It’s time, a dozen years after September 11 and following Islamist coups in the Middle East, to rethink completely our view of al-Qaida… Continue reading
Malian newspaper l’Independant carried a front page news story stating that Mali’s Government released four AQIM detainees… Continue reading
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return, he never forgot his original objective: transforming Egypt into an Islamist state that upholds and enforces the totality of Sharia law, and that works towards the resurrection of a global caliphate… Continue reading
Is the resurgent of Al-Qaida in Iraq a result from the growing civil war in Syria… Continue reading
Anders Breivik, who went on a shooting spree in Norway last year, killing some 70 people, recently confessed his inspiration: al-Qaeda, the jihadists par excellence of the modern world… Continue reading
The murders in Toulouse should be a wake-up call for France and all of Europe… Continue reading
The French-born al Qaeda killer, Mohammed Merah, who shocked the world by murdering three Jewish schoolchildren and their teacher in Toulouse by shots to the head… Continue reading
The iron fist against “terrorist gangs” as promised by Bashar Assad got off to a fairly impressive start two weeks ago… Continue reading
As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on inconclusively, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Taliban insurgency is gaining ground… Continue reading
The security vacuum in northern Mali endangers the entire Sahel region, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz warns… Continue reading
Syria in 2009 continued political support to Palestinian terrorist groups… Continue reading
Islamism will be the dominant political force in Libya… Continue reading
According to multiple eyewitnesses one can now see both the Libyan rebel flag and the flag of al Qaeda fluttering atop… Continue reading
Ten years after September 11, 2001, when the very phrase “war on terrorism” is barred from U.S. government usage by the president… Continue reading
Israel had its first taste of a sophisticated al Qaeda-style coordinated terrorist operation modeled on the atrocities common in Afghanistan and Iraq… Continue reading
Egyptian forces descended on the Sinai Peninsula Sunday, Aug. 14, for their first post-Mubarak operation to retake control of the territory… Continue reading
European cities went on terror alert after the Norwegian prime minister’s office in Oslo was rocked Friday, July 22 by huge bomb explosions… Continue reading
Just your normal Middle East policy day in which every instinct the Obama administration has is wrong… Continue reading
On June 11, 2011 Somali police reported that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of Africa’s most wanted al-Qaeda operatives, was killed… Continue reading
For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world… Continue reading














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