The administration must continue providing intelligence and counterterrorism aid to the Yemeni government while pushing forward with the use of "smart power" to directly appeal to its people.
By Carroll Bogert The news that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly trained to blow up a US airliner at al Qaeda camps in Yemen has drawn sudden att...
Taking out Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen in the recent past has not decreased the strength of the terrorist organization. But such strikes do feed into the extremists' narrative.
If you hold a passport from countries considered to be "state sponsors of terrorism" or "countries of interest," don't plan on making your connecting flight to your final destination inside the USA.
In view of Cheney's willfully inaccurate partisan attacks, he deserves to now be held accountable for the Yemeni Al Qaeda terror sanctuary he helped populate.
Thanks to a 23-year-old black man who deceptively looks like an innocent boy, African-Americans, Arabs and the Muslim Diaspora all have something in common. They are more easily viewed as terrorists, and there's no escaping it.
As food aid stamped with the World Food Programme's logo is shipped to Sudan, thousands of tons of wheat and rice are shipped out -- to Riyadh, Beijing and Seoul.
In covering personalities and events, Solomon suggests that societies that know how to take advantage of new ways of using water dominate their time, while those that fail to address water crises disintegrate.
One of the few serviceable democracies in the Middle East, Lebanon's government is elected along confessional lines. The President is always a Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni, and the Parliament Speaker a Shiite.
I would like to share a Christmas story that many people today do not know. The true story of how the tale of Jesus and Mary saved the nascent religion of Islam from annihilation.
Will Copenhagen's near collapse and half-hearted outcome help or hinder the effort to repair our climate?
Who needs Ken when Burka Barbie can have Angry Bearded Muslim Man as her companion? (I want my share of royalties for that idea).
A recent string of suicides by foreign maids working in Lebanon is once again drawing attention to the rampant abuse of migrant domestic workers in th...
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Copenhagen SI Analysis: Representatives from 192 countries convene in Copenhagen for the UN climate confe...
In accepting the Nobel, Obama must spearhead a bold and unprecedented initiative aimed at one of the most pervasive human rights violations of the 21st century: violence against women and girls worldwide.
Today's most interesting Climate Change conversation may not be taking place in policy discussions in Copenhagen, but at the Power-Gen International conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
U.S. intelligence is poised to reap big rewards from Iran's continuing political turmoil. Already the CIA has harvested at least two important defect...
Now that you've submitted a five-point plan to the Jobs Summit (the "official" position of the labor movement), it is time to plan a return-trip to the White House for a less formal session with President Obama.
Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.
OPEC, in conspiring to hold back over 4 million barrels of oil a day from the market, is clearly colluding to impact oil's price. It is a willful policy seemingly tolerated by the U.S. government.
It probably wouldn't come as any surprise that men in Saudi Arabia are permitted to take as many as four wives. But did you know that a man can divo...
