In the New Age of Cyber Warfare, Electric Grid is Tempting Target
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you. With Claudia Rosett, Amb. Roger Noriega, Stewart Baker, Gordon Chang...
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Houthis Want to Negotiate in Yemen but Still on Offensive
A senior Houthi official said this weekend that Yemen’s Iranian-backed Shiite rebels are willing to negotiate a peace with the...
Mullar Omar Bio Draws Subtle Distinctions with “Caliph” AbuBakr
The Taliban has published a new biography of Mullah Omar (link is to Taliban-controlled shahamat-english.com) which paints a hagiographic picture of the...
Kenya Strikes Back
Late Sunday night, April 5, 2015 through Monday morning, Kenya began launching attacks against Al Shabaab camps in Somalia. Kenya’s...
Carla Power’s “Accidental Feminist” Mohammad Akram Nadwi in His Own (Sharia Supremacist) Words on Women’s “Rights”/Hijab
I just listened to an NPR podcast touting a new book by journalist Carla Power, entitled, If Oceans Were Ink:...
A Look Ahead at Proliferation in the Middle East
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you. With Fred Fleitz, James O'Keefe, Bill Gertz, Riki Ellison FRED...
Palestinian Jihadi Group Clashes with Islamic State over Refugee Camp
On April 2, 2015, Palestinian fighters and Syrian rebels moved to retake a refugee camp in Syria’s capital of Damascus...
Who is ICNA- the Group tied to Islamic State-inspired Bomb Plotter?
News is breaking today that Noelle Velentzas, one of the two women indicted in New York City court for an alleged...
In Al Shabaab Old Relationships May Prevent New Allegiance, For A Time
On April 1, 2015, Zakariya Hersi, a former al-Shabaab intelligence official claimed that al-Shabaab’s relationship with al-Qaeda is disintegrating. In...
U.S. Counterterrorism Policy for the Road Ahead
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you. With Andrew Stiles, Daniel Greenfield, Rowan Scarborough, Jessica Vaughan ANDREW...
Securing the Grid Against More Than the Cyberthreat
On Capitol Hill, there are indications that Congress will take another crack at passing cybersecurity legislation in the next couple...
al Shabaab lays siege to Christian University in Kenya
A mass of al Shabaab gunmen raided Garissa University College campus around 5:30 AM local time Thursday morning. The two...
Sunni Jihadists Gain Ground in Syria
The al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front seized the provincial capital of Idlib in northwestern Syria this past weekend. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s...
Sectarian Battlegrounds in MENA
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you. With Amb. John Bolton, Walid Phares, Burak Bekdil, Joseph Schmitz...
U.S. Lifts Weapons Freeze to Egypt but with Major Change
President Obama called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday to inform him that the United States is lifting an...
al Shabaab Assassinates Ugandan Prosecutor of 2010 World Cup Bombing Case
Ugandan prosecutor Joan Kagezi was in her car with her children when men tailing her by motorcycle drove by and...