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The Obama administration's political and legal authority to wage war against al-Qaeda has steadily eroded. Both liberal and conservative members of Congress have challenged the adm...(full article)

Yemenis are engaged in a unique and peaceful national dialogue — very different from Syria and Egypt and with about a third of the input coming from women -- to produce a new lea...(full article)

A bisected starfish isn't a dead starfish: It's now two starfish. (And a starfish cut into five pieces turns into five starfish!) In the world today, civilized societies are the f...(full article)

One of the most troubling aspects of recent developments in several Arab countries has been growing domestic polarization based on an interplay of ideology, religion and ethnicity....(full article)

Constitutional lawyers can argue until they are blue in the face whether there are legal justifications for using drones, and tacticians can similarly make the case for the relativ...(full article)

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Yemeni Citizen Tells of Fear Caused by Drones - Spencer Ackerman, DR

For the first time, the Senate heard from someone who lives in a village where U.S. drone strikes are believed to have killed civilians. Farea al-Muslimi, who was born in the mount...

Tom Friedman: Arab Spring's Biggest Daydreamer - George Jonas, NP

Like other pundits, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman can be right and he can be wrong. The difference between him and his peers is that being repeatedly wrong doesn’t ...

I am Slowly Dying in Guantanamo Bay - Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, NYT

One man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30...

America's Idleness Makes for Mideast Mess - Benny Avni, New York Post

For a sense of why the Middle East is sliding into a new dark night, look at Yemen — where everybody and his brother is meddling, while America mostly stays away....

Saudi-Yemen Ties in Need of Makeover - Faisal al Yafai, The National

Today, Saudi's GDP is 10 times that of Yemen's. Nasser died in 1970 and with him much of the pan-Arab revolutionary fervour he embodied. Political pluralism (such as it is) and uni...

Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror - Scott Shane, NY Times

Despite Mr. Brennan’s protestations, an overwhelming reliance on killing terrorism suspects, which began in the administration of George W. Bush, has defined the Obama years....

How a U.S. Citizen Got in America's Cross Hairs - New York Times

It was the culmination of years of painstaking intelligence work, intense deliberation by lawyers working for President Obama and turf fights between the Pentagon and the C.I.A., w...

Rand Paul a Distraction from the Real Drones Debate - Washington Post

The fact that his paranoid fantasies gained some traction is testimony to the administration’s real failures in managing its counterterrorism campaigns. Mr. Obama has chosen to c...

Yemen Has One More Year to Save Itself - Greg Johnsen, The National

Yemen is a broken country and no one - not the US, Saudi Arabia or any of the varied Yemeni factions - has the strength to put it back together again. Outsiders like the US are mor...

U.S. Counts the Cost of a Deadly Idea - Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Hld

America has developed a new dependency on armed drones, pilotless aircraft guided from afar that can rain instant death from unseen heights. They have been used to kill more than 1...

America's Unchecked Drone War - Rafia Zakaria, Al Jazeera

Under John Brennan's tenure at the CIA the skies over Pakistan, Somalia Yemen and probably several more newfound and yet undeclared foes will likely be full of American drones, fly...

Obama and the American Drone Awakening - Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed

A strange thing happened in America this week: The country started to show signs of outrage over the Obama administration's targeted killing program....

Should We Still Fear al-Qaeda? - Peter Bergen, CNN

If history is a guide, the jihadist militants, whether in Syria or elsewhere, are likely to repeat the mistakes and failures that their fellow militants have experienced during the...

Obama Cannot Hide from the World Stage - Boston Herald

The Cold War was a piece of cake compared to the world Obama and his soon-to-be reconstituted foreign policy team will face. And this from the man who wanted to negotiate directly ...

Does Obama Have a Mideast Plan? - Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy

This administration has not done a good job at laying out and then executing a strategic vision for the Middle East. Avoiding the worst outcomes and effectively managing crises whe...

The Year the Arab Spring Went Bad - F. Gregory Gause, Foreign Policy

In the heady days of (relatively) peaceful mass mobilizations that brought down dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, the mantra from American observers in 2011 was: "Now comes the hard ...

America's Failing Drone War in Yemen - Micah Zenko, CFR

In February, Eric Schmitt wrote in the New York Times about the Obama administration’s emerging Yemen strategy, whereby U.S. and Yemeni intelligence and military officials would...

Middle East, North Africa on the Brink - Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

The revolutions, conflagrations, and confrontations now underway from the Sahara to the Hindu Kush are weakening national governments and calling into question borders that have li...

America's Out-of-Control Drone War - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

What is worse? Locking somebody up for years, without trial, while you try to find proof he is a terrorist? Or killing somebody whose name you don’t even know because his pattern...

A Drone Strike on Democracy - James Joyner, NY Daily News

As a theoretical matter, remotely piloted vehicles are simply a tool of warfare, morally indistinguishable from manned aircraft. The more efficiently the U.S. can target and kill i...

The Jihadis of Yemen - Robert Worth, New York Review of Books

Yemen is an ancient country on the southern heel of the Arabian peninsula, the crucible of many of the peoples and customs we now think of as Arab. But to most Westerners, it is li...

