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Graphic Novel Urges Western Muslim Youth to Join Jabhat al-Nusra
In the annals of jihadi groups, the story is an old one: A disaffected Muslim youth returns to Islam, reconnects with his faith, finds himself outraged at the injustices done to his brothers abroad,...
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How a CIA Officer Wanted for Kidnapping in Italy Ended Up Arrested in Panama
On Wednesday, the story of Robert Seldon Lady, a former CIA station chief in Milan, Italy, took another improbable turn when he was arrested in Panama near the Costa Rican border. Lady has been living...
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Israel Accused of Suppressing Terror Evidence to Help Out New Pal China
Israel is a country desperate for friends. Isolated in the Middle East and hated in large parts of the Arab world, it struggles to make alliances. The few it has, it guards fiercely. So it should...
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Assassination and Protests Rock Tunisia
As Egypt braces for a day of rival protests tomorrow, Tunisia was also plunged into turmoil today with the assassination of secular politician Mohamed Brahmi, the head of the country's Constituent...
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Jailbreak Season Continues as al Qaeda Issues Threat Against Gitmo
It's officially jailbreak season. In a little over a week, inmates in Iraq, Libya, and now Pakistan have escaped from what were supposed to be secure prisons (the phenomenon has even reached...
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'Defeated' al Qaeda Experiencing a 'Renaissance'
Think fast: Is al Qaeda defeated? Is it stronger than ever? Or is it both? Not sure? You're in good company. Terrorism analysts can't decide either, and the threat of an attack by al Qaeda in the...
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This Is the 8th Time al Qaeda in Yemen Has Threatened U.S. Embassies
As new details have emerged about the terrorist threat that forced the closure of 19 U.S. diplomatic posts and the evacuation of American and British personnel from Yemen, officials have...
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Even Yemeni Government Spokesman Finds Foiled Plot Hard to Believe
Even the spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, D.C. is having a hard time believing a plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that the Yemeni government says it foiled. Several news...
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Al Qaeda-Trained Terrorists in New Zealand, Prime Minister Says
Earlier this month, as the United States rushed to shutter embassies in response to a terrorist threat, New Zealand's prime minister made a remarkable but largely overlooked assertion. According to...
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Why Are We So Fascinated by What Gitmo Prisoners Are Reading?
The latest controversy over the American prison at Guantánamo Bay stems from an improbable source: the wildly popular erotic novelFifty Shades of Grey -- and specifically whether it has become a...
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France's President Has a 'Mission Accomplished' Moment in Mali
As French President François Hollande spoke at the inauguration of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Mali's first elected president since the country's unrest began in March 2012 with a coup, all that was...
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Meet the Jihadi Group That's Declared War on Syria's Moderate Rebels
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Just a few months ago, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) didn't officially exist. Now, the al Qaeda affiliate known colloquially as al-Dawla -- simply "the state" -- has...
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Russia Is Collecting Saliva from Muslim Women Because Terrorism
With less than a 100 days till the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia is really ramping up its security -- in decidedly creepy ways. Russian officials are taking saliva samples from orthodox Muslim women...
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What the Russian Cossacks Have Against Little Girls in Hijabs
In Russia, big scary men with mustaches and sabers are feeling threatened by little girls wearing religious headwear. Local Cossack leaders in the city of Rostov in southern Russia were not happy...
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Don't Believe the Hype: Joseph Kony Isn't About to Surrender
If Michel Djotodia, the Central African Republic's rebel leader turned interim president, is to be believed, Joseph Kony, the head of the infamous Lord's Resistance Army, is about to emerge from the...
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Obama Advisor: 'Extremism' Could Be Key to Ending Syrian Civil War
For the past two and a half years, as the civil war in Syria has descended into brutal bloodletting and spilled over its borders, Obama administration officials have consistently decried the growing...
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Sochi Watch: Everything You Need to Know about Russia's Massive Olympic...
Just five weeks before the 2014 Winter Olympics kick off in Sochi, two bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd have highlighted security concerns in the volatile region, and drawn attention to the...
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan's 'Dirty Harry'
Karachi's famed police investigator, Chaudhry Aslam Khan, was a man for whom metaphors have been mixed. He was a divisive figure, sometimes called Karachi's "Dirty Harry" because of his controversial...
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How Did a German Man End Up Dead in a U.S. Drone Strike?
On Feb. 16, 2012 a missile launched from an American drone struck a pickup truck outside the city of Mir Ali in Pakistan's rugged tribal region. As many as 15 men died in the attack, which many...
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The Nine Lives of 'Russia's bin Laden'
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya, used an unorthodox method of announcing the purported death of Russia's number one terrorist: Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service...
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