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A terror group too brutal for al Qaeda?
When even al Qaeda publicly rejects you because you are too brutal, it's likely a reasonable indicator that you are. A long simmering dispute betwe...
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Sharia Strategy: Rule of Law Replacing the State
Young and entrepreneurial, the Nusra Front is distinguishing itself among jihadis in pushing both for a coalitionist approach to the Syrian power v...
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NSA and your phone records: What should Obama do?
On Friday President Obama will address the nation about the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. He is expected to announce some substantive ...
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Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorists?
On June 5, 2013, the Guardian broke the first story in what would become a flood of revelations regarding the extent and nature of the NSA’s survei...
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Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever in Middle East
From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles a...
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U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan
This U.S. military presence in Afghanistan doesn't have to be a large, nor does it need to play a combat role, but U.S. troops should remain in Afg...
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Would NSA surveillance have stopped 9/11 plot?
The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future...
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Is al Qaeda outdoing the U.S. on truth telling?
Yet, in Yemen where the U.S. has been fighting a small, undeclared war for the past four years, we have now arrived at the ironic point where Ameri...
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The Weekly Wonk: Karzai's Dangerous Game
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is refusing to sign the U.S. peace agreement that outlines the terms of our 2014 withdrawal. What's he thinking – and...
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Hyping the terror threat?
But is there any real reason to think that Americans are no safer than was the case a couple of years back? Not according to a study by the New Ame...
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Did Obama keep his drone promises?
On May 23, President Barack Obama gave a major speech at the National Defense University in Washington stating his intention to recalibrate his cou...
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Rapping for al Qaeda in Syria
In August, al Qaeda's propaganda arm released a video starring the German rapper Deso Dogg.
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Syrian war's brutality isn't going away
A gruesome snuff video that has garnered more than 180,000 views on YouTube underlines just how grim the Syrian conflict has become.
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Good thing U.S. terrorist hunters weren't furloughed
For the past five days the pirates had taken hostage Richard Phillips, the American captain of the Maersk Alabama container ship.President Barack O...
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Talking to the Taliban
The Afghanistan intervention shows why the U.S. must empathize with its adversaries
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, it leaves violence and uncertainty in its wake. The election of a new Afghan president gives some ...
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Talibanistan
The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But when we speak of "Afghanistan," we really mean a conflict ...
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. ...
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manusc...
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Pakistan: A Hard Country
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. Anatol Lieven, who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, ...
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The Longest War
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Ira...
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The Bin Ladens
An Arabian Family In the American Century
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family’s rise to po...