List of Al Qaeda articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Think Again: Nuclear Weapons
President Obama’s pledge to rid the world of atomic bombs is a waste of breath. But not for the reasons you might imagine.
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Yemen's coming explosion will make today's problems seem tame.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lessons from America’s Other Counterinsurgency
The United States and Colombia have been testing out COIN strategies for years. But the major lesson for Afghanistan is a tough one: there are no clean answers in messy wars.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How al Qaeda Dupes Its Followers
Osama bin Laden's terror network has perfected the art of masking its unpopular agenda with a recruitment pitch that can hook just about anyone.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will There Always Be a Pakistan?
Fissures within the military could tear not just the army but the entire country apart. It's coming sooner than you think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No More Representatives, Please
The last thing we need is a new big shot envoy in Kabul.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Indecent Interval
Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Danger KSM Still Poses in Washington
The architect of the 9/11 attacks is headed to a criminal trial in New York -- but Obama's made a muddle of the rest of the legal picture.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Down But Not Out
Al Qaeda in Iraq threatens to spoil many of the gains made during the past two years. Here's why the organization stills poses a threat -- and what Washington and Baghdad can do about it.