Yemen Is Obama's Scariest Challenge - Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast

Obama will have to face the growing menace of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the failing state in Yemen that it thrives on. The response must be nimble and careful be...

Yemen: The Most Dangerous Country on Earth - Gregory Johnsen, FP

For the third year in a row, the U.S. set a new high in aid to Yemen -- this year it is $337 million -- and for the third year in a row AQAP set a new high with the number of fight...

Why Drones Were Left Out of U.S. Election - Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

The alternatives to drone strikes have costs. Ground operations would also cause civilian casualties and could put American troops at risk. Scaling back the drone strikes risks let...

America's Drone War Debate Just Beginning - The Economist

America uses drones a lot, in secret and largely unencumbered by declared rules. Worries about that abound, not least in the administration....

How America Looks from the Middle East - Riad Kahwaji, INEGMA

The U.S. Administration of President Barak Obama is about to complete its first term in office and is hoping to win another term in the upcoming elections on November 6. In previou...

This Is Not an Arab Revolution - Agha & Malley, NY Review of Books

Darkness descends upon the Arab world. Waste, death, and destruction attend a fight for a better life. Outsiders compete for influence and settle accounts. The peaceful demonstrati...

Is al-Qaeda Still a Threat to the U.S.? - Robert Worth, New York Times

The idea of attacking the United States, “the far enemy” in jihadist parlance, was always unpopular for many Islamic radicals, whose chief goal was replacing their own ...

Remote U.S. Base at Core of Secret Operations - Craig Whitlock, WaPo

Camp Lemonnier, a sun-baked Third World outpost established by the French Foreign Legion, began as a temporary staging ground for U.S. Marines looking for a foothold in the region ...

Al-Qaeda's Resurgence - Bruce Riedel, Yale Global

Last year on the day after US forces killed Osama bin Laden, the group he founded was seen by some as on its last legs. No more. While under siege by drones in Pakistan ...

The Arab Religious-Secular Balance - Rami Khouri, Daily Star

There are many ways in which one can analyze the current transformations across parts of the Arab world in the wave of populist revolutions that overthrew some dictators and still ...

Awlaki's Martyrs March On - Judith Miller, City Journal

According to the complaint filed in federal district court in New York, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, a student from Bangladesh arrested Wednesday and charged with tryin...

Militant Jihadists Rise in Arab World - Londono & Sly, Washington Post

From Egypt’s Sinai desert to eastern Libya and the battlegrounds of Syria’s civil war, the push for greater democracy made possible by revolts in the Middle East and North Afri...

In the Mideast, It's Not Just About Us - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

The worst message we can send right now to Middle Easterners is that their future is all bound up in what we do. It is not. The Arab-Muslim world has rarely been more complicated a...

Obama's Drone Dilemma - Eric Posner, Slate

The weakness of international law governing the use of military force goes back to the signing of the U.N. Charter in 1945. The founders understood that a simple rule prohibiting t...

Salafists Surge Across Arab World - Booth, Brulliard & Hauslohner, WaPo

The elections that followed the Arab uprisings elevated Islamists out of decades of repression and into the region’s most powerful posts. Here in Egypt, a former prisoner became ...

A Dangerous New World of Drones - Peter Bergen & Jennifer Rowland, CNN

Without an international framework governing the use of drone attacks, the United States is setting a dangerous precedent for other nations with its aggressive and secretive drone ...

The War That Nobody Wants - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

We are killing people in acts of war across Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa and expect to kill quite a few more. We are fighting a battle first to contain and then to defe...

Yemen Needs U.S. to Stay Engaged - K. Diener & V. Stanski, CS Monitor

Spurred by reports of an anti-Islam film originating in the United States – The Innocence of Muslims – that mocks the prophet Muhammad, tragic violence continued across the Mi...

A Salafist Trap in the Middle East - Fawaz Gerges, Yale Global

There's increasing evidence that the attacks against American diplomatic missions in the Arab world have more to do with internecine battles than anger against a sacrilegious film...

Why Is U.S. Surprised by Muslim Backlash? - Seumas Milne, The Guardian

Since launching the war on terror, the US and its allies have attacked and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq; bombed Libya; killed thousands in drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Som...

Muslim Rage & the Last Gasp of Islamic Hate - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Newsweek

Until recently, it was completely justifiable to feel sorry for the masses in Libya because they suffered under the thumb of a cruel dictator. But now they are no longer subjec...

From Gaddafi to Benghazi - George Friedman, Stratfor

That Gaddafi was capable of mass murder was certainly correct. The idea that Gaddafi would quickly fall proved incorrect. That a democracy would emerge as a result of the interven...

Who's Pulling Strings in Muslim Protests? - Hassan Hassan, The National

I knew Abdulsalam Minhibbak for the majority of my English language studies at the British Council in Damascus, between 2004 and 2006. A middle-class young man from the Syrian ca...

Time for U.S. to Come Home from Mideast? - Pat Buchanan, AmConMag

The Middle East appears to be undergoing a sectarian and tribal conflict not unlike our Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648. As they stayed out of our Thirty Years' War, let us get...

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