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Al Qaeda

Commentary

Gone and Forgotten?

Mark N. Katz, May 2, 2012

One year ago, on May 2, 2011, the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 unit killed al-Qaeda leader Osama ...

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Commentary

Instability in Yemen as ex-Regime Loyalists Purged

Middle East In Focus, April 9, 2012

Over a month after the departure of the country’s long-ruling ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s new leader, Abed Rabbo ...

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Commentary

Middle Eastern Perspectives on 9/11

Middle East In Focus, September 9, 2011

Ten years since that fateful day in September, commentators and editorials have begun reflecting on the significance of ...

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Journal Essay

Drone Warfare: Blowback from the New American Way of War

Leila Hudson, Colin S. Owens, Matt Flannes, Fall 2010

Targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, has become the central element of U.S. counterterror operations ...

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Journal Essay

The Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Summer 2010

Accelerating processes of globalization and cross-border flows of information, communication, militants, money and matériel are reconfiguring the geopolitics of insecurity ...

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Speech

After Abbottabad: Islam and the West

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), May 16, 2011

It’s an honor to open this conference on dialogue between Islam and the West. It is entirely fitting that ...

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