Tag: Al Qaeda

Speaking from Rome, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the U.S. will take “all necessary and proper steps” in response to the attack and subsequent hostage crisis in Algeria.  Panetta called it a “terrorist act” and said “it is

Al Qaeda operatives have attacked a natural gas facility operated by British Petroleum in Southern Algeria. A militant group has taken responsibility for the attack and claims it was retaliation for France’s operations against Malian rebels linked to Al Qaeda

The killing of Osama bin Laden was touted as the beginning of the end of Al Qaeda (the term “war on terror” having long since been abandoned). Yet as the nation’s capital prepares for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Al

France has expanded its assault on Islamists in northern Mali, pounding rebel positions with four days of air strikes and bringing additional troops into the country through the capital, Mali. France did not wait for UN approval, and it tired

After all the big talk about a red line for Syria concerning chemical weapons–talk which came from Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama–it appears the U.S. response to Basher al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons is inaction.  More than

On Monday, the Senate released its Special Report on the Terrorist Attack at Benghazi.  The report is not definitive; there is much information that has yet to be released and/or investigated, but there is one preeminent fact that pervades the

As I wrote on Dec. 9, while Obama was taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to Syria insurgents, those affiliated with Al Qaeda flooded the ranks of the Syrian opposition. Even supporters of the Free Syrian Army describe these men as “bandits”

Al Qaeda affiliates in the Syrian opposition continue to grow in strength and numbers. Members of al-Nursa Front, the offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, are not only filling ranks in the opposition but exploiting tensions to pull Sunnis to

Tunisian security forces arrested seven men for actively playing a role in the recruitment of Al Qaeda terrorists. The North African government claims to have completely dismantled the cell. TAP news agency, the official news agency of the Tunisian government,

Nearly three months to the day since her Sunday morning talk-show comments sealed her political doom, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice has yet to recant for blaming the Benghazi attacks on a YouTube video at a time when we already knew

Barack Obama and his Administration have now recognized the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the group of rebels against the Assad regime in Syria, saying that because they are now “inclusive enough”, they should be considered a legitimate representative of the Syrian

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly will leave the Obama administration as soon as a replacement is found. And who is reportedly topping the list of replacements? None other than Benghazi-tainted UN Ambassador Susan Rice. According to The Washington Post:

Syrian rebels with ties to Al Qaeda make up a growing portion of the Syrian opposition, thereby posing a serious problem for Obama administration officials formulating U.S. Syrian policy. The Al Qaeda-affiliated group filing ranks in the opposition is called

Boko Haram is a Nigerian-based terror group which actually brags of its ties to Al Qaeda. Since 2009, it has conducted a brutal and intense war against its own government which has involved the slaughter of Christians. It has also

Amnesty International is reporting that when Al Qaeda controlled a southern region of Yemen, the Abyan governorate, from February 2011 and June 2012, the terrorist organization committed “truly shocking” human rights abuses including crucifixions and the beheading of an alleged

A suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed his explosive-laden car into a checkpoint outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six people, police said. The attack took place at a police station outside the restive town of Bannu bordering the

A Jordanian terrorist plot uncovered and stopped in late October before it could be carried out is indicative of a resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq. The goal of the planned attack was to capture the U.S. Embassy in Jordan. The plan was

Speaking to an audience at Oxford University on Friday, the Pentagon’s top lawyer Jeh Johnson signaled the Obama administration may soon transition from handling terrorism as an act of war to handling it as a criminal matter. Johnson broached this

The United States must prepare for a time when it no longer is at war with Al-Qaeda and when sweeping legal powers ushered in after the September 11, 2001 attacks come to an end, the Pentagon’s top lawyer said. The