A Tunisian national guardsman murdered two Jewish cousins and three Tunisian officers last Tuesday, turning a festive occasion into a tragedy. Aviel and Benjamin Haddad were among thousands of...
From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa
The US Treasury Department announced today that three Islamic State officials have been sanctioned f...
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
The jihadist group that calls itself the Islamic State has increasingly set its sights on expanding into North Africa. The eighth issue of the group’s English-language magazineDabiq...
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Co-authored by Bridget Moreng The Islamic State’s lightning offensive through Iraq and Syria last year has dominated the headlines, but the jihadist group that has won the...
The Tunisian government’s investigation of the devastating March 18 Bardo museum attack in Tunis yielded a surprising result. While the Islamic State (IS) quickly...
The long arm of al Qaeda.
There was a moment in July when the cease-fire talks in Cairo were on uneasy footing. The Israelis had floated an offer with Egypt, who decided to announce the proposal before informing Hamas. Th...
Co-authored by Bridget Moreng Tunisian security forces Saturday night gunned down a suspect in the assassination of one of the country’s leading secularist politicians. It was the secon...
Since June 2012, Peter Bergen, the swashbuckling reporter who serves as CNN’s national-security analyst and a director of the liberal New America Foundation, has been among those in the for...
If peace were suddenly to break out in the Middle East, John Kerry would undoubtedly assure his place in the Secretary of State Hall of Fame. Defiantly challenging a chorus of naysayers at home a...
Rampaging Islamist vigilantes are cracking down on free expression -- and ruining Tunisia's Arab Spring.
Islamist groups are bankrolling terror groups across the Middle East and pretending it's aid work.
On and around September 11, 2012, al Qaeda attacked multiple American assets around the world. The attack that has received the most attention is the deadly attack on the American consulate in Be...
On Sept. 14, the US embassy in Tunis came under assault. The American staff evacuated the embassy unscathed, but the attackers hoisted an al Qaeda-style black flag high above the emptied compound...
While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his &ldquo...
Egypt captured Israeli-American Ilan Grapel to generate popular support among the volatile anti-Western middle class at home
Es gibt Ereignisse, die man nicht einmal mehr als Farce bezeichnen kann. Im September dieses Jahres laden die Vereinten Nationen zu einer "Durban 3" genannten Folgekonferenz gegen "Rassismus und...