Al-Shabab Threat Against Mall of America Could Be a Call to Action
An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and Afghanistan on terrorism, national security, the geopolitics of energy, global economics, and the European financial crisis. His work. Seth Jones.
The Great Drone Contradiction
The first camp contended that the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which provides principles to limit the proliferation of ballistic missiles and other unmanned delivery systems that could be used for chemical, biological, and nuclear attacks.
US Court Finds Palestinian Groups Liable for Attacks in Israel
U.S. Court Finds Palestinian Groups Liable for Attacks in Israel �� | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas.. They killed 33 people, including several U.S. citizens, and wounded more than 450 others.. The raids came amid fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamic State militants in the area.. Max Abrahms, a political-science professor and terrorism specialist at Northeastern University, suspects the number is lower than many people believe.
The U.S. Is Providing Air Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq.
Our Magazine Archive. Current Issue... American warplanes have begun bombing the Islamic State-held Iraqi city of Tikrit in order to bail out the embattled, stalled ground campaign launched by Baghdad and Tehran two weeks ago... Corps-Quds Force (IRGC) ��� a U.S.-designated terrorist entity ��� has been accused by the Syrian Network for Human Rights and the Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights, of ���[burning] at least 81 people to death, including 46 civilians;��.
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By David FrancisDavid Francis is a staff writer for Foreign Policy, where he runs the widely-read Situation Report morning email and oversees FPs breaking news blog, The Cable. An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe.
The French Colonialists Comeuppance
November/December Foreign Policy Magazine cover. Get FP All Access... By Gordon AdamsGordon Adams is a Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University and a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center.
The Long, Slow Fuse of Jihad in France | Foreign Policy
Cherif, 32, apparently started down the path toward Wednesdays attack against Charlie Hebdo at least a decade ago, when he joined a Parisian jihadi outfit known as the 19th Arrondissement Network. Based in a. Zarqawis death from an American airstrike in 2006 would eventually lead to the rise of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who as self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State has turned that once-unknown terror outfit into a regional rival of al Qaeda and its affiliates.
Obamas drone war has actually not gone far enough |
An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and Afghanistan on terrorism, national security, the geopolitics of energy, global economics, and the European financial crisis.. studies from Simon Fraser University and an MA from the University of Glasgow. He has lived in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine, where he reported on drug trafficking, environmental degradation, and the Eurasian Union. | 15 hours ago��.
Who Needs the Department of Homeland Security Anyway?
Forged in 2002 in the panicked aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the department remains the source of the least cost-effective spending in the federal government. Many outside DHS view it as a superfluous layer of bureaucracy in the fight against.
The Best of Saturday Night Lives Foreign-Policy Skits
The weeks and months after the 9/11 attacks were touchy even for SNL, and it took some time before they were ready to dive into the heart-wrenching material. As usual, however, the show addressed the subject head-on, including with Will Ferrells.
US Court Finds Palestinian Groups Liable for Attacks in Israel
Islamic State militants seized a number of Assyrian Christian villages in the northeastern Syrian Hassakeh province Monday, kidnapping dozens of people. According to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 90 people were.
Afghan Talibans changing makeup permits expansion; Sri.
Afghan Talibans changing makeup permits expansion; Sri Lankan President meets Modi; Suicide attack in Lahore kills at least 8 �� | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas.. One Day More �� John Hudson | 15 hours ago... A professor from Islamia University in Peshwar who is leading the review, Zahir Shah, said: ���Pakistan is an Islamic country, and nothing should be taught in our schoolbooks that [is] un-Islamic and against the ideology of Pakistan.
Obamas Forever War Starts Now
When President Barack Obama announced the start of a U.S.-led bombing campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State on Aug. 7, 2014 he did so on shaky legal footing and without congressional authorization. Now, six months later, the White House has.
Jack Cashills Deconstructing Obama Argues Bill Ayers Wrote
His 2004 documentary Mega Fix added the Oklahoma City bombing and the Atlanta Olympics bombing to the plot, claiming Clintons coverups of all of the above contributed to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Cashills books, none of��.
Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: 04/01 Links Pt2: Americas.
The men are linked to Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three Islamist terrorists who perpetrated the attacks, an official in the prosecutors office said. Coulibaly killed a police officer in the Paris suburb of Montrouge and four people��.
France Is an Unequal Opportunity Offender
7 Charlie Hebdo attack. Demonstrators gathered at Place de la R��publique that evening, coining slogans that would soon grow into rallying cries. ���We are all Charlie!��� they chanted. ���Ink should flow, not blood.��� After a three-day terror spree that.
Think Islamists are the only religious terrorists? Meet some.
