The Raja Suleiman Movement (RSM), a Philippine-based group with links to Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaeda affiliates both, has just been blacklisted by the Treasury Department. Today’s measure also marks the RSM’s leader, Ahmad Santos, as a Specially Designated…
By now, you might have assumed that conspiracy theories about the September 11th attacks had become a thing of the past, tall tales relegated to the margins of the blogosphere at best. You would be wrong, though. The latest such…
In today’s “Best of the Web” column, the Wall Street Journal‘s James Taranto highlights an interesting new study from Harvard University, which finds a direct correlation between critical media coverage of the war in Iraq and actual activity by insurgents…
To understand where Iran is heading, look at what its children are learning. That’s the message at the core of Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran’s Textbooks, a comprehensive new study that has just been released by Freedom House. The report…
Yesterday, while we were busy watching the Sunday talk shows, Russians were voting for their next president. To the surprise of practically no one, the victor has already been announced: Dmitri Medvedev, the Kremlin’s current First Deputy Prime Minister and…
It’s never a good sign when France takes a more robust stance on a particular foreign policy issue than we do. But that, apparently, is exactly the state of affairs when it comes to Iran. French Defense Minister Herve Morin,…
Another UN attempt at sanctions; another demonstration of Iranian defiance. The latest round of compromise sanctions squeaked out by the P5+1 (Russia, China, France, Great Britain, the United States and Germany) has not even been formally unveiled yet. But already,…
Apropos J.P.’s post, I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to Fred Cedoz’ excellent analysis of U.S. energy policy in The Journal of International Security Affairs. The piece may be a couple of years old, but it is still spot-on….
Well, that was quick. CNN is reporting that — after several weeks of comparative decline — attacks against American troops by bombs “believed linked to Iran” are again on the rise. According to General Petraeus, “EFPs have gone up, actually,…
Visiting Israel on the first part of his Middle East tour, President Bush is hitting all of the right notes. In his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem yesterday, Dubya took pains to stress that…