Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)
Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...
Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...
AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
SARGODHA, Pakistan — Five young American Muslims detained in Pakistan wanted to join militants in the country's Taliban-ruled tribal region, bat...
Jordan Sekulow | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Democracy's 'War on Islam' is exactly the war Islamic terrorists have been hoping to ignite, and we must not let them succeed. It is time for peaceful, ordinary Muslim Americans to put their collective foot down.
Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver
Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hoo...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
nypost.com | Chuck Bennett | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
This jihadist wannabe is a "terror" on the road. Yousef al-Khattab is a Jewish-born, Jersey-raised convert to Islam who schleps tourists on his pedica...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...
AP | PAUL SCHEMM and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
CAIRO — Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new 106-minute long video predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world. ...
Alex Thurston | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
What kind of language should American bloggers use in writing on foreign affairs, particularly regarding combat zones like Afghanistan and Somalia?
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Good-minded people who see a need to teach tolerance and engage in civil discussion are cowed into submission by the shouters.
Michael Conniff | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
When Al Qaeda destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001--nearly eight years ago--most Americans, like President George...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.08.2009 | Comedy
"No missile has gotten anywhere near him," said Haikmullah Mehsud. "Like the rest of us, he has been highly frustrated by Twitter outages."
John Feffer | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
We have our suicide bombers -- we call them heroes. We have our culture of indoctrination -- we call it basic training. We kill civilians -- we call it collateral damage.
Alan Lurie | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
We need a willingness to openly examine divergent viewpoints, clearly determine the merits, and arrive at a more comprehensive view that sees the world in its infinite array of vivid colors.
William Bradley | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller is now casting doubt on the claim in her front page story today, pounced on by the right and quickly picked...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
When Obama expands the limits of dialogue, the first red line he must draw is against the poison of state-sanctioned bigotry that is spawning not only hatred but criminal violence.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
It has been nearly eight years since Al-Qaeda struck the United States on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of that transformational event, some ha...
Graham E. Fuller | Posted 06.10.2009 | World
Only moderate Islamists themselves can prevail over the radicals whose main source of legitimacy comes from inciting popular resistance against the external invader.
Huffington Post Contributor | Emi Foulk | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
by Emi Foulk The swelling power of the Taliban in Pakistan - or "Talibanistan," as The Nation so pithily put it - has caused much alarm amongst Ameri...
John Prendergast | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
Somalia has become the poster child for transnational threats emanating from Africa.
Times Of India | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
Abdullah laughs like any other 11-year-old, but he is no schoolboy. He is being touted as the world's youngest terrorist following his arrest. ...
Faiza Patel | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
Changing the terms of the discussion signals a willingness to shift the paradigm, and such a signal could well find a receptive audience.
Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
We must remember the Taliban is not a monolithic entity. It's worth attempting to separate the "accidental guerilla" from the "global jihadist."
The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books