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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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Journal Essay

The Caucasus Emirate: Genealogy of an Islamist Insurgency

Emil Souleimanov, Winter 2010

Recent years have seen a series of massive terrorist attacks in Russia, serving as a reminder that on the southwestern ...

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Commentary

Afghanistan Ten Years Later

Middle East In Focus, October 12, 2011

The tenth anniversary of the beginning of US military action in Afghanistan has provided an opportunity for looking ...

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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

Yemen: A Social Intifada in a Republic of Sheikhs

Khaled Fattah, Fall 2010

More than six months after the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, caught the scent of the "Jasmine revolution," Yemen ...

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Journal Essay

Protecting Jihad: The Sharia Council of the Minbar al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad

Joas Wagemakers, Summer 2010

Throughout the past two decades, various radical Islamist groups in the Middle East have sometimes used extreme forms of violence ...

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