Viet Cong

March 20, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Profiles of commanders in the new Syrian army’s regional divisions

On January 29, Syria’s new leadership announced the dissolution of the Assad regime’s Syrian Arab Army and launched a unification process to integrate various armed militias into a single national...

August 15, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Wanted al Qaeda leader warns of Turkish influence on jihad in Syria

A statement attributed to Saif al-Adel (left) was disseminated online this week. Last year, the State Department announced a reward of $10 million for information on al-Adel and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah,...

May 20, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Assad’s forces battle jihadists for key terrain in Latakia

For more than a week, forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have attempted to capture Kabani, a key location in the coastal Latakia province. Assad’s men have met stiff resistance from jihadists in the ar...

January 12, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht The Washington Examiner

CIA Bides its Time

The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...

October 25, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Covert Story

There is probably no harder beat in Washington than intelligence.  Journalists rarely have sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency who are not authorized, and when they do, o...

September 18, 2009 |

Pashtuns and Pakistanis

The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop...

January 25, 2007 | Bill Cowan, Carlton Sherwood, Ralph Peters, Andy McCarthy FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Iraq – The Challenge Ahead

FP: Bill Cowan, Carlton Sherwood, Jim Woolsey, Ralph Peters and Andy McCarthy, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.   I want to get your views on Saddam’s execution,...

October 20, 2006 | TCS Daily

The Blind Sheik’s Mistress

Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhe...

July 11, 2006 | National Review Online

Mythical Myths

Andrew Sullivan, via Georgetown's Marty Lederman (who has posted an analysis of “Myths” about the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan and related issues), is quailing about NRO's...

June 1, 2005 | Clifford D. May |

What If We Don’t Win?

In Iraq, they say, failure is not an option. But it is a possibility. From the start of the intervention, two critical questions have awaited answers: Is there a critical mass of Iraqis...

October 28, 2004 | Clifford D. May FrontPageMagazine |

Symposium: Iraq: Fight or Flight?

Co-authored by: Jamie Glaznov, Greg Bates, David Lindorff and Jed Babbin. Where are we headed in Iraq? Is it crucial to stay and fight for victory, or, as some liberal-left crit...

June 24, 2004 | Grove City College Faculty Opinions

Post-Modern Terrorism

Authored by Dr. Earl Tilford World War IV is total war on a global scale. While numerous nations are arrayed against a myriad of terrorist organizations, the United States is at war with...