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New Evidence of Pakistan's Role in the Mumbai Attacks?
Details are emerging about the Mumbai suspect arrested by Indian authorities last week.
June 28, 2012
What's Known about Syria's "Murky" Opposition
What began as a street uprising among united, angry Syrians has become a sprawling, scattered opposition force trying to bring down the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
June 22, 2012
Why Is Julian Assange Seeking Asylum in Ecuador?
The country isn't necessarily a haven for freedom of the press.
June 20, 2012
The Military's Plans for Drones at Home
With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq winding down, a recently released report from the Department of Defense offers new insight into the military's plans for its more than 1,800 drones it says are embedded across all four branches of the military.
June 19, 2012
Yemeni Army Recaptures Two Cities from Al Qaeda
Last year Al Qaeda and and its local affiliate in Yemen, Ansar al-Sharia, succeeded in doing something they had never been able to do before.
June 12, 2012
The Troubled History of Hama, Syria
The Syrian government has cut off U.N. observers from accessing the site of a reported mass killing that took place yesterday in a village outside Hama, Syria's fourth-largest city, where 30 years ago then-Syrian President Hafez al-Assad launched what’s known as one of the bloodiest chapters of modern Arab history.
June 7, 2012
You Aren't Hearing About Yemen's Biggest Problems
Every day headlines highlight Yemen's growing Al Qaeda threat, but some of the biggest threats to the country are largely absent from Western media.
June 7, 2012
Revisiting Tiananmen Square: "It Might Be A Parade Or Something"
This from a student in China when presented with the iconic image of the "tank man." A look back at how this photograph came to be, 23 years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square.
June 5, 2012
Spin City: Al Qaeda's New Image-Obsessed Media Wing
When Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and his director Safa al-Ahmed met up with their Al Qaeda contact Fouad in the southern Yemeni town of Ja'ar, they had their cameras ready. What they didn't expect was that Fouad -- a fighter and political officer with Al Qaeda's local franchise Ansar al Sharia -- would as well.
May 31, 2012
Study Suggests Yemen Strikes Are Radicalizing Population
The escalating campaign of U.S. air strikes targeting suspected Al Qaeda militants in Yemen has brought ”a marked radicalization of the local population” and is “driving tribesmen to join a network linked to terrorist plots against the United States,” according to a new study.
May 30, 2012