Suri's passionate and rather contrarian personality makes him a fascinating subject of study but so, too, does the sheer breadth of his jihadi career. The Hama massacre of February 1982, in which Syrian forces leveled a large area of the city in response to the Brotherhood's uprising, prompted Suri to reassess where and how he would wage jihad.
As protests continue on the streets of Tunisia, U.S. policymakers are weighing their response to the crisis, seeking to chart a course supportive of demands for democratic reform without sacrificing other U.S. goals - or allies - in the region. The Tunisian army fired warning shots over the heads of demonstrators outside the headquarters of the long-ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party in the capital, Tunis, on Thursday, as the Cabinet of the country's new unity government met for the first time.
By March 2004, the US military was unable to run a patrol within al-Falluja without being attacked within thirty minutes. [...] the military was largely evicted from the city, primarily because of its own brutal tactics against the civilian population.
Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghrib (AQIM) was founded in 2007 as the latest offshoot of the global jihad. But it is deeply rooted in a long and complex history of Algerian violence, with the "Afghan" volunteers in the 1980s, the civil war raging in the 1990s, and the more recent crisis of the jihadi networks. Despite all its global rhetoric, AQIM has not fully transcended its local dynamics, between its Kabylia strongholds and its Saharan groups.
Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, Ending the US War in Afghanistan addresses the human and economic costs of the war, the history of US-Taliban relations, the military and diplomatic roles of NATO and the UN, and, perhaps most importantly, policy choices which would prevent future Afghanistan-style quagmires. Arguing that Iran's hostility with the United States remains the major causal factor for its proliferation activities, Khan explains that states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons depends on their engagements in protracted conflicts and that the presence of nuclear rivals intensifies nuclear ambition. [...] Khan concludes that both regional and global threats to Iran need to disappear before Tehran will abandon its ambitious nuclear program. Part history an...
This article explores al-Qa'ida's concept of a sacred geography, focusing on the idea of "ribat" - maintaining watch on the frontier to defend Islam. Beginning in Afghanistan, fundamentalists have re-adopted this term from the hadith to characterize their struggle with the West, from al-Andalus to Palestine to Chechnya to Iraq. The implications for US policy are enormous, especially as it operates within the perceived Islamic patrimony. An understanding of ribat also helps explain why al-Qa'ida had no significant presence in Iraq prior to March 2003 but would soon thereafter.
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