Muslim Advocates welcomes the Obama administration’s announcement rescinding its policy of targeting travelers from 14 primarily Muslim countries for mandatory enhanced screening. Since this misguided policy was implemented in January, Muslim Advocates had been …

Community Advisory:
New Airport Security Measures Target Muslim Travelers
President Obama stated yesterday that “we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values …

By The Economist | LONDON
AMERICA has firmed up its response to the security failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound flight with an explosive device in Amsterdam on Christmas …

Author Mark Danner has just published a book you might like to read if you are interested in national security, human rights, or American politics and foreign policy. It contains 20 years of his reporting …

Americans want, and need, to move on from the debate over torture in Iraq and Afghanistan and close this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. Prosecuting those responsible could tear apart a country at war. …

Only Obama, it seems, fails to get the message that we’re losing Afghanistan
By Robert Fisk
Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US president’s critics – indeed, …

By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and KARIN LAUB
CAIRO, Egypt – Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq — that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia …

By John Mueller
Publisher: Foreign Affairs
The Taliban and Al Qaeda may not pose enough of a threat to the United States to make a …

By Greg Bruno
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
The author discusses that the challenges that could be created by US troop withdrawals from Iraq.
As the United States turns its military focus to Afghanistan, …

By J. Scott Carpenter and Michael Rubin
Publisher: Washington Institute
In Iraq, elections are critical.
They improve security by legitimizing power relationships while allowing people to vent frustration.
In the Jan. 31 provincial elections, …

By Pascale Combelles Siegel
Publisher: Jamestown Foundation
In his second speech of the year, the Amir of the al-Qaeda-allied Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, has …

By Henri Barkey
If Turkish officials are to be believed, even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was surprised by the news that President Obama would visit Turkey at the end of his European tour this week. …

By Safiya Boucaud, JURIST
A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one …

By Faisal Kutty
Special to Arab News – As millions celebrated Canada Day on July 1, a young Canadian, Alen Okanovic, began his 8,688 km long bike ride to heighten awareness of the plight of children …