Friendless in the Middle East

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online November 8, 2011 The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding the suppression of ...

Assad: Western Intervention Will Cause an Earthquake

Syrian President Bashar Assad has warned the West of an “earthquake” across the Middle East if Western powers intervene in Syria. Speaking to the British Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Assad said ...

al Qaeda Delivers New Message from Bin-Laden Claiming Credit for “Arab Spring” Uprisings

He may be dead, but he won’t stop talking: Osama Bin Laden’s latest message, apparently recorded shortly before his death, was released by Al Qaeda on Tuesday, two days after the ...

Yemen’s Cabinet Convenes in Symbolic Snub: Will Not Surrender Country to al-Qaeda

In a sign Yemen’s ruling party has no intention of giving up power in the near future, the prime minister convened the Cabinet for the first time since the June ...

Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Yemen

Senior Al-Qaeda leader Ayed al-Shabwani was killed in fighting in Yemen this week, officials in Yemen announced Thursday. He had been on the government’s wanted list for some time. Shabwani ...

Al Qaeda Seizes Part of Southern Town in Yemen

Islamic terrorists in Yemen launched Wednesday a surprise dawn attack and seized parts of a southern town of Al-Hota after a street by street gunfight with government forces, the Associated ...

Obama Secretly Planning To Go Forth With a Fourth War

WASHINGTON — The Warlord Obama administration is starting another American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones ...

The Emptying of Yemen; Yemen Now Threatens the Outside World

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 7, 2011 For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal ...

“Arab Spring” – Misnomer for Middle East Upheavals

by Daniel Pipes May 31, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online “Arab Spring” has taken off as the default description of the turbulence in the Middle East over the past ...

Lieberman Asks Why World Ignores Syria and Interferes in Israel

Why does the world ignore dictators in Iran and Syria but interferes with democracy in Israel,  Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman  wondered out loud in his Independence Day remarks to members ...