Opinion: Did Obama Lose Interest in the Arab Spring?
The anti-Islamic film “Innocence of Muslims” last week sparked tensions in Benghazi, Libya in an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador, and has exploded into anti-American demonstrations all over the...
View ArticleMark Bowden on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Mark Bowden, chronicler of our military and special forces, gives the account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, he tells the story in The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin...
View ArticleAl Qaeda's Strength Extends to Syria and Beyond
The war against Al Qaeda has entered its 12th year, and some believe that the end is near.The Pentagon’s Chief lawyer Jeh Johnson addressed the Oxford Union Society a few weeks ago and announced that...
View ArticleKurt Eichenwald on the Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars
Kurt Eichenwald recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, looking closely at the decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the 18 months that changed the world forever, as leaders raced to protect their...
View ArticleThe Latest on Algeria
The New York Times'Adam Nossiter, who is reporting from Algiers, and Steven Erlanger, who is reporting from Paris, discuss the latest developments in Algeria, and France's ongoing involvement in its...
View ArticleThe Future of Al Qaeda
Over the last decade Al Qaeda has evolved into a complex and far-flung threat. We’ll speak with journalist Abdel Bari Atwan—who interviewed Bin Laden on two occasions—about the future of the...
View ArticleMuted Response to Trial of Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law
With a muted response, New Yorkers greeted the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a senior al-Qaeda leader and the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, who pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court in...
View ArticleInside Counterterrorism
Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the Counterterrorism Center at the CIA and of the national security branch of the FBI, current research fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About This Week's Terror Warnings
After an initial worldwide terror alert issued Friday, the State Department has now closed diplomatic posts in 19 North African and Middle Eastern countries. Karen Greenberg of Fordham's Center on...
View ArticleExtremists Capture Parts of Key Iraqi Cities
Sunni militants in Iraq have captured parts of two key cities in Anbar Province, one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in the Iraq War. Nearly a third of all the Americans killed in Iraq died fighting in...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda Aims to Inflame Sectarian Tensions
Al-Qaeda is remaking the map of the Middle East, or at least they want to.Anbar province has long been a center of Sunni Muslim insurgents, and is now becoming a base for Al-Qaeda's wider ambitions to...
View ArticleChecking in on the Downtown Terror Trial
Update 11am Wednesday: The jury has convicted Abu Ghaith. He could face life in prison on charges of conspiracy and aiding al Qaeda.The trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law,...
View ArticleToday's Takeaways: The GOP's Bruised Ego, Teacher Tenure on Shaky Ground, and...
1. Eric Cantor's Loss Strikes Nerve in GOP Leadership | 2. The Beginning of the End of Teacher Tenure? CA Judge Rules Against Teachers Unions | 3. How to Act Like a Real Soccer Fan for The World Cup |...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Offshoot Captures Iraq's Second Largest City
On Tuesday, an Al-Qaeda splinter group in Iraq raised their black flags above buildings across the city of Mosul as forces seized control of the nation's second largest city. The Iraqi military was...
View ArticleAs Violence Overcomes the Nation, Is Iraq Still America's Problem?
Everyone remembers the fall of Baghdad in 2003 after the massive U.S. invasion. But now we may be on the verge of seeing a second fall of Baghdad—only this time to Islamist forces are taking major...
View ArticleIraq Falls Apart
Islamic militants -- some with reported ties to Al Qaeda -- have taken over Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, and are making gains in other areas of the north. Ben Van Heuvelen, managing editor of the...
View ArticleChristiane Amanpour: This Might Be 'The End of Iraq as We Know It'
The world is facing a nightmare scenario in Iraq and across the Middle East, according to veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, and Kenneth Pollack, a...
View ArticleConfronting the Ghosts of a War Not Past
As Iraq continues to unravel, the United States has been forced to once more confront the ghosts of a war not-quite-past.The U.S. invasion of Iraq ultimately killed more than 4,000 members of the U.S....
View ArticleISIS: America's Next War?
In the nearly 13 years since the September 11th terrorist attacks, American foreign policy has focused on Al Qaeda, from its headquarters in Pakistan to its affiliates in the Arabian Peninsula and...
View ArticleExamining The Inner Workings of ISIS
The Iraqi military and American intelligence recently seized documents that tell us much more about the organizational structure of ISIS—where its leaders come from, and how they became involved with...
View ArticleFrom al Qaeda Insider to CIA Informant
Morten Storm, a six-foot-one, red-haired Dane, converted to Islam to find purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends...
View ArticleLuke Somers: What Went Wrong?
This weekend in Yemen, the United States military attempted to save American photojournalist Luke Somers, who was being held hostage by the terrorist group known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or...
View ArticleSouth Africa 'Devastated' by Al Qaeda Hostage Death
When a U.S. special forces mission to rescue photojournalist Luke Somers from Al Qaeda failed over the weekend in Yemen, U.S. officials reported that they knew nothing of the identity or details...
View ArticleFrench Terrorists Armed and Trained In Syria
The people of France are in mourning today after 12 individuals were killed by three gunmen at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.Paris was further unsettled Thursday morning after...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Origins of Terrorism
From the terrorist attacks in Paris to the men and women being recruited every day by militant groups like the Islamic State, how much do we understand about the origins of terrorism? What makes...
