Just when things didn’t seem to get much worse in Yemen—which sits along a key shipping lane for oil tankers—the civil war there has given room for al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the country to take control of multiple major facilities in…
It was a subtle move last week, the US agreeing to send less than a dozen Apache attack helicopters to Egypt. Less subtle, but still quiet, was the American dismay at the alliance between the so-called “moderate” Palestinians in the…
The Butterfly Effect builds off of the theory that if a butterfly flaps its wings, the impact of its action ultimately can impact a hurricane many miles away. In short, it argues that the world is interconnected and even small…
The ongoing battle between Egyptian security forces and terrorists in the Sinai region escalated on Sunday, as a tourist bus was targeted in a blast that killed four. Ahram Online reported that 14 people were injured in the attack, while…
There’s something rotten in the Strip of Gaza, and it’s about to get even worse. If you’re a terrorist there, anyway. In a crazy change of circumstances and politics, the Hamas organization is now on its heels and there just…
There’s a rising threat in Iraq, and it has designs on not only taking Iraq’s capital, not only on establishing a new extremist Islamic kingdom from Iraq to Lebanon, but ultimately on attacking Americans as well. The Islamic State of…