For this week’s podcast, we’re going to re-post our interview a year ago with Alisa Weinstein – the daughter of…
Warren Weinstein had been in Pakistan for some seven years, working with a contractor on local-scale economic development. Then four…
By David Francis, a freelance journalist who has been interviewing militant extremists across sub-Saharan Africa. The search for more than…
We don’t hear too much about al Qaeda these days, now that Osama bin Laden is dead. But perhaps that’s because what we have today is a much more dispersed, easy-to-miss phenomenon I call al Qaeda 2.0. Africa is where al Qaeda 2.0 is thriving.
Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq, on left, next to a burning police vehicle…
Analysis That’s the gist of a new report by Global Post, which says the links between local rebel movements in…