A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing
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Wahhabism
Saudi King Salman’s Audacious Power Play
“You deserve more.” That’s what Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman tweeted to his peopl...
Op-eds
King Salman’s Shady History
President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is Ki...
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Iran’s Greatest Fear: “American Islam”
The Islamic State rages next door and the U.S. Congress is threatening new sanction...
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Sandstorm
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
Op-eds
Boosting Turkey As It Backs Terror
Turkey’s lax border policies have enabled ISIS to finance and arm its fighters in Syria; ISIS cells are now operating throughout Turkey. And Turkey also helped Iran, a state sponso...
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Keep Your Frenemies List Short and Your Enemies List Shorter
... Of course, international relations have never been a simple matter of sorting other nations and groups into friends or enemies, as Daveed Garte...
Op-eds
A Muslim Identity Crisis
The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the inde...
Op-eds
When America’s Enemies Are Also Its Friends
President Obama’s May 28 commencement address at...
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Frenemies
Less than a generation after World War II, in the midst of a cold war whose outcome was far from certain, John F. Kennedy famously proclaimed that Americans would “support any friend, oppos...
Op-eds
Saudi Clerics Endorse Jihadists in Syria
A group of 72 preachers and religious scholars from Saudi Arabia published a petition yesterday endorsing the Islamic Front in Syria. The Islam...
Policy Briefs
Iran Through Saudi Eyes
The Saudis have a point. Those words do not flow easily from my pen. For more than three decades, the Arabian royals have spent billions of petro-dollars promoting Wahhabism, a poisonously anti-W...
Op-eds
Why Did Saudi Arabia Snub the U.S.?
There were some precursors over the last several months to Saudi Arabia’s decision today to ...
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The Muddle East
If Congress refuses to support American military action against the Assad regime in Syria, and President Barack Obama declines to strike or strikes meekly, will American power—that marriage...
Op-eds
The Great Collision
For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...
Op-eds
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Amman, Jordan — American boots are on the ground here in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Nearly 5,000 U.S. military personnel joined Jordanian troops for “Eager Lion,”...
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Is Obama a Berliner?
BERLIN — Obama: Ist er ein Berliner? The German weekly Die Zeit posed this question...
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Radioactive Regime
The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...
Op-eds
ISAF Captures Senior Lashkar-e-Taiba Leader in Ghazni
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured a senior leader from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba during a raid today in the southeastern Afghan province of Ghazni. Additionally, sp...