The Lessons of Libya
To have somewhat of an accurate prediction of what may occur in the aftermath of the Syrian crisis, one must...
Al Qaeda
al Qaeda, al Shabaab, and ISIS: Recruiting and Taking Ground
The recent interplay between al Shabaab and the African Union military mission in Somalia offers new data on the role...
Washington’s VICE: Supporting Islamists
VICE News recently produced a revealing documentary highlighting the Islamic Front, a coalition of Islamist Syrian rebels. Embedded with Tawhid...
The “Khorasan Group”, New Name, Old Threat
Recent media coverage has been bombarded by revelations of a "new terror threat", "more dangerous than ISIS", the Khorasan Group....
ISIS’s New Threat is Anything But New
In a new release on Sunday from chief propagandist of the Islamic State (or Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham), Shaykh...
Think Tank Close to Obama Misses Mark on ISIS Strategy
The Center for American Progress, a think tank close to the Obama Administration, recently released a strategy proposal on how to...
The Wages of Outreach…
The New York Post's Paul Sperry reported Sunday that the media director of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham...
Drawing the U.S. into Armageddon?
What if the Islamic State (IS) staged an Armageddon – and nobody came? With the savage videotaped beheading of a...
Shouldn’t fighting for ISIS disqualify you as a US Citizen?
Fox News is reporting that a second American citizen has been killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...
The Islamic Terror Orchestra
It has been 13 years since 9/11 and the West is still reluctant to link the non-ending parade of jihad...
Declare War on Shariah
The National Journal called earlier this week for the United States to “declare war on ISIS.” The magazine is right to argue...
Too Brutal-The Death of James Wright Foley
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), which claims the mantle of Islamic caliphate, has recent released a video...
Flynn is Right, Ideology is The Problem
LT. General Michael Flynn, outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency recently told an audience at the Aspen Institute that...
U.S. Rail Security and Terrorist Track Records
In response to renewed security concerns that al Qaeda is plotting to smuggle and detonate cell phone explosives on passenger aircraft bound...
Don’t Call It A Caliphate, Yet: ISIS May Run Afoul of Islamic Law
The news over the weekend that the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) had declared as Caliph of the...
More Wrong-Headed Criticism of the Targeted Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
On September 30, 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior official of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed by a U.S....