Tag: Al Qaeda

Late last month, when the Guardian published a major 2,200-plus-word article exploring the history of urban terrorism, there was not a single mention of the many recent acts of terror experienced by Israelis. (screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

UK newspaper publishes major article on terrorism, omits Israel

Becket Adams · February 6, 2018 2:01 am

In this file photo provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on March 16, 2016, a Russian Su-25 ground attack jet takes off at Hemeimeem Air Base in Syria. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that an Su-25 jet was shot down in Syria by Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate of al Qaeda operating in the area. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian fighter jet shot down in Syria

Joel Gehrke · February 3, 2018 8:01 pm

Turkey has made military moves into the predominantly Kurdish region of Syria known as Afrin not to fight terrorism — because Afrin isn't a center of terrorism — but rather as part of its obsessive and unhinged campaign against Kurds. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Beltway Confidential

In Afrin, Turkey seeks ethnic cleansing, not terror eradication

Michael Rubin · January 27, 2018 12:00 am

All We Have to Do in Syria Is Prevent the Return of ISIS and Diminish Iran

Matthew R.J. Brodsky · January 24, 2018 9:48 am

U.N. funding must be guided by security realities on the ground, not on arbitrary calls from above. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

The UN is reformed and ready

Peter Yeo · January 24, 2018 5:01 am

Members of a television crew were arrested at Newark International Airport in New Jersey after TSA screeners discovered they brought in a fake improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Beltway Confidential

The Newark airport IED hoaxers are lucky they weren’t shot

Tom Rogan · January 19, 2018 7:53 pm

"We believe that a key part of combating extremism is preventing recruitment by disrupting the underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence. That's why we support a variety of counterspeech efforts," Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of product policy and counterterrorism said. (iStock by Getty Images)

Twitter, YouTube, Facebook describe battle against ‘terrorist content’ to Congress

Kelly Cohen · January 17, 2018 5:15 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is one of the few senators who appears to have forged a close relationship with President Trump and he has also been a key defender. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Does Trump know terror leaders’ names? Lindsey Graham says it doesn’t matter

Travis J. Tritten · January 17, 2018 4:54 pm

Bashar Assad and Russia are laying waste to civilian life. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

We must not ignore Bashar Assad’s ongoing atrocities

Tom Rogan · January 4, 2018 7:13 pm

If the Trump administration's newly released national security strategy is to govern U.S. national security and foreign policy, this long national and international nightmare may soon be over. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s national security strategy holds the hidden key to defeating jihadism

Ben Weingarten · January 4, 2018 5:01 am

On Monday, President Trump announced the U.S. would no longer be hampered by people's prioritization of wishful thinking over recognition of reality. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump restores realism with his national security strategy

E.J. Kimball · December 21, 2017 5:01 am

Turkey's oppression of its political opposition, its violence against the innocent, jailing of journalists and pastors, funding and support of jihadists, and evasion of sanctions against Iran are truly the actions of a terrorist state. (Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey’s Erdogan lashes out at Israel from his own glass house

Rep Robert Pittenger · December 21, 2017 5:01 am