Sinai: Atrophied development

Chechen Insurgency leader Doku Umarov (Source: Voice of Russia) With last weeks revelation that the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Jokhar Tsarnaev, were in fact ethnic Chechens, US journalists, analysts, law enforcement and the ...

William Dalrymple traces the ill-fated retreat of the 1842 British army from Afghanistan. Under the protection of a warlord whose ancestors helped throw out Dalrymple's, he found parallels to America's retreat. by William Dalrymple | ...

This past week Afghan and Coalition special operations forces conducted five raids targeting the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in northern Afghanistan. The five raids reflect a significant increase in raids targeting the terror ...

The Syrian regime has claimed that the majority of those it is fighting are foreigners, but the opposition insists that foreigners make up only a tiny fraction of its ranks, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus Six months after the start of the Syrian ...

How do you assess the performance of the National Salvation Front-The National Salvation Front (NSF) has succeeded in bringing the civil opposition parties under one umbrella, thus uniting opposition against the constitutional declaration made by ...

David Cameron has made a personal plea to Pakistan and Afghanistan to bury their differences as rising tensions threaten to sabotage efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table. Islamabad - The Prime Minister telephoned President Asif Ali ...

Afghan villager Ghulam Rasool sits in the yard of his house KHALIS FAMILY VILLAGE: Barely able to walk even with a cane, Ghulam Rasool says he padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and fled his mountain ...

Consider the case of Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar-nominated film from director Kathryn Bigelow about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The film began as a script about the Battle of Tora Bora. After bin Laden's death, the filmmakers changed course and, ...

A Taliban suicide assault team killed five Afghan policemen in an attack on a police headquarters in the eastern province of Nangarhar today. The Taliban claimed credit for the attack. The suicide assault team targeted the Quick Reaction Force ...