, Sami Ben Khemais Essid and Mehdi Kammoun, were arrested in 20...
Op-eds
Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...