By Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill
Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters, The Canadian Press has learned.
The spies …

Editorial in The New York Times
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil, as the Taliban …

TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL
Are Canadians soft on terror? In the eyes of the nation’s spy chief, Richard Fadden, there’s no doubt about it. The recently appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service fairly sang the …

By Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: Centre for Strategic and International Studies
The attack on the authority of the Pakistani state that is …

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 Hassan Abbas
ISPU Fellow
It is a globally recognized fact that a state’s police and law enforcement agencies play a critical role as the first line of defense against the threats of terrorism and insurgencies. …

By Rafia Zakaria
In its rigidity, the Talibanised society mimics an authenticity that sounds and feels truly pure and Islamic and is greedily imbibed by a population that is hungry for answers.
The scene is chilling. A …

By Eric Margolis
President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington’s pretenses that a western ‘coalition’ was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, ‘war on …