On 15 May 1948.. combined invasion by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine. immediately attacked Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements... 2015.01.11 Kenya Mombasa 1 0 Terrorists kill a priest during a church service... Still find myself in good company though or are Abdel Fatah el-Sisi or the Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, the seat of Sunni Islam, calling for the reform of Islam, just like me and Geertje Wilders islamophobes too ?
Today, Tunisia Is Tested | Foreign Policy
Today, Tunisia Is Tested �� | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas.. across the globe). Exclusive subscriber-only blogs, articles, and features; Much more!... Today, gunmen stormed the National Bardo Museum of Tunis, killing 21 and briefly taking several hostages.. The countrys citizens have not seen, until today, any serious terrorist attacks against civilians (though there have been assassinations and attacks on soldiers and military officials).
Europe Cracks Down | Foreign Policy
Since the Charlie Hebdo attack, European governments have moved swiftly to roll up terrorist operatives who were already on their radar, with more than a dozen arrests since Thursday, Jan. 15. In response to this escalating��.
The Pakistani Talibans War on Education, by the Numbers.
Teachers have also been targeted, with at least 15 killed between 2009 and 2012. Several teachers have also been attacked with acid. Since then, attacks on teachers have continued, with three gunned down and killed in��.
Mask of Zion: 26/11: Mossad Terrorizes Mumbai
Nearly 200 people dead. Well over 300 others injured. Media accounts flowed like rivers from all parts of the globe, revealing that a ragtag group of Islamic extremists had struck fear into the hearts of innocents once again.. As is the case with any other terror attack that is carried out by Mossad and despicably and falsely attributed to Muslims, the 26/11 false flag served the interests of the illegitimate Israeli entity and the Zionist-occupied United States government;��.
Pregnant and Desperate in Evangelical Brazil
Her gruesome death hit the headlines, soon followed by that of Elizangela Barbosa, who was dragged into the street, bleeding profusely, after a botched abortion. A passing motorist took her to the hospital, where she died. There, doctors found plastic.
Greece Should Not Give In to Germanys Bullying
November/December Foreign Policy Magazine cover... Last but not least, Syriza wants to genuinely reform the economy, with the help of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), notably by tackling the corrupt, clientelist.
Islam Will Not Have Its Own Reformation | Foreign Policy
But before western observers start applying lessons of European history to the Muslim world, a little self-reflection is in order. Wasnt the Reformation an attack on the Catholic Church? Didnt Martin Luther, the man who began��.
FPs Situation Report: Russia warns Ukraine about peacekeepers; Syrian rebel.
The Syrian rebel force that will confront the Islamic State begins to take shape. The United States has tapped some 1,200 opposition fighters that could take part in the U.S.-backed military offensive against the terror group. Its the first step.
The Islamic World Versus the Islamic State
By Thomas StackpoleThomas Stackpole is an assistant editor at Foreign Policy. A native of Marthas Vineyard, MA, he received his bachelors degree in Political Theory from Bates College, and studied at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. Previously, he .
Afghan Talibans changing makeup permits expansion
On Monday, at least 13 policemen were killed in a clash with militants in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province when the police were attempting to defuse an ammunitions cache recovered that evening (Pajhwok).. Modi vowed to protect all.
Myths and falsehoods about Barack Obama | Research.
Barack Obama (D-IL) has been the target of attacks, smears, and innuendo throughout the media. He has been called a Muslim who attended a madrassa and has heard his Christian church in Chicago accused of having a separatist doctrine that contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity; he has been accused of lying. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), discovered that Obama spent at least four years in a so-called Madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia.
Ten Recommendations for Obamas CVE Summit
November/December Foreign Policy Magazine cover.. When people systematically kill others, especially civilians, the least pertinent issue on the table is religion ��� even when its used to justify such acts.. Part of Camerons knee-jerk.
Islam Is Not a Country | Foreign Policy
PARIS ��� A few hours after Wednesdays terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, it was French Muslims who suffered retaliation at the hands of Islamophobes who blamed the entire religion for the massacre.. launched the attack that killed 12 people, including magazine staffers and two police officers ��� were caught in a standoff early Friday with French security forces, after taking at least one hostage in a printing facility northeast of Paris. At the��.
Spare a Thought for Those Who Are Not Charlie | Foreign.
Or maybe its because I just dont think Charlie Hebdo is a particularly good magazine, and its a little irksome to see it hailed suddenly as the flower of Western civilization (particularly by thousands of pundits whove never read it and. This is to say: Its a nasty world out there, and if youre fortunate enough not to live in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, or Syria, where 60 percent of all terrorist attacks occur, Muslim extremist terrorism probably should not be the��.
Spare a Thought for Those Who Are Not Charlie
Or maybe its because I just dont think Charlie Hebdo is a particularly good magazine, and its a little irksome to see it hailed suddenly as the flower of Western civilization (particularly by thousands of pundits whove never read it and likely.