The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there. That failure has given the CIA a new argument for wresting control of...
JABEL MUKABBER, Occupied East Jerusalem -- The Palestinian Prime Minister ventured into Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem bypassing Israeli security authorities who tried to stop him. The city's Israeli mayor, who also wanted to venture into the eastern of part of...
Kabul, Afghanistan - “We live in constant fear of suicide attacks,” said Laila, an Afghan woman who lives in Kandahar city and who visited with us yesterday. “When will the next one strike and where?” “Twelve days ago,” she continued, “a good friend was walking home...
A new report on violent extremists in the United States finds that terrorism plots by non-Muslims greatly outnumber those attempted by Muslims, and that Muslim-American communities helped foil close to a third of al-Qaeda-related terror plots threatening the country...
The grisly details continue to drip out. Five American soldiers have been accused of setting up "kills" and murdering innocent Afghans earlier this year, according to charges filed by the U.S. Army against them. But could some of the murders have been stopped earlier?...
By the time you read this, I'll be somewhere between Danbury, Connecticut, and Boston, probably on an Amtrak train wondering if I've missed my stop. I'm not a good traveler, as you might imagine: like all writers, I much prefer being in my study, researching my next...
Writing last week on Antiwar.com the redoubtable Phil Giraldi said: "The Israel connection is significant because Israel has long been at the heart of America's foreign policy woes. America's misguided war on terror is in fact a complete adoption of Israeli security...
