The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counterinsurgency war that, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse.

Al-Qaeda is spent as an ideological force in the Arab and Muslim world, so we might as well come out and say it, and, hopefully, act like it too.

Four key aspects of the second decade of the 21st century can be discerned: the rise of China; the (relative) decline of the United States; the expanding role of the

Many experts believe that provoking the West into attacking Muslim countries is precisely al-Qaeda’s strategy.

Al Manar Channel was the first media anywhere to carry Hezbollah’s condemnation of the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center.

Throughout the Arab and wider Muslim world ruling regimes are loathed by their masses (their streets).

The rapid introduction of full body scanners at airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children.

In the article, I criticized the Obama administration for cutting assistance to Egyptian NGOs. As I argue toward the end of the piece, civil society assistance has too often been

Sooner or later, like great imperial powers of the past, we, too, will find that the stress of fighting a continuous string of wars in distant lands in inhospitable climes

Obama’s initiatives in Iran and in the Afghan-Pakistan theatre of war -- together with the Arab-Israeli conflict -- are at the heart of the world crisis.