View Article9/11 Attorney Moves to Hold Saudi Arabia Accountable
Representatives from 60 countries are flooding the U.S. capital today for the White House's Summit on Countering Violent Extremism. The event will include three days of speeches, presentations, and...
View ArticleAl Shabab Terror Group Targets Students in Kenya
Al Shabab, a terror group affiliated with Al Qaeda that operates out of East Africa, has taken responsibility for an attack on students at a university in northeast Kenya, near the border with...
View ArticleU.S. May Lift Ban on Paying Ransoms for American Hostages
Last Thursday, President Obama broke the news that a U.S. drone strike killed two captives held by Al Qaeda: American Warren Weinstein and Italian national Giovanni Lo Porto were both killed in the...
View ArticleISIS or Al Qaeda: What's the Bigger Threat?
Click on the audio player above to hear this story.The United States budgets billions of dollars to fight terrorism, but those resources are finite—the government has to be strategic about where the...
View ArticleReflecting on 9/11, Assessing Today's Threats
Fourteen years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, what is the state of the threat of Islamic terrorism in the United States? Farah Pandith was the first ever Special Representative to Muslim...
View ArticleBehind the Mali Attacks
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Dozens are dead in Bamako after gunmen seized control of the Radisson Blu hotel and took over 100 hostages on Friday morning.Security forces have...
View ArticleA Larger Perspective of Islamic Militancy
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.While officials in Turkey continue to investigate the origins of an explosion that killed at least 10 in a tourist area in Istanbul, the...
View ArticleBloomberg Won't Risk a Run; How the Secret Service Serves Trump Rallies; A...
Coming up on today’s show:Mounting tension at Trump rallies has called into question the role of Secret Service officers at these events. Hear more from New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel, who’s been...
View ArticleU.S. Airstrikes in Somalia Kill 150 Militants
U.S. airstrikes in Somalia killed 150 fighters belonging to an Islamist militant group on Saturday, according to the Pentagon.It was the single most deadly attack on the Shabab group since America...
View ArticleHow a Journalist Witnessed the Birth of ISIS in Iraq
Australian journalist Michael Ware first arrived in Iraq in 2003 at the start of the war to cover a three-week assignment. He stayed for seven years and gained unprecedented access to footage that...
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An airliner lost, 66 people missing, and a hunt for clues
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: An airliner is lost with 66 people on board, setting off a frantic hunt for clues.As the day ended in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the fate of a...
View ArticleSyria: Trouble Lingers as Former Al Qaeda Affiliate Rebrands
Last week, the Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra formally cut ties with the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, which it has long been affiliated with. The rebranding under the name Jabhat Fateh al-Sham was...
View ArticleLawrence Wright Traces the History of Modern Terrorism
New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright joins us to discuss his latest book, The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State, which examines modern terrorism. He...
View ArticleFighting the Specter of Terror
In recent years, many of the perpetrators of terrorist violence in the United States-- the Boston marathon bombers, the shooters in San Bernardino and Orlando, and most recently, the alleged Chelsea...
View ArticleFreedom of Information
Three weeks into what’s being called the US’s biggest prison strike ever, very little information has trickled through the razor wire. We examine the challenges of reporting on prisons. Plus, a look at...
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Understanding the rise of the Islamic State
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Now the latest addition to the “NewsHour” Bookshelf.It’s a closer look at the roots of the Islamic State in the wake of 9/11 and the people affected...
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In Fallujah, ISIS is gone — but so is everything else
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to the final report in our three-part series this week, The Fight for Iraq.The coming battle to reclaim the city of Mosul from ISIS will be the...
View ArticleISIS Reacts to President-Elect Donald Trump
ISIS is fighting to keep their strongholds like Mosul in Iraq and the Syrian city of Raqqa, which the group declared its capital in 2014. But with that loss of land, ISIS is simultaneously expanding...
View ArticleThe Yemen Quagmire
Jon Finer, former director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State and chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, staff writer for The Washington Post and a...
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U.S. Weapons are Ending Up in the Hands of Al Qaeda and Other Proxy Fighters...
In 2018, eight journalists were killed in war-torn Yemen, and few western journalists have been able to report consistently from within the country.That challenge of access to a country facing famine,...
View ArticleOTM presents - Blindspot: The Road to 9/11
Every now and then we like to feature the work of our colleagues here at our producing station, WNYC. This week we want to introduce you to a new podcast a co-production of HISTORY and WNYC hosted by...
View ArticleWill Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Be a Haven for Terrorism?
America’s campaign in Afghanistan temporarily defeated Al Qaeda and unseated the Taliban government, but Al Qaeda remains a force in the region, and the speed with which the Taliban have reclaimed...
View ArticleFull Bio: bin Laden & 9/11
We continue 'Full Bio' with Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst and the author of the book The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden. Today, we discuss the 9/11 attacks, and what the Clinton and...
View ArticleCIA Assassination Unit Allegedly Run by Former Mobster Bodyguard
The U.S. military may be fighting the war on the ground, and the CIA may be collecting the intelligence and carrying out drone strikes, but for years, the people responsible for targeting and killing...
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