US urges Pak, Afghanistan to work together against terrorism
The United States has urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to cooperate in order to curb extremism and terrorism from the region.The US State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau, in a press briefing, said that it will be premature to state anything regarding the attack on the American University in Kabul, however, it will be encouraging if Pakistan […]
Putin’s Savage War Against Russia’s ‘New Muslims’
This article was first published on the Wilson Center site. Today there are more than 2,000 fighters from Russia on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq fighting on behalf of the Islamic State. [i] A large number of these fighters are Muslims originating from the Northern Caucasus, a fact that feeds a narrative back in […]
Why Are We Still Wasting Billions on Homeland Security Projects That Don’t Make Us Safer?
This story was co-published with The Atlantic. The turbulent months after the 9/11 attacks were notable for something that did not happen. Even though al-Qaeda had killed thousands of people and scored a direct hit on the Pentagon, hardly anyone in either political party blamed the Bush Administration for failing to defend the homeland.
Soldiers kill 27 Boko Haram terrorists in Cameroon
Yaounde (dpa) – Soldiers killed 27 members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram and arrested ten others in northern Cameroon, the commander of a regional army force said Thursday. A Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) – set up by Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon to fight Boko Haram across borders – ambushed a group […]
A long-drawn war
The foreign sponsored terror in the country appears to have been the deadliest so far this year. The significant success of Zarb-e-Azb does not mean the war on terror is over. The country will have to fight both “homegrown and foreign sponsored” militancy for several years to come, and take sweeping steps on war-footing to […]
Prof. Michael Welton: A Culture of Fear and Hostility to the Muslim Other Prevails in Our World
TEHRAN (FNA)- The September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon buildings started a new chapter in the history of the US relations with the Muslim world, and hostility replaced dialog and cooperation between the two sides. The US government immediately accused “Islamic fundamentalists” of masterminding the terrorist attacks, and the then […]
US resisters to the Iraq War are now living undocumented in Canada
In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, many Americans fled north to Canada as conscientious objectors. A few were allowed to stay. Something similar happened during the Iraq War — except, the staying part is a little more complicated. Even though Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed early support for letting war resisters […]
US-led air strikes kill 21 civilians in Syria
At least 21 civilians have been killed in air strikes by US-led coalition planes against areas in Syria held by the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS), a monitoring group said. In Monday’s air strikes on the northern Syrian town of Manbij, 15 civilians were killed in the […]
Iraq War report shows West has lessons to learn
US President George W. Bush (L) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair walk together from their meeting at the US Embassy in Brussels in this February 22, 2005 file photo. [Photo/Agencies] Former UK prime minister Tony Blair was heavily criticized in the official report of the inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War, which said his […]
The Lie That Walks by Our Side: Growing ISIL Attacks a Sign of US War ‘Success’
TEHRAN (FNA)- We can’t say why American officials lie; they just do. They all have their own reasons for not telling the truth, particularly those at the State Department. On Saturday, July 2, for instance, the US Administration presented the ISIL attack in Baghdad that killed 215 people as something that only “bolstered” America’s resolve […]