Al Qaeda Articles

Kurdistan achieved its independence last week but you may not yet have noticed it. It now has a separate domain in cyberspace – Krd. The next question is whether or when that can become a two-letter suffix with an independent Kurdistan flying its flag at the United...

The situation in Syria and the surrounding area is catastrophic. The numbers killed and maimed continues to climb. The United Nations now supports three-quarters of the country’s 20 million population. There are over 2.3 million refugees across Syria, Turkey, Lebanon,...

As the decade-long mission in Afghanistan comes to an end, now might be the time to start asking what the lessons are from the Nato mission for future humanitarian intervention efforts and specifically how important it is to have an exit plan for future mission...

This week's column below: In the week of the anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to reassert something important and to my mind, self-evident, but sadly politically contentious.  That is that the reaction to the 9/11 terrorist attacks by Tony Blair and George Bush was the...