Tag: Al Qaeda

Snatching Failure From Victory In Afghanistan

Frederick W. Kagan · April 22, 2014 3:38 pm

Yemen says strikes on al-Qaida base kill 55

Yemen says strikes on al-Qaida base kill 55

Ahmed AlHaj · April 21, 2014 8:54 pm

People gather near a destroyed car that was carrying militants in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Yemeni military official says an American drone strike has killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and inadvertently killed and wounded some civilians. (AP Photo/Nasir al-Sanna'a)

National Security

Yemen: Airstrike targets al-Qaida training camps

Ahmed AlHaj · April 20, 2014 6:02 pm

This Monday, April 14, 2014 photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government soldiers gathering outside a damaged hotel that Syrian rebels had been using, in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Syrian government troops seized two villages, one of them an ancient Christian hamlet, north of Damascus on Monday, as part of the military's relentless offensive along the rugged frontier with Lebanon, state media and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

National Security

Syrian state TV: 14 killed in car bombing in Homs

MAAMOUN YOUSSEFZEINA KARAM · April 18, 2014 5:41 pm

Maulana Abdul Aziz, head cleric of a Pakistani seminary, sits in a library named after slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Friday, April 18, 2014 in Islamabad, Pakistan. A controversial Pakistani cleric who runs an Islamic seminary for girls in the capital of Islamabad has named the school's newly built library in honor of Osama bin Laden, his spokesman and a school administrator said Friday. Notices read instructions about library rules. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan library named ‘bin Laden’ as memory fades

Munir Ahmed · April 18, 2014 2:56 pm

John McCain: Obama lets ‘bad people’ fill U.S. void, says Jimmy Carter was better

Washington Secrets

John McCain: Obama lets ‘bad people’ fill U.S. void, says Jimmy Carter was better

Paul Bedard · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

‘Core’ Al Qaeda Gathering in Yemen

Thomas Joscelyn · April 16, 2014 2:42 pm

Shot in Yemen, the video shows Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda globally and the chief of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, out in the open, greeting other members with kisses and handshakes. Â (Screenshot from the video)

State Department: Hard to discern al Qaeda strength from ‘one video’

Susan Crabtree · April 16, 2014 4:00 am

‘Grading the Administration’s Counterterrorism Policy’

‘Grading the Administration’s Counterterrorism Policy’

Daniel Halper · April 10, 2014 1:17 pm

5 soldiers killed in attack on army post in Yemen

5 soldiers killed in attack on army post in Yemen

Ahmed AlHaj · April 4, 2014 3:09 pm

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Obama administration over drone strikes

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Obama administration over drone strikes

Washington Examiner · April 4, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Mike McCaul: Soldiers should be able to carry on base

Red Alert Politics

Rep. Mike McCaul: Soldiers should be able to carry on base

Melissa Quinn · April 3, 2014 4:01 am