The two terrorist founders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden (L) and his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri, both now brought to justice by the US
Afghanistan and Iran after the assassination of Zawahiri
On August 2, US President Joe Biden announced...
A US soldier patrols with Afghan soldiers in the village of Yawez in Wardak province, Afghanistan, 17 February 2010 (credit: U.S. Army, Flickr).
The Afghanistan retreat: We may soon be recalling why we went there in the first place.
Fathom Journal – December 2021    Tzvi Fleischer...
Taliban military parade (screenshot)
The Taliban are losing the fight against Islamic State
The Strategist –  6 December 2021  In what...
The 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 occasioned many reflections on not only what happened on that day, but also what has happened since and where the world can go from here. (Photo: Flickr | Creator: Picasa 2.0)
Selected analysis from the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
Update from AIJAC   09/21 #02 The twentieth...
After 20 years, is the US back to Sept. 10, 2001 in terms of understanding the terrorism threat? (Credit: Shutterstock)
9/11 anniversaries tell a tale
On the first anniversary of the Sept. 11,...
The Afghanistan-based Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (source: Wikimedia Commons)
How Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban increases the global terrorism threat
The Strategist – 6 September 2021   The...
With the Taliban now in control of the vast majority of Afghanistan, the world needs to swiftly deprive them, and allies such as al-Qaeda, of the resources needed to carry out external attacks (Image: Naeblys, Shutterstock)
Confronting terrorism after the Afghanistan withdrawal
Update from AIJAC   09/21 #01 This Update...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his intelligence chief Hakan Fidan meet with Hamas leadership, including US Specially Designated Global Terrorist Saleh al-Arouri, in Turkey, August 2020 (credit: Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)
Turkish conference underlines growing role of Ankara as key driver of global Islamist extremism
The Turkish government’s decision to co-sponsor an “academic conference” in...
Australian soldiers (L-R) Corporal Amanda Wright, Corporal Cindy Veenman and Captain Karin Cann at Multinational Base Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, 2010 (credit: SGT Mick Davis)
Afghanistan withdrawal will increase terror threat to Australia
Originally published in The Strategist (ASPI) – 14...
Australian Federal Police arrest Ahmed Talib in Melbourne on March 25. Photo: Supplied/AFP
Mavi Marmara passenger arrested on terrorist charges
A Melbourne man arrested in March for alleged...
Al-Qaeda No. 2 Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, better known as Abu Muhammad al-Masri
Scribblings: Al-Qaeda in Iran
  On Nov. 13 the New York Times...
Omar al-Bashir (Photo credit: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/REUTERS)
Three decades of terror, racism and genocide come to an end in Sudan. But what comes next?
On April 11, Omar al-Bashir’s three decade reign...
Load More loader