Yemen is once again at the centre of a major terrorist threat. The Yemeni government has announced the uncovering of a major Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) plot aimed at the country’s critical…
Articles on Al-Qaeda
Displaying 121 - 128 of 128 articles
For Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the recent murder of Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander Abu Basir by Islamist State of Iraq (ISI) militants must have felt like his birthday had come early. The assassination…
Abu Qatada was deported to Jordan from the UK in the early hours of Sunday morning to face terrorism charges. For the British home secretary, Theresa May, it was a triumph in the face of a judiciary which…
The French government has announced it will triple its troop deployment to the conflict-plagued state of Mali. On Monday, France’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, explained that France…
Jihadist activity has been a primary source of concern for security agencies in the Western world for longer than a decade. When contrasted against other broadly comparable countries, the threat to Australia…
The day will come when 11 September is just another date on the calendar. But that time is still some way off. Eleven years after the horrible spectacle of the World Trade Center towers being struck by…
The current situation in Afghanistan is a dramatic example of the old adage that all foreign policy is merely an extension of domestic politics. Last week, the British weekly, New Statesman, reported an…
Al Qaeda’s recent acquisition of the Somali militant group al Shabab as its newest franchise has been dismissed in some circles as a propaganda ploy, and a play for relevance by two groups on the decline…
Top contributors
-
Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
-
Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
-
Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
-
Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
-
Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
-
Research Fellow in Counterterrorism, George Washington University
-
Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
-
Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
-
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
-
Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
-
Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
-
University of Portsmouth
-
Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
-
Associate Professor in colonial and post-colonial studies, University of Birmingham
-
Sessional Academic